Steven Soderbergh

Kafka (1991)

Kafka (1991)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 7, 2002Fictionalised Author Biopic/Mad Scientists
Steven Soderbergh's second film was this flop pseudo-biopic that places Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) alongside mad scientist elements and German Expressionist homages but fails to find much of Kafka's paranoid mood
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Pleasantville (1998)

Pleasantville (1998)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 16, 1999Trapped Inside a 1950s TV Show
Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon are modern teens who become trapped in a 1950s tv show and end up puncturing its innocence. The messages made end up being broad and heavy-handed but the premise and the visual palette of the film is extremely clever
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Solaris (2002)

Solaris (2002)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 1, 2003Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory
Steven Soderbergh's English-language remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's epic SF film. Soderbergh trims Tarkovsky's long-windedness and makes the plot tighter, more intimate but this still emerges as a lesser version than the original
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 24, 2006Animation/Philip K. Dick Adaptation/Identity Bending Drugs
Richard Linklater conducts an animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel with extremely faithful results. Keanu Reeves is a police officer assigned to investigate what he realises is himself
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Unsane (2018)

Unsane (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 12, 2018Woman Wrongly Incarcerated in an Asylum with Her Stalker
Steven Soderbergh shoots a film on an iPhone. Claire Foy is wrongly incarcerated in an asylum only to be followed by a stalker posing as an orderly where her pleas for help taken as evidence of delusion
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