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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 04 May 2014

Ayoade borrows Kafka's bureaucratic nightmares without the cosmic humor, David Lynch's grotesquerie without the unhinged desires, Wes Anderson's…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 27 Apr 2014

A nightmarish tale with considerable comic undertones about a nebbish who imagines life as a bon vivant…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 26 Apr 2014

It's so refreshing to see a director fully embrace a story's quirks, to dive head on into the weirdness while pulling the audience under with him…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 23 Apr 2014

If The Double is a tad too chilly dramatically for there to be much purgative punch, its unique ambience of unease and eccentricity is irresistible…

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By Stephen Kelly (41) for SFX Magazine (298) on 16 Apr 2014

It's the boldly uncompromising approach that makes The Double such enjoyably smart satire…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 08 Apr 2014

[Ayoade] starts to come into his own as a filmmaker…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 07 Apr 2014

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 06 Apr 2014

After his acclaimed drama Submarine, actor-turned-filmmaker Richard Ayoade applies his considerable visual skills to this striking blackly…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 05 Apr 2014

Ayoade fills the future-retro landscape with sounds and visions lifted from Terry Gilliam's Brazil and David Lynch's Eraserhead, with effective…

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By Ben Rawson-Jones (229) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 03 Apr 2014

If Richard Ayoade continues in this vein, we could be looking at a director to rival David Cronenberg and David Lynch during their prime…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 03 Apr 2014

A painfully funny odyssey of personal ineffectualness that is bitterly wonderful in how it revels in the decrepit horror of the everyday world…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 03 Apr 2014

It all pans out like an incredibly well-told single joke…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 02 Apr 2014

Ayoade showed with his first film, the 2011 coming-of-age comedy Submarine, that he is a director full of ideas…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 02 Apr 2014

While I am overjoyed for Ayoade that he has seen such films as Brazil, Eraserhead, The Tenant and the collected works of Aki Kaurismäki, a…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 02 Apr 2014

Stylishly directed and sharply written, this is a jet black comedy with a nightmarishly dark atmosphere, stunning sound design work and a pair…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out London (344) on 31 Mar 2014

Ayoade tips his hat to so many other filmmakers and writers that he leaves little room to consider anything other than what a good job he’s…

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By David Hughes (139) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Mar 2014

Given the obvious influences on The Double, it could have felt like a facsimile of other films…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 30 Mar 2014

Ayoade's difficult second film shows the directorial skill - and daring - of a major player, even if it can't quite escape being swallowed…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 18 Mar 2014

A dank and dour drama contrasting the woes of a sad sack loser to the triumphs of an ambitious and self-confident winner…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2014

Whatever the film's interest may be in the marginalized, writer-director Richard Ayoade never alludes to what would even be worth fighting…

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