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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 23 Dec 2009

Neither as effective nor as ambitious as Kubrick's masterpiece, but it's still a compelling cinematic experience for those who are willing…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 28 Apr 2009

A thought provoking, fascinating and heart breaking glimpse into characters that must come to grips with their past…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 16 Jan 2009

Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is an uptight movie -- the opposite of his scintillating Out of Sight…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for Film Threat (5,156) on 06 Sep 2008

It's an entirely different animal from Tarkovsky's hypnotic but opaque take, and it's an entirely different animal from most studio product…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 21 Mar 2008

It's an unusual challenge for a Hollywood film with a major star, but worth the effort…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Oct 2007

I find Soderbergh's Solaris an eminently more satisfying experience than Lem's…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Oct 2007

That level of acting-without-words demands the likes of a Bruno Ganz or a Klaus Maria Brandauer, not a Clooney…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 11 Oct 2007

Essentially a solemn, splintered meditation on lost love: a movie about personal space, in space…

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By Joe Lozito (463) for Big Picture Big Sound (482) on 13 Jul 2007

While Mr. Soderbergh's direction is always compelling, the whole film does not always equal the sum of its parts…

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By John Powers (147) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 05 May 2007

While I could tell the love story was supposed to be moving, I kept feeling the characters' passion struggling against the virtuosity of Soderbergh's…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 07 Sep 2006

For all its flaws, though, Solaris is a good try, and a definite improvement over the dull remakes Soderbergh has been sleepwalking through lately…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Scripted, shot, directed and edited by Soderbergh with his customary intelligence and assurance, this is perhaps the most ambiguous and cerebrally…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 12 Apr 2006

Soderbergh's film is probably not the equal of either Tarkovsky's 1972 predecessor or the memorably Byzantine prose of Lem's novel, but in…

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By Jonathan Foreman (365) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Sep 2005

So beautifully made (everything in it is understated except the gorgeous good looks of its stars) and turns out to have such real cumulative…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 18 Jun 2005

Soderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Nov 2004

Clooney brings raw intensity to his role; his scenes with McElhone are rooted in a fierce romantic yearning…

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By Judith Egerton (151) for Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (151) on 22 Jun 2004

It remains as remote as Pluto from the audience…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 09 May 2004

For those who have seen Tarkovsky's moody original, let me say that Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Mar 2004

Solaris, an exploration of outer space and inner anguish, reminds us that science fiction can embrace adult ideas and human drama as well as…

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By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Mar 2004

Soderbergh, the writer and director, has slowed his metronome almost to a crawl, has repeated and delayed and protracted, in an attempt at…

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