Dead Again [DVD]

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars alongside then-wife Emma Thompson in this slick neo-noir mystery where past lives bleed into the present. A Los Angeles PI takes on the case of an amnesiac woman haunted by nightmares of a 1940s murder—a pianist killed by her husband in a jealous rage. As hypnotic regression sessions pull them deeper into the past, the boundaries between then and now dissolve, and the detective realizes he might be more connected to this decades-old crime than he ever imagined. Branagh leans hard into Hitchcockian atmosphere—swooning cameras, shadows, and a thriller structure that coils back on itself. Thompson is magnetic in a dual role, and Andy Garcia anchors the mystery with quiet menace. It's stylish, twisty, and unapologetically theatrical—a noir for people who like their mysteries with a supernatural edge and a dash of karmic reckoning. IMDb: 6.8/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 81% | Metacritic: 66/100 Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 1 win & 6 nominations total.