Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
De Palma directs with a nice feeling for the incongruous.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
Just the thing to see on one of those nights when you want to go to the movies for the old-fashioned fun of it.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
There is much early evidence of [De Palma's] rampant misogyny, his increasingly blatant stealings from Hitchcock, and most unforgivable of all, his clear distaste for the people he creates.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
A dead end -- the mark of a superficial stylist unable to take anything seriously, including his own work.