Critics Love Roberts in 'Duplicity'

Ray Koval (Clive Owen) and Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) lit up the screen Friday in the new release Duplicity.

The film tells the story of two professional spies that meet in Dubai in 2002. They experience a stunted love affair and don't meet again for years until they cross paths in New York. The film is full of angles, questions of trust and love.

CNN reporter Tom Charity described it as "closer in spirit to sexual role-playing shenanigans of The Thomas Crown Affair or the game-playing in Ocean's Eleven."Entertainment Weekly raved, "The quick-witted banter whipped up by Gilroy would mean little if it weren't voiced by fabulously attractive actors."

The match up of Julia Roberts and Clive Owen was also a success in the 2004 film Closer directed by Mike Nichols. Director Tony Gilroy, also the director of Michael Clayton in 2007, is famous for his wit and smartly structured scripts. Gilroy is famed for writing award winning blockblusters like the Bourne films, Armageddon, The Devil's Advocate, and Dolores Claiborne among others.