If the medical drama leverages life-and-death stakes to wash viewers in emotion—those great, bathetic waves of romantic agony and release—Soderbergh refurbishes it into a delivery system for sensation. Read More
Full Frontal’s constant and compulsive yanking the rug out from under the narrative isn’t just a formal game—it’s an attempt at identifying and resisting the tyranny of false stories. Read More
There's a deftness to Ocean's Eleven that feels magical—of all the material for adults that I consumed a little too early, this was the only one that secretly felt like it was for kids. Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight is a heist story, a sexy potboiler, a noir rom-com that resurrects and perfects the lost art of cinematic sexual tension. Read More
Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh each adapted Stanislaw Lem's source novel into fascinating films, full of expressionistic color choices. Read More