Bubble is an intriguing work for other reasons, though: in some ways, Soderbergh takes us back to his iconic debut, sex, lies and videotape, where realism was the film's most powerful weapon.
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04/11/08
Bubble (2006)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:71
Rotten:29
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: This rigorously stripped down, seemingly mundane little film still manages to be engrossing and creepy.
Synopsis: With BUBBLE, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh proves that one doesn't need a huge Hollywood budget and larger-than-life actors to craft an affecting motion picture. Following his... [More]
Starring: Debbie Doebereiner, Misty Dawn Wilkins, Omar Cowan, Laurie Lee
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Bubble
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03/30/07
Top CriticBoth self-sufficient and utterly incomplete
08/30/09
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04/23/09
Soderbergh artlessly presents America's concealed poverty that drives the paltry ambitions of many of its citizens.
04/16/09
"Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos.
04/19/08
Appears at first glance to be either a violent attack on the white working poor, or not aggressive enough in its critique of the cultural degradation of that social class.
02/01/08
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07/14/07
Not quite Hitchcock, but a satisfying flick, and proof positive that you don't need a big budget or A-list talent to make a decent whodunit.
05/20/07
Life and death among the working poor. Critics hated it because it lacked entertainment value. That's more of a condemnation of them than the film.
02/04/07
Bubble is best considered as a failed-but-occasionally-nifty experiment.
11/27/06
The local atmosphere, filmed on the Ohio-West Virginia border, is rigorously authentic and so is the cast, none of whose members have acted before.
10/14/06
The film is called Bubble, but it represents the first time in ages Steven Soderbergh has worked outside of his personal territory.
09/06/06
Versatile director Steven Soderbergh leaves the bright lights of Las Vegas far behind for this quiet, stark tale of friendship and murder in a small Midwestern town.
09/01/06
Fascinante estudo de personagens, Bubble não é um filme marcado por ações, mas por sutilezas.
07/06/06
I was blown away.
06/24/06
Soderbergh simply displays ordinary people as they are and challenges us to determine why smiles become rare blips on the blue-collar radar.
05/04/06
... A great film by any standard.
03/04/06
There is an admirable rigor to Soderbergh's technique here, but it leads to a generally unsatisfying experience.
02/27/06
Sans être son effort le plus créatif à ce jour, Bubble demeure une entrée courageuse dans la filmographie d'un réalisateur si bien ancré dans le paysage hollywoodien.
02/24/06
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