The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Double Lover, which Mr. Ozon “freely adapted” from the Joyce Carol Oates book “Lives of the Twins,” spins its influences into a frenzy that ultimately reveals the story to be very much its own thing. And a crazy, and eventually strangely moving, thing it is. As elaborate as its visuals are, the movie is also intimate.

TheWrap by Alonso Duralde

This is the sort of thriller that constantly sideswipes you with dream sequences and hallucinations, but if you’re willing to go on Ozon’s ride, it’s an unpredictable journey.

Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty

The kind of deliriously trashy psychosexual thriller that only the French seem to be able to pull off with a straight face. It’s like "Dead Ringers" meets "Body Double" with a kinky, winking full-frontal Gallic twist.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

It’s a fantasy not of sexual satisfaction but sexual accomplishment, and perhaps no director other than Ozon would have the imagination and panache to carry it off.

Variety by Peter Debruge

Sure, it’s kinky, but Ozon is having fun with it, to the extent that the entire film rewards that fetish all moviegoers have in common — voyeurism — offering up a kind of equal-opportunity objectification.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Emily Yoshida

Ozon is doing sexual gymnastics all over his uncanny womb-based plot, and somehow it all coheres pretty seamlessly, even at its most ridiculous.

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

What gives the film its surprising coherence is not only the fluidity of Ozon's technique but also his mastery of tone, the ease with which he applies serious craft to a resolutely un-serious endeavor. The filmmaker's cackle is always audible beneath the story's glassy, deadpan surface.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Double Lover may not represent Ozon in peak form but it’s too weirdly entertaining to dismiss out-of-hand.

The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor

It’s difficult to know just how serious this is all meant to be. Then again, camp only really works when the level of intention is difficult to decipher.

The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic

The cinematic trickery on display – lurid dissolves, off-kilter juxtapositions, and bizarre dance numbers bouncing around Chloe’s brittle mindscape – compensates for the skin-deep thematics, and keep the rhythm of the film popping.

The Hollywood Reporter by Jon Frosch

Its tale of doubles, deception and desire allows Ozon to fool around with some of his favorite themes — the turbulent inner lives of complex women, the distance between appearance and reality, the essential unknowability of even our most intimate loved ones, the necessity of imagination in enduring everyday life.

Slant Magazine by Greg Cwik

Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous.

Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

There are plenty of elements to admire in Amant Double but the endless twists and revelations grow tiresome.

Screen International by Allan Hunter

There are plenty of elements to admire in Amant Double but the endless twists and revelations grow tiresome.

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

A fitfully amusing erotic thriller in which nothing is what it seems, anything could happen, and everything is at least a little ridiculous.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness.