Gets old fast, and the pay-off disappoints.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2010

This numbing barrage of demolition humor scores only a modest laugh count.

| Jul 22, 2008

The material is capably handled by director DeVito and lifted by Stiller, a dab hand at physical comedy who also exhibits some onscreen chemistry with Barrymore.

| Jan 26, 2006

Barrymore wanders through scenes as if she has trouble remembering what day it is.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 13, 2004

Call it a fixer-upper with potential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2003

Essell is brightly malevolent, and Stiller is perfect as the well-meaning homeowner.

| Sep 30, 2003

One of the most unnerving slapstick extravaganzas I've ever seen.

| Sep 29, 2003

If you want to see Danny DeVito do good work, see him in Anything Else right now, the Woody Allen movie.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2003

Duplex draws out the worst in us, making us laugh even when we know we shouldn't.

| Sep 28, 2003

I knew what was going to happen each step of the way up until the very end, the hoped-for surprise conclusion nothing to call home about.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2003

It doesn't take long before you want to, well, just move out and leave these characters in their rent-controlled limbo.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2003

Duplex has its wacky, funny moments, but it misses the mark of a clever, dark comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2003

If there is one positive thing about Duplex, and saying this requires a huge amount of charity, it's the performance by little known Eileen Essel, who musters whatever grace and genuine humour this sad little picture can manage.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 26, 2003

Duplex has a faint reek of slice-and-dice desperation, as if everyone involved realized too late that they'd hitched themselves to a turkey.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 26, 2003

Funny despite rickety gags.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2003

Duplex confirms the suspicion among many of us that today's mainstream movies are simply vehicles for selling other things -- in this case, the cause of New York City landlords.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 26, 2003

One real-estate deal you should walk away from.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 26, 2003

Definitely better than DeVito's last movie, the disastrous Death to Smoochy. Alas, it's not nearly as good as his two films from which it takes its obvious inspiration: The War of the Roses and Throw Momma From the Train.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2003

[A] grossly funny black comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 26, 2003

Though accurate to a certain kind of sandwich-generation experience, Duplex is not terribly funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2003