It further confirms Steven Soderbergh as the best director to emerge from his generation of filmmakers.
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11/30/02
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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11/30/02
Both cerebral and woozy, like a Twilight Zone episode with hyper visuals, or a more vulnerable, even feminized update on Them.
11/29/02
Love it or hate it, you won't easily get this movie out of your head.
11/29/02
What words cannot express, what Soderbergh himself scarcely seems to understand, Clooney transforms into genuine, graspable human feeling.
11/29/02
A hushed, haunted tone poem about love and loss.
11/29/02
Solaris is what you'd call a "thinking person's sci-fi film," and it has all the strengths and weaknesses that that term implies.
11/29/02
Always a probing, intuitive filmmaker, Soderbergh, after some floundering attempts in the past, finally gets one of his cinematic experiments right.
11/29/02
A lustrous and haunting work of art, and easily one of the year's best films.
11/29/02
The film's real appeal won't be to Clooney fans or adventure buffs, but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers.
11/29/02
A somewhat pretentious, but still very daring and absorbing sci-fi romance.
11/29/02
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
[Soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence, and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness.
11/29/02
A movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events.
11/29/02
Not as much a remake of a sci-fi classic as a reverent interpretation by a filmmaker at peace with his material.
11/29/02
This science fiction, psychological drama will make you think, but might also make you sleep as well.
11/28/02
A fluid and alluring sc-fi drama that hallows the mysteries of memory, love and yearning.
11/28/02
The liveliest moments in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris belong to Jeremy Davies' hands.
11/28/02
It is one of the most intelligent science fiction movies to have come our way since, I dunno, Brazil maybe. No dumbing down here.
11/28/02
A solemn, splintered meditation on lost love: a movie about personal space, in space.
11/28/02
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