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Dual
(2021)5
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| Spoken Language | english |
| Runtime | 1 hr 34 min |
| Budget | $4 500 000 |
| Premiere: World | $425 909 March 18, 2022 |
| USA | $185 212 |
| Other countries | $240 697 |
| Box Office – Budget | – $4 074 091 |
| Premiere: USA | $185 212 April 15, 2022 |
| first weekend | $118 254 |
| theaters | 157 |
| rollout | 261 days |
| Digital: World | May 19, 2022 |
| Parental Advisory | Violence & Gore, Frightening & Intense Scenes, Profanity, ... |
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A woman opts for a cloning procedure after she receives a terminal diagnosis but when she recovers her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail, leading to a court-mandated duel to the death.Сast and Crew
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For those of us for whom Stearns long ago won over, Dual is a satisfying ride that – while wandering into generic territory that is relatively...
"Dual" takes a worthy idea and throws a smoke bomb in its middle, leaving the audience to squint through the haze.
One woman faced with her own death sounds inherently tragic. In Stearns and Gillans' hands, it becomes a deeply funny, resonant, and authentic...
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A glimpse inside a filmmaker’s idea lab is not necessarily the same thing as a film, which puts Riley Stearns’ low-key future satire "Dual" in...
Stearns first two movies earned their adoration the hard way, challenging audiences with pitch-black humor and an off-kilter tone. While "Dual" goe...
Trier finds plenty to mine in Julie’s uncertainty – about her future and her desire for children – and Reinsve is sensational playi...
"Dual" adds a fresh sprinkle of doom to the already savage deadpan of Stearns' previous work, and bitterly crystallizes the existential anxiet...
The final act comes with perhaps too many surprises on the menu, but the film is so much fun that I didn’t mind the extra courses.
Stearns’ film is less interested in examining the complexities of our duality than it is with displaying our societal follies with an irony and dis...
It has nothing new or insightful to add to the discourse, and instead seems comfortable recycling jokes that weren’t funny when we first encountere...
Dual is never boring, but it starts to feel hollow, an experiment that doesn’t just eschew deeper meaning but pushes back against it.
There’s a solid 45 minutes of great bone-dry social satire in the middle … but a too-slow start and an anticlimactic ending muddle the e...
Riley Stearns’s film consistently tickles the funny bone, even when it comes at the expense of psychological nuance.
To my mind, the movie needs to be entertaining on its own. These movies are not – they’re displays of wizardry, if you forgive the pun.
It’s a strange and memorable film with a unique voice and a unique perspective, and that alone makes it worth seeking out.
The film insists on avoiding the deeper psychological and even existential implications of its own tale, implications present in the narrative but...
Potentially interesting ideas of waging a war with the self only ring hollow in a film that reads as intentionally, woefully vague.
As opposite-of-funny as much of this sounds, "Dual" is in fact a fairly astute comedy.
Stearns' third feature is his least satisfying so far; as visually drab as its predecessors, it has more difficulty mining its off-kilter aesthetic...
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Karen Gillan’s aloof acting fits in perfectly with Riley Stearns' weird-movie signature style. The film will not surprise and delight those familiar with his work. Deceived by marketers and waiting for a thriller in the spirit of the "Hunger Games" – will disappoint. Cool dark tragicomedy!
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Morally cruel black dramedy. I loved the clone setting, the heroine’s struggle for her life on two levels, and, of course, the cold-blooded third act. The last frame is the perfect metaphor for the ending. Karma is a bitch!
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The idea is ok, but it’s very boring sci-fi, I wouldn’t want a double for myself)
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Wow! A strong drama about the complexity of the consequences of the decisions made by the clone. Budget fiction is often made with a focus on the script to keep it entertaining. This film is one of those.
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Too bad I missed it on the big screen. Because of the cover and the title, I thought it was some fantastic second-rate nonsense. And it turned out to be a very cool thriller: cynical, ironic, surreal. Thank you for bringing the film to my attention. I liked it very much.
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