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Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a luke-warm review, calling it " a big, convoluted, entertainingly dizzy romantic mystery melodrama " and concluding, " Dead Again is eventually a lot simpler than it pretends to be.

The explanation of the mystery is a rather commonplace letdown, but probably nothing short of mass murder could successfully top the baroque buildup.

In this way, too, the film is faithful to its antecedents, while still being a lot of fun.