2003 · comedy
Duplex
Directed by Danny DeVito1h 29m2003
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Our read: Duplex (2003) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
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How Duplex feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want mean-spirited suburban comedy that keeps escalating past comfortable limits.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot stomach jokes about harming a sweet old upstairs neighbor tonight.
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