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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Deliciously witty and entertaining A first-rate thriller, one that's likely to generate as much word-of-mouth as "Alien,'' "Carrie'' and "Psycho'' did in their time. [23 Aug 1991, Daily Notebook, p.F1] Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    If "Henry V," the first film [Branaugh] directed and starred in, caused people to compare him to Olivier, "Dead Again" will inspire comparisons to Welles and Hitchcock - and the Olivier of Hitchcock's "Rebecca." Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly |

    With its stylized black-and-white sequences and fast-paced melodramatic plot, this homage to film noir is both intense and purposely self-conscious. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Branagh has mastered the tricky high-wire act of simultaneously kidding the conventions he is being absolutely faithful to, allowing us to squeal with both fright and knowing laughter. His is a film lover's film [23 Aug 1991, Calendar, p.F1] Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Vincent Canby

    A big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety |

    Engaging film style is buoyed by an infectious sense of fun and punctuated by wild and woolly character turns. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Steve Davis

    Hopelessly muddled but doggedly entertaining. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Directing with an eye to "Rebecca," Branagh brings more mood than suspense to this apparent hommage to Hitchcock. Still, he raises no goose bumps. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    It's fun to see somebody revive the amnesia genre - how long has it been? - but the conceit quickly grows irksome. Only Thompson, who manages to be appealing in both of her roles, will likely reap much from this DOA folly. [23 Aug 1991, Life, p.4D] Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    A two-hour search for a pulse... A miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of romance when you don't give it space to breathe. Read full review

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