Steven Soderbergh

Soderbergh’s Soggy Casino Caper Could Use a Few More Dames

Inside jokers: Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney in <i>Ocean’s 13</i>.
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Inside jokers: Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney in Ocean’s 13.

Clooney is skinny and Pitt is pulchritudinous! But they bring too much man-love to the unnecessary Ocean’s three-quel.  read more »

The Little Guy Makes It Big! A Critic’s Recycled Storyline

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In 1989, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival gave us the premiere of a seductive low-budge  read more »

Three Directors Look for Eros-The Search, Seductively Obscure

More auteurist than erotic, Eros consists of three short films directed by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Sode  read more »

The Hours Will Win Awards By More Than a Schnozz

Stephen Daldry's The Hours , from the screenplay by David Hare, based on the novel by Michael Cunnin  read more »

Mooning Clooney Can't Save Solaris

As bad movies go, a dismal catastrophe called Solaris can't go away fast enough to suit me.  read more »

The New Ship of Fools

Hollywood is the new Ship of Fools, and with a boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly  read more »

Soderbergh's Hollywood-Through Clouded Windows

Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal , from a screenplay by Coleman Hough, makes me suspect sadly that t  read more »

Reheated Rat Pack

Big is not always good, but with Ocean's Eleven , big is all there is: big budget, big noise, big co  read more »

An Entire Island Finds Mercy Waiting for a Guillotine

Petrice Leconte's TheWidow of Saint-Pierre , from a screenplay by Claude Faraldo, has been  read more »

Little, Brown Gets Littler

George Editor Caught in Traffic The new year saw the end of George, the late John Kennedy Jr.'s poli  read more »

My 2000 Picks: Douglas, Zellweger, Count on Me

People have been asking me when I'm going to publish my 10-best list for the movie year 2000, and I'  read more »

Pretty Boys In a Pretty Film

In a movie year marked for demolition by the blatant consistency of its mediocrity, a few year-end p  read more »

Soderbergh, on Border Patrol, Dissects the Drug Economy

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic , from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, was inspired by a British Channel  read more »

Soderbergh, on Border Patrol, Dissects the Drug Economy

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic , from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, was inspired by a British Channel  read more »