Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... * * * * ½ R. 93 minutes. Dean Rodgers – Jesse Eisenberg — plays two roles in “The Double”: That of timid Simon James and a mysterious but cool newcomer, ...

Richard Ayoade branches out from 'Submarine' with this dark and heady dystopian-noir cocktail adapted from Dostoevsky's novella. Eisenberg is ideally cast as Simon James, a socially awkward, ...

What happens when you mix Fyodor Dostoevsky with the mad genius mind of comedian and filmmaker Richard Ayoade, co-writer Avi Korine, and the suave of Jesse Eisenberg? We get The Double, this funky ...

Jesse Eisenberg plays two roles in “The Double”: That of timid Simon James and a mysterious but cool newcomer, James Simon, who looks exactly like Simon. (Dean Rodgers) The third in a string of movies ...

Set in a futuristic society of noirish government zombies slaving away in bleak bureaucratic bunkers for offices, it’s more a satire of Godard’s Alphaville than a menace designed for the Syfy channel.

“The Double” is based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but there’s a lot more than the sensibilities of the Russian literary giant hanging over this grimly amusing picture. British director and ...

As a teenager, the novelist Joshua Cohen loved Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Double for its eerie conceit, in which a man encounters a stranger who looks exactly like himself. But Cohen returns to ...

Editor’s Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of May’s Indie Film Month. This review was originally published during the 2013 Toronto ...