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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Duplex wants you to hurt when you laugh, but the pain and guilt are minor. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A premise in search of a story. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: If you want to see Danny DeVito do good work, see him in Anything Else right now, the Woody Allen movie. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Duplex has a faint reek of slice-and-dice desperation, as if everyone involved realized too late that they'd hitched themselves to a turkey. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: This movie doesn't know its own limits. It's stylish, it's sort of smart, it's full of misplaced talent. But it's not funny enough, and maybe, in a way, not dark enough either. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Sometimes Mr. DeVito has gone too far, pushing black humor unnervingly close to the abyss of ultimate darkness. But the unpleasantness in Duplex is handled deftly enough to keep the audience's queasiness from turning into disgust. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Trying to kill a little old lady never looked so difficult -- or so much fun. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A toothless real-estate farce. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: This is one Duplex that's best left until it comes up for rent. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: [A] grossly funny black comedy. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The building materials are top quality ... but the workmanship is shoddy. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Unfunny and misguided, Duplex deserves a wrecking crew. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Before collapsing into an untidy heap of over-the-top gross-outs and cartoon violence, this acidic comedy, scripted by Larry Doyle and directed by Danny DeVito, gets surprising mileage from its creaky, one- joke premise. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Duplex confirms the suspicion among many of us that today's mainstream movies are simply vehicles for selling other things -- in this case, the cause of New York City landlords. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It'd make a great first-date movie for Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley. But who else would actually see this situation as comic? Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Definitely better than DeVito's last movie, the disastrous Death to Smoochy. Alas, it's not nearly as good as his two films from which it takes its obvious inspiration: The War of the Roses and Throw Momma From the Train. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Too much contrivance and not enough plausibility. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Duplex draws out the worst in us, making us laugh even when we know we shouldn't. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Funny despite rickety gags. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's basically a one-joke movie, but DeVito manages to make the joke hold up. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Though accurate to a certain kind of sandwich-generation experience, Duplex is not terribly funny. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If there is one positive thing about Duplex, and saying this requires a huge amount of charity, it's the performance by little known Eileen Essel, who musters whatever grace and genuine humour this sad little picture can manage. Read more
Time Out: The material is capably handled by director DeVito and lifted by Stiller, a dab hand at physical comedy who also exhibits some onscreen chemistry with Barrymore. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Duplex has its wacky, funny moments, but it misses the mark of a clever, dark comedy. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: This numbing barrage of demolition humor scores only a modest laugh count. Read more
Ed Park, Village Voice: Essell is brightly malevolent, and Stiller is perfect as the well-meaning homeowner. Read more