Soderbergh has given us a boutique space picture - smallish but classy with a translucent glow, accented in chrome, white and blue and touched up with crystalline surfaces.
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03/07/03
Solaris (2002)
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Reviews Counted:195
Fresh:126
Rotten:69
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Slow-moving, cerebral, and ambiguous, Solaris is not a movie for everyone, but it offers intriguing issues to ponder.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $14,780,776
Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh, whose eclectic resume includes the Academy Award(R)-winning drama "Traffic" as well as last year's ensemble caper "Ocean's Eleven," now brings his unique vision to SOLARIS, a... [More]
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Solaris
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA moody, multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery, Solaris is a thought-provoking, haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate.
03/08/03
Top CriticFinely crafted and executed, this is one of those rare movies that will get you talking after it's over.
11/27/02
Visually astonishing and thoroughly admirable.
11/27/02
I prefer Soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over Tarkovsky's mostly male, mostly patriarchal debating societies.
12/19/02
Many will justifiably find [it] a heady experience akin to 90 minutes of watching paint dry. Others will see that paint forming something close to a masterpiece.
01/21/05
...there you are, keenly aware that if you were intellectual enough, this would be seriously exciting entertainment. But since something in your artistic-merit decoder isn't functioning properly, you’re checking your watch
11/27/02
No film this acutely self-aware has fallen victim to unjust contempt so widespread since Last Action Hero.
06/17/03
It is, all at once, exhilarating, frustrating, cryptic and wise.
11/28/02
As written by director Steven Soderbergh, Solaris comes across as one of those movies filled with cryptic dialogue that skirts around the story, forcing viewers to use their imaginations to fill in the blanks.
11/26/02
Always a probing, intuitive filmmaker, Soderbergh, after some floundering attempts in the past, finally gets one of his cinematic experiments right.
11/29/02
If George Clooney gives the best performance of his career here, he is probably still too facile for the material, his good looks and now instinctive charisma rubbing against the grain of an emotionally devastated character.
12/25/02
Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film. What's left is a rich stew of longing.
11/26/02
Soderbergh has leaned on his cast to supply an involving human element, and the fierce Clooney and vital Natascha McElhone, as his wife, deliver.
11/26/02
Soderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety.
11/27/02
Top CriticSolaris is a technically accomplished film but with a focus so narrow and a story so seemingly slight that it will probably bore most audiences.
12/05/02
fascinating, despite its flaws
03/04/06
Love it or hate it, however, there’s no question this is a seriously intended work by a major American filmmaker.
01/06/04
This science fiction, psychological drama will make you think, but might also make you sleep as well.
11/28/02
A solemn, splintered meditation on lost love: a movie about personal space, in space.
11/28/02
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