A 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.
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03/08/03
Solaris (2002)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:26
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.3/10
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 - 12 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticSoderbergh 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.
03/07/03
Top CriticWith audacity and style, Steven Soderbergh has revisited one of Russian cinema's landmarks, and done so very successfully.
03/25/03
Top CriticIf you're the type to be stimulated by Solaris's weighty philosophical issues, it's a mind-bending sci-fi trip into the unknown. For all others, it will be the perfect cure for insomnia. .
03/09/03
Top CriticAlthough 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 CriticOne for the graduate students who know everything about movies except how to enjoy them.
11/27/02
Top CriticSoderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety.
11/27/02
Top CriticThe kind of smart film that has people arguing about it on their way out of the theater.
11/27/02
Top CriticIt's an example of sophisticated, challenging filmmaking that stands, despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft, in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous Full Frontal.
11/26/02
Top CriticIn the Hollywood pantheon of recycled heroes, [Clooney] suggests a Clark Gable for the new millennium, without the raised eyebrow and rakish leer.
11/26/02
Top CriticDespite its undeniably pure and earnest intent, Solaris is equally undeniably an arid, dull affair that imposes and maintains a huge distance between the viewer and what happens onscreen.
11/22/02
Top CriticIt's very thoughtful and it's the kind of movie you have to discuss afterwards.
11/18/02
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