Julia Roberts and Clive Owen steamed up the screen in CLOSER, and they're set to do it again with this thriller from Oscar nominee Tony Gilroy (MICHAEL CLAYTON). In DUPLICITY, Roberts and Owen play secret lovers who have given up their lives as spies to work for major corporations. Both want to get an innovative formula for their respective (and rival) companies that will earn the winner's employer millions. DUPLICITY also costars Oscar nominees Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti as the leaders of the corporations.
Review 1:
"The movie is fun, with plenty of intrigue and suspense that will have audiences clutching at their arm rests....Gilroy is truly one of Hollywood's best filmmakers when it comes to story. He can create strong characters and breathtaking situations that throw off extreme tension."
Source: Hollywood Reporter
03/16/2009
Review 2:
"An ultra-sophisticated love story between two corporate spies with pronounced mutual trust issues, DUPLICITY is a brainy, non-violent MR. AND MRS. SMITH....Smart, droll and dazzling to look at and listen to..."
Source: Variety
03/16/2009
Review 3:
"[A] brainy lark....It's risky, high-stakes madness involving the top floor-dwelling heads of rival companies....With smart writing delivered by an in-synch quartet..."
Source: USA Today
03/20/2009
Review 4:
"[A] sleek, dizzying entertainment....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."
Source: Los Angeles Times
03/20/2009
Review 5:
"Gilroy's articulate script is a stylish structure engineered to support sly double crosses, fake-outs, and gotchas....[With] Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode....It is an undeniable thrill to see her again -- amazingly, naturally, inimitably starry as ever..." -- Grade:B
Source: Entertainment Weekly
03/27/2009
Review 6:
3 stars out of 4 -- "DUPLICITY is entertaining....The fun is in watching Roberts and Owen fencing with dialogue, keeping straight faces, trying to read each other's minds."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
03/18/2009
Review 7:
"DUPLICITY is a pleasant big-studio diversion, a screwball romance with beautiful movie stars set in gorgeous hotel rooms, deluxe office spaces and corporate jets. It's smart..."
Source: Washington Post
03/20/2009
Review 8:
"An ultra-sophisticated love story between two corporate spies with pronounced mutual distrust issues, DUPLICITY is a brainy, non-violent MR. AND MRS. SMITH....Smart, droll and dazzling to look at and listen to..."
Source: Variety
03/19/2009
Review 9:
"This is only Gilroy's second film in the director's chair, which makes the smart dialog and superstar cast even more impressive."
Source: Premiere
03/19/2009
Review 10:
"[E]legant, witty, suspenseful, glamorous, and briskly entertaining..."
Source: A.V. Club
08/26/2009
Review 11:
"[I]t's Roberts and Owen who hold focus....You're in for bright mischief with a dark streak that runs down to its core. Gilroy and his stars make it elegant fun to be fooled..."
Source: Rolling Stone
04/02/2009
Review 12:
"Its densely coiled plot and splintered chronology reveal a cascade of familiar genres and styles....DUPLICITY is superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time
Source: New York Times
03/20/2009