There's an honesty in what Soderbergh's camera has captured that, while not real in the strictest sense of the term, is nevertheless true-to-life.
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02/16/06
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Bubble (2006)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:71
Rotten:29
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: This rigorously stripped down, seemingly mundane little film still manages to be engrossing and creepy.
Theatrical Release:Jan 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $70,664
Synopsis: With BUBBLE, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh proves that one doesn't need a huge Hollywood budget and larger-than-life actors to craft an affecting motion picture. Following his... [More]
Starring: Debbie Doebereiner, Misty Dawn Wilkins, Omar Cowan, Laurie Lee
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Reviews for Bubble
Top CriticIt's not really interesting enough to warrant a regular run. But it's worth a one-shot 73-minute outing on the program of your local festival.
02/10/06
These conversations are about as deadly dull as any dialogue I’ve ever heard even in the earliest talkies.
02/08/06
Top CriticBubble is an 'art movie' in that it values a certain kind of content and execution that may not be of great interest to a mass audience. [I]t's a character study in the form of a noir-type murder mystery.
02/07/06
Soderbergh’s use of the new technology makes this situation work.
02/07/06
Top CriticSoderbergh holds up a mirror to these lives of quiet desperation and shows us how unquiet they can be.
02/04/06
Top CriticBubble is likely to be remembered more for its method of manufacture and release than for any inherent qualities of its own.
02/04/06
Realism is the main thing -- the only thing, really -- that this film has going for it.
02/04/06
The script is boring, the acting atrocious, the direction is poor,...what the hell happened here?
02/03/06
A drab Southern drama about lives of quiet desperation and the people who lead them.
02/03/06
While Bubble lacks a third act, never quite reaching an ultimate destination in the film’s 70 short minutes, what it does evoke with remarkable success is the claustrophobia of a world without a way out.
02/01/06
What's unclear at the end, unfortunately, is why Soderbergh really bothered with this one.
01/31/06
As a portrait of low-class desperation, Bubble is nothing short of haunting.
01/29/06
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01/28/06
Ultimately, Bubble is less important as a film than as an experiment in simultaneous cross-platform film distribution.
01/27/06
As the plot unfolded along the lines of a conventional melodrama, I couldn't help thinking: In addition to health care and a living wage, don't the working poor deserve makeup, wardrobe, decent lighting, and some heart-skipping drama?
01/27/06
The result is haunting and often creepy in its realism.
01/27/06
Proves that in the hands of a director with an artist's eye for telling details, a wholly original story revealing the complexity and, yes, bizarreness of human nature trumps star power every time.
01/27/06
Top CriticA film of uncommon naturalism that offers a rare cinematic glimpse -- at least outside of documentaries -- into the lives of the working poor.
01/27/06
It's a slight film, to be sure, but this understated and plaintive depiction of a romantic triangle gone fatally awry in rural Ohio is much more involving -- and less annoying -- than the idiosyncratic filmmaker's past 'experiments.'
01/27/06
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