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Blu-Ray Review: Clever, Entertaining ‘Duplicity’ Deserves Wider Audience

Duplicity

CHICAGO – In my role as a film critic, I’m always hearing complaints about the lack of films aimed at adults. It’s true that most of what Hollywood delivers is designed to please teenagers. But can you blame them when a great adult comedy like “Duplicity” comes out and hardly anyone goes to see it? Now on Blu-Ray, the Clive Owen and Julia Roberts film from the man who made “Michael Clayton” deserves to find the audience that missed it in theaters.

Julia Roberts, Clive Owen Shine in Tony Gilroy’s Clever ‘Duplicity’

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CHICAGO – Writer/director Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton”) uses words the same way horror movie directors use blood or action movie auteurs use bullets.

Slideshow: 18-Image Gallery From Tony Gilroy’s ‘Duplicity’ With Clive Owen, Julia Roberts

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Ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and former MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) are spies-turned-corporate operatives in the midst of a clandestine love affair.

CHICAGO – This 18-image slideshow contains the press images for Universal’s “Duplicity,” starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, and Paul Giamatti. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, the film opens on Friday, March 20th, 2009.

Blu-Ray Round Up, Feb. 10, 2009: ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Street Fighter,’ ‘Tales From the Darkside’

Tales From the Darkside

CHICAGO – The Round-Up is in flashback mode this week. Enter our time machine and travel back to an era when an anthology series created by the legendary George A. Romero could actually get a network time slot, Jean-Claude Van Damme was still a star, and Julia Roberts wasn’t quite one yet.

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