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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 07 Feb 2013

The movie respects a viewer’s intelligence, which should also serve as a warning; don’t be lulled into a stupor…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Feb 2013

While the plot may be predictable (and more than a little preposterous) in retrospect, Mr…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 07 Feb 2013

If this is indeed Soderbergh's final theatrical film, as the director has said he's going into semi-retirement, it's not such a bad way to go out…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 07 Feb 2013

Interesting swipe at the manipulative medication industry, yet Effects only really concentrates on the drug game for about an hour…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 07 Feb 2013

Side Effects, chilly and noirish, and boasting a wily performance from Catherine Zeta-Jones as a therapist who worked with Emily earlier in…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 07 Feb 2013

Starts out as a unique, fascinating and very daring movie, until it abruptly clicks and turns into something completely different and not nearly…

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By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2013

A doozy of a Hitchcockian thriller with Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Effects is a go-for-broke valentine to '80s cinematic…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Feb 2013

This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 07 Feb 2013

Side Effects not only draws on Soderbergh's career but has conscious echoes of Roman Polanski, Brian De Palma, and Alfred Hitchcock as well…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 07 Feb 2013

By the time the satisfying conclusion rolls around, though, it proves to be much more about the ability of a world-class director to induce…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Feb 2013

A clever thriller with so many twists that you'll probably stop counting…

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By Jonathan Lack (87) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 07 Feb 2013

An intense, zany, manipulative, gorgeously executed mess of a movie, Side Effects is entirely designed to play one big, cruel prank on its…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 07 Feb 2013

If, as he has said, this is Soderbergh's last movie before a permanent break from filmmaking, at least he has gone out with a bang…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 07 Feb 2013

As the twists piled on, I found them increasingly strained and eventually alienating…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 07 Feb 2013

For anyone who struggles to focus their attention on a movie, Side Effects is just what the doctor ordered…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 07 Feb 2013

Side Effects goes to unexpected places, and we breathlessly follow along…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Feb 2013

With Rooney Mara as the woman in question — a poised, tense Manhattanite prescribed anti-anxiety medication by her psychiatrist with newsworthy…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Feb 2013

Like his underappreciated Haywire, Side Effects screws around in its own thriller architecture, toying with feints of structure and clever…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 07 Feb 2013

There's something delightfully old-fashioned about Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 07 Feb 2013

Some of these revelations feel like clever reversals, others like calculated rug-pulls, but we never stop caring about what happens next…

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