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Duplicity

2009

Tony Gilroy

Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Carrie Preston, Paul Giamatti ...

5.2

8,523

Thriller. Mystery. Romance A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job. CIA officer Claire Stenwick and MI6 agent Ray Koval have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first. For their employers—industry titan ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"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'."	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Glossy look at corporate espionage makes for cerebral more than emotional fun. (...) The movie is fun, with plenty of intrigue and suspense that will have audiences clutching at their arm rests."	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"The chemical combustion just isn’t there between Julia and Clive, and you can’t help wondering if Gilroy wrote this with George Clooney in mind. Still, a glamorous, diverting escapade (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Effervescent espionage with two irresistible forces (...) 'Duplicity' is superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Entertaining (...) The fun is in watching Roberts and Owen fencing with dialogue, keeping straight faces, trying to read each other's minds (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The problem is that though everything looks slick, the film gets pretty dull halfway through and Owen and Roberts don't for a moment look as if they are really in love (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"Enormously entertaining (...) A shame, then, that Gilroy couldn’t have found a way to make us care about these characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Dan Kois The Washington Post	"A pleasant big-studio diversion, a screwball romance with beautiful movie stars (...) It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Roberts laugh"	POS
United States	Scott Collura IGN	"The real star, which gives the two their power of course, is Gilroy's snappy, screwball-comedy-esque dialogue and scripting."	POS

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