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Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>Duplicity</em> Vs. <em>I Love You, Man</em>

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John Del Signore

Published Mar 20, 2009

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Duplicity, the new movie from writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as former CIA agents who enter the private sector to work for a mysterious conglomerate run by Paul Giamatti. Nathan Rabin at The Onion writes, "Too clever by half, Duplicity is ingeniously plotted and zestily scored, but it’s never fast or funny enough to make audiences forget they’re watching pragmatic schemers who care about nothing but money. This champagne cocktail of a film runs out of fizz around the halfway mark. For a sexy comedy that tries and fails to recapture the sensual smarts of vintage screwball fare, Duplicity is regrettably short on sex and comedy."And the female lead in Duplicity calls for the kind of atomic, glow-in-the-dark, Rita Hayworth-in-Gilda sexuality that is most assuredly out of Roberts’s range. Angelina Jolie effortlessly conjures up that kind of fire-breathing sexiness. Roberts? Not so much."

 

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Click through the film stills above for more details and reviews of this weekend's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include I Love You, Man, Knowing, Sin Nombre, The Great Buck Howard, Skills Like This , Valentino: The Last Emperor, Hunger, The Daytrippers, The Fall, and Videodrome.

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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