What a delight to see a clever spy caper where the stakes are not some microchip containing information that will save (or end, depending on who has it) the world, but instead are nothing more than the industrial secrets of companies that make cosmetics and soaps! Clive Owen and Julia Roberts play Ray and Claire, ex-MI6 and ex-CIA agents who decide to go private so that they can game some capitalists and walk away rich. Threading through the surprisingly intricate espionage plot is their prickly relationship that is actually built on mutual mistrust. As former spies, it is in their nature not to trust anyone. And so naturally they cannot trust each other, but each also understands the other’s mistrust and therefore forgives, and even embraces, it. Tony Gilroy wrote and directed the movie, which establishes its tone in the opening credits with a hilarious silent slow-motion shouting and wrestling match between the rival CEOs played by Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson. It has the playfulness and intricacy of the Ocean’s 11 movies, but feels less contrived if for no other reason than it has only one Hollywood superstar. Duplicity is indubitably enjoyable.