Duplicity (2009) Critic Reviews
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Superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time.Read the full review
A throwback to the days of old-school caper movies like "To Catch a Thief," Duplicity is just the kind of sophisticated amusement you would expect from filmmaker Tony Gilroy.Read the full review
Smart, droll and dazzling to look at and listen to, writer-director Tony Gilroy's effervescent, intricately plotted puzzler proves in every way superior to his 2007 success "Michael Clayton."Read the full review
So with its smart writing delivered by an in-synch quartet, savor Duplicity as the ideal spring gift.Read the full review
It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Julia Roberts laugh, if just once.Read the full review
The movie is fun, with plenty of intrigue and suspense that will have audiences clutching at their arm rests.Read the full review
The movie resembles Mad magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" series, elevated to labyrinthine levels of complexity.Read the full review
Duplicity so thoroughly equates sex and money that, in a manner apt for a recession, the audience is rewired when it's over. You don't care whether they love each other. You just want to see them paid.Read the full review
Duplicity doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode.Read the full review
There are so many leaps back and forth in time, so many twists and countertwists and double fake-outs, that we keep losing track of who (including ourselves) is supposed to know what when.Read the full review
