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 source; 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 CriticA movie with little joy, no oomph, and paced so agonizingly slow that I fought a constant battle against nodding off.
12/17/02
Solaris light - shorter, more focused, more accessible, sweeter.
10/15/03
The movie never takes the easy road. It dares you to think about issues that are hard to wrap your mind around. I appreciate a movie that intellectually engages me as much as this one did.
12/01/02
fascinating, despite its flaws
03/04/06
Like Kubrick, Soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way.
11/27/02
It is, all at once, exhilarating, frustrating, cryptic and wise.
11/28/02
...it is not difficult to imagine people being frustrated by this movie, in the same way many people were frustrated by Kubrick’s monolith in 2001.
11/22/02
A hushed, haunted tone poem about love and loss.
11/29/02
A surprisingly dull adaptation of the classic 1961 science-fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem.
11/25/02
A mysterious and powerful movie, much like the strange planet at the far reaches of the universe for which it is named.
12/08/02
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
One of the finest science fiction films since 2001: A Space Odyssey.
02/11/03
While Mr. Soderbergh's direction is always compelling, the whole film does not always equal the sum of its parts.
07/14/07
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
[Soderbergh] goes so far into the terrors and rewards of romantic love that he comes out the other side into the universal.
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
...Tarkovsky Lite, with George Clooney’s naked posterior bringing up the rear.
02/16/04
What words cannot express, what Soderbergh himself scarcely seems to understand, Clooney transforms into genuine, graspable human feeling.
11/29/02
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