That Gilroy refuses to limit the story to just one focus in desire for something more intricate makes his film complex while also being a light, entertaining treat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 2, 2023

Tries to be too smart for its own good.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Duplicity revisits the world of corporate skulduggery Gilroy explored in Michael Clayton, and throws in a spot of Bourne spycraft, but its mood is far far lighter than those films' sweaty intensity and muscular action.

| Nov 21, 2020

An enjoyable film, an intelligent film, a stylish film, and a satisfying film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

From the outset, this twisty, turny and openly deceitful spy mystery is determined to confound and confuse the viewer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2020

A nice, pleasant and thoroughly entertaining antidote to typical multiplex fare

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Paired with Clive Owen and working with the creator of Michael Clayton -- Tony Gilroy -- Roberts shines in this complex and intelligent thriller.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2019

The trouble is that Gilroy quickly strands what should have been a smart high concept thriller somewhere between a popcorn movie and a brooding paranoia thriller. So, the only person Gilroy ends up conning is himself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Writer-director Tony Gilroy loads the fun script with complex double-crosses, but the payoff lacks the righteous punch of his previous film, "Michael Clayton."

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 18, 2018

Not highly recommended at all.

| Original Score: D | Sep 12, 2017

You simply haven't had this much fun at the multiplex in a long, long time.

| Oct 7, 2015

Tony Gilroy's directorial follow up to the phenomenal Michael Clayton is an impressive addition to his short but impressive filmography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2014

I'm sure if I saw it a second time, I'd find the little hints Gilroy plants throughout particularly delicious. But why bother? It didn't exactly grab me by the neck the first time.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 22, 2013

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are reunited for the first time since Closer, and they're a messed up couple again. But this time they're secret agents, which is cooler.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2011

When it comes to sorting out where we stand with someone, we're all spies. Tony Gilroy realizes that romance done right involves invigorating risk, and "Duplicity" offers a bracing, beguiling shell game of behavior to complement the light shenanigans.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Duplicity derives its juice not only from Gilroy's direction but from the potent and sparkling pairing of Roberts and Owen. They match, they fit.

| Jul 6, 2010

The artistic result is something quite cold, mechanical, perfunctory, unmoving, something done in bad faith.

| Jul 6, 2010

A brain-bending, sleekly twisted puzzle.

| Jul 6, 2010

It might be saying something that I preferred to see [Giamatti and Wilkinson] in action than the two actual leads of the film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 6, 2009

Duplicity features the sort of story screenwriters dream of crafting in order to show off their aptitude.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009