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: Dramas
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 rotten 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 CriticThe liveliest moments in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris belong to Jeremy Davies' hands.
11/28/02
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11/26/02
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.
04/05/03
If you're going to make a 'thinking man's' film that alienates the public at large, then at least have the foresight to avoid amateurish dialogue delivered by feeble performances.
01/13/03
There’s no emotional pulse to Solaris. With an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting, Soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff.
12/02/02
We split on this one, but both agree it was pretty to watch.
11/27/02
Why Steven Soderbergh and his producers (who include James Cameron) wanted to try their hands at it is a mystery. And viewing the hollow result doesn’t shed any light on that mystery.
12/16/02
This much random psychobabble hasn't flattened a movie this badly since Kirk found "God" at the center of the galaxy in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
11/26/02
Solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that Soderbergh's best films, "Erin Brockovich," "Out of Sight" and "Ocean's Eleven," never were.
12/06/02
Although impeccably made, the film is a slow and demanding work that firmly resists almost all of the pleasures of the sci-fi genre.
11/23/02
...though Soderbergh's script does have some conceptual weight, it is completely dissonant with his trite direction.
12/02/02
Although it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result is a movie that pretty much lies dead on the screen for an hour and a half.
11/27/02
Top CriticBased on a film that was based on a book, the third generation of this tale has the pallor of a smudged photocopy of an idea that has been revived without being re-imagined.
11/26/02
Stephen Soderbergh takes Full Frontal into the stratosphere with Solaris, a prolonged grief counseling session with a minimalist sci-fi backdrop.
11/20/02
Solaris fades to a less than satisfying conclusion, where its blending of space, time, reality, remorse, redemption, and George Clooney's naked butt might even have Albert Einstein pinching himself to see if he's still with us.
12/25/02
Solaris volleys between genius and garbage for the first half an hour then the odious reality of where we are heading becomes sadly clear.
11/29/02
It tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did.
11/30/02
While there are some tremendous performances here, Davis is a real hoot, nothing all that much happens.
11/27/02
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