Disclaimer: any film featuring both Brian Cox and Udo Kier automatically earns a recommendation. Three years have passed, and just when Sam (Zach Avery) believes he’d come to terms with the shooting of his late girlfriend (Samara Weaving), her doppelgänger — give or take a blonde dye job — appears, writ large across the screen of his local Parisian multiplex. An investigative trip to Hollywood is in order, if for no other reason than to put an end to his friends’ questions about his sanity. For a counterfeit Hitchcock, the vertiginous twist halfway through the picture is more intricate than anticipated. And in the role of Kat — Sam’s high school classmate-turned-publicist — Carly Chaikin renews her scenes with a sense of buoyant candor that the generally unendurable Avery can’t touch. Add to that a dreadful score and a pair of filmmakers, Colin Krisel and James Krisel, who fail to take advantage of their ingenious twist, and what’s left is indeed a very mixed bag. (2020) — Scott Marks
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