#8. DUPLICITY
I still remember the range of emotions Tom Wilkinson tapped into for his lead perf in Todd Field’s In the Bedroom — and it’s his pinch hitting stint in Michael Clayton that reminded cinephiles just has good the Brit thesp is. Tony Gilroy naturally found a spot for him in the corporate spy comedy Duplicity and when the cat and mouse game between Owen and Roberts felt contrived, we could count on the actor to indulge in his own game of charades. Loved the intro, slo-mo confrontation between Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti which I relate to those epic battles between mountain rams we find on the nature channel.
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