FILM REVIEW: The duplicity of ‘Duplicity’

Julia Roberts and Clive Owen’s battle of wits, intrigue and desire harkens to the glory days of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

By A. O. Scott / NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

How does it all end? With a flurry of surprises, and also more or less as you always suspected it would. But the answer really depends on which movie you think you’ve been watching: the one about love or the one about power; the cynical farce or the secretly sincere examination of manners and morals in the age of globalization; the cat-and-mouse or the dog-eat-dog. Not that you can necessarily tell, until the very last moment, which is which.

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