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BLACK BAG

March 12, 2025 By Leave a Comment

BLACK BAG

BLACK BAG is a scathingly brilliant take on truth, lies, and the sanctity of marriage, and the perfect vehicle for Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. A good marriage that is, such as the one enjoyed by George Woodhouse (Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Blanchett), British spies with the highest security clearance They are the perfect… Read More »

Tagged With: Britain, lie detector, lies, marriage, McGuffin, mordant humor, polygraph, spies, spy sattelite, truth

PRESENCE

January 22, 2025 By Leave a Comment

PRESENCE

Steven Soderbergh’s signature style is one of cool detachment to his characters. His films tackle people in crisis, but the tone is always one of an ersatz cinema verité witness to what is happening to them. In PRESENCE, he has channeled that aesthetic into a ghost story told from the spirit’s point of view. Literally.… Read More »

Tagged With: dysfunctional family, favoritism, grief, haunting, orange juice, overdose, passive father, POV, tracking shot

UNSANE

March 21, 2018 By Leave a Comment

UNSANE

For me, the single most disconcerting image in a Steven Soderbergh film is from CONTAGION.  It’s not a panorama of people dying from the pandemic that threatens to end civilization as we know it, instead it’s the silent, dispassionately clinical shot of Gwyneth Paltrow’s head being autopsied. There are people I know who reference the… Read More »

Tagged With: health insurance scam, horror, mental health clinic, PTSD, stalking, voluntary commitment

LOGAN LUCKY

August 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LOGAN LUCKY

Transposing the milieu from glitz to grits, Steven Soderbergh’s LOGAN LUCKY does more set an intricate heist flick in the backroads of Appalachia, it also makes a sly statement about class, culture, and our preconceived notions about those two things.   It also has something that most Soderbergh films lack for all their visual impact: heart.… Read More »

Tagged With: bartender, brothers, father-daughter, hand amputee, heist, Iraq veteran, NASCAR, prison break-out, West Virginia

INFORMANT!, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There is something poignantly human in the way that everyone in Steven Soderbergh’s INFORMANT!, comedy of corporate greed and earnest FBI investigation, so completely believes in what they want to see going right in front of their eyes.  The kicker is that the prime mover in all of this, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), is so… Read More »

CONTAGION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Steven Soderbergh begins CONTAGION with a black screen, the sound of a cough, and, when the picture comes up on screen, the caption “Day 2” in appropriately lurid red letters. The cough belongs to Gwyneth Paltrow, one of the legion of stars that shuffle through this sprawling tale of social devolution, and in a nicely… Read More »

HAYWIRE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HAYWIRE

It’s interesting that the unsmiling, kick-ass heroine of HAYWIRE, Mallory, Mal for short, doesn’t go directly to the one move uniquely efficient in taking down a male combatant. It speaks, no doubt, to her sense of honor and her belief in a fair fight. A belief that people challenge at their own risk to their… Read More »

SOLARIS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SOLARIS

In a move as audacious as it is disastrous, Steve Soderbergh has decided to push the edges of what filmmaking can be and created in SOLARIS not so much a motion picture as a still life. One that is more sleep-inducing than a warm glass of milk and a bottle of Seconal. It is remarkable… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, dreck outer space paranormal romance, George Clooney's tush, remake, Stanislav Lem

SIDE EFFECTS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The great problem with talking about Steven Soderbergh’s latest (and putatively his last) film, SIDE EFFECTS, is that it would be criminal to give away any of the fiendishly clever plot twists involved. This is an elegantly executed sleight-of-hand that hinges on something most people have never thought about: why is it, exactly, that we… Read More »

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