Originally published August 25, 2009 at 12:11 AM | Page modified August 25, 2009 at 4:13 AM

'Duplicity,' 'Sunshine Cleaning' released

Today's new DVD releases involve crime ("Duplicity") and crime scenes ("Sunshine Cleaning").

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Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reconnect in "Duplicity," a Tony Gilroy movie about spies who turn corporate executives.

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Today's new DVD releases involve crime ("Duplicity") and crime scenes ("Sunshine Cleaning"). Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, search the movie title at seattletimes.com).

3.5 stars "Duplicity" (PG-13): Clive Owen and Julia Roberts personify movie-star glamour as spies-turned-corporate operatives in Tony Gilroy's romantic espionage caper.

3 stars "Adventureland" (R): A new college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) reluctantly takes a summer job at an amusement park in this comedy co-starring Kristen "Twilight" Stewart.

3 stars "Goodbye Solo" (not rated; for mature audiences): Ramin Bahrani's enigmatic tale concerns a Senegalese taxi driver (Souleymane Sy Savane) who picks up a cranky Southerner (Red West) in North Carolina.

3 stars "Sunshine Cleaning" (R): Amy Adams and Emily Blunt pair up as sisters who launch a crime-scene cleaning business.

2 stars "Fighting" (PG-13): Channing Tatum plays a homeless Manhattan man who becomes an underground street fighter under the management of a hustler (Terrence Howard).

2 stars "Rudo y Cursi" (R): Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal star as feuding brothers in this rowdy Mexican soccer comedy. In Spanish with English subtitles.

1 stars "The Informers" (R): Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke are part of Gregor Jordan's ensemble drama set in 1983 Los Angeles, where everybody is beautiful, deadpan and doomed.