Duplicity (2009)
Mar. 20th, 2009 06:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Duplicity, with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as opposing players; the movie, directed by Tony Gilroy, opens on Friday nationwide.
March 20, 2009
Effervescent Espionage With Two Irresistible Forces
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 20, 2009
“Duplicity”: the title suggests something with two sides, but the film itself, the second (after “Michael Clayton”) written and directed by Tony Gilroy, has many more layers and facets. Its densely coiled plot and splintered chronology reveal a cascade of familiar genres and styles. It’s a caper movie, a love story — with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, no less — an extra-dry corporate satire. However you describe it, “Duplicity” is superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time. More
