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    5

    " Choose Wisely"
    Country
    Spoken Language
    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

      plenty

    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Profanity

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

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    Description

    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.

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    Critique: 21

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    AWFJ Women on Film August 11, 2022

    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...

    New York Times April 14, 2022

    "Dual" takes a worthy idea and throws a smoke bomb in its middle, leaving the audience to squint through the haze.

    Bloody Disgusting January 23, 2022

    One woman faced with her own death sounds inherently tragic. In Stearns and Gillans' hands, it becomes a deeply funny, resonant, and authentic...

    Vox February 3, 2022

    After Yang moves slowly and quietly and then comes in like a tidal wave, exploring grief and love and memory with aching poignance.

    San Jose Mercury News April 13, 2022

    This well-written quirky series from showrunner Brian Watkins will have you hooked from the start.

    Los Angeles Times April 15, 2022

    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...

    TheWrap April 14, 2022

    Stearns first two movies earned their adoration the hard way, challenging audiences with pitch-black humor and an off-kilter tone. While "Dual" goe...

    Thrillist January 28, 2022

    Trier finds plenty to mine in Julie’s uncertainty – about her future and her desire for children – and Reinsve is sensational playi...

    indieWire January 23, 2022

    "Dual" adds a fresh sprinkle of doom to the already savage deadpan of Stearns' previous work, and bitterly crystallizes the existential anxiet...

    The Atlantic January 28, 2022

    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.

    Austin Chronicle April 14, 2022

    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...

    Observer April 20, 2022

    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...

    RogerEbert.com January 27, 2022

    Dual is never boring, but it starts to feel hollow, an experiment that doesn’t just eschew deeper meaning but pushes back against it.

    Fox 10 Phoenix January 28, 2022

    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...

    Slant Magazine January 25, 2022

    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.

    Polygon April 15, 2022

    It’s a strange and memorable film with a unique voice and a unique perspective, and that alone makes it worth seeking out.

    RogerEbert.com April 15, 2022

    The film insists on avoiding the deeper psychological and even existential implications of its own tale, implications present in the narrative but...

    Little White Lies January 27, 2022

    Potentially interesting ideas of waging a war with the self only ring hollow in a film that reads as intentionally, woefully vague.

    Variety January 23, 2022

    As opposite-of-funny as much of this sounds, "Dual" is in fact a fairly astute comedy.

    Hollywood Reporter January 23, 2022

    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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