Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 73 | Rotten: 29
This rigorously stripped down, seemingly mundane little film still manages to be engrossing and creepy.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 9
This rigorously stripped down, seemingly mundane little film still manages to be engrossing and creepy.
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Steven Soderbergh followed up his slick, star-studded sequel, Ocean's Twelve, with Bubble, a small-town drama about workers in a doll factory, played by a cast of unknowns. Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) seems to have acclimated herself to a very simple life. She works at the factory, where she eats lunch with a younger co-worker, Kyle (Dustin Ashley), and goes home to take care of her elderly father. Her routine is disrupted when an attractive young woman, Rose (Misty Wilkins), is hired at the
R, 1 hr. 13 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Jan 27, 2006 Wide
Jan 31, 2006
$70.7k
Magnolia Pictures
All Critics (106) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (75) | Rotten (29) | DVD (7)
The local atmosphere, filmed on the Ohio-West Virginia border, is rigorously authentic and so is the cast, none of whose members have acted before.
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.
It'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.
These conversations are about as deadly dull as any dialogue I've ever heard even in the earliest talkies.
Soderbergh's use of the new technology makes this situation work.
Soderbergh holds up a mirror to these lives of quiet desperation and shows us how unquiet they can be.
Finally got around to seeing this film and was impressed with Soderbergh's experimental style. This guy continues to be one of best directors around today. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Both self-sufficient and utterly incomplete
Soderbergh artlessly presents America's concealed poverty that drives the paltry ambitions of many of its citizens.
"Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos.
Bubble is an intriguing work for other reasons, though: in some ways, Soderbergh takes us back to his iconic debut, sex, lies and videotape, where realism was the film's most powerful weapon.
Appears at first glance to be either a violent attack on the white working poor, or not aggressive enough in its critique of the cultural degradation of that social class.
A true example of cinema verite that captures the essence of small-town life using non-actors.
Not quite Hitchcock, but a satisfying flick, and proof positive that you don't need a big budget or A-list talent to make a decent whodunit.
Not quite Hitchcock, but a satisfying flick, and proof positive that you don't need a big budget or A-list talent to make a decent whodunit.
Life and death among the working poor. Critics hated it because it lacked entertainment value. That's more of a condemnation of them than the film.
Bubble is best considered as a failed-but-occasionally-nifty experiment.
The film is called Bubble, but it represents the first time in ages Steven Soderbergh has worked outside of his personal territory.
Versatile director Steven Soderbergh leaves the bright lights of Las Vegas far behind for this quiet, stark tale of friendship and murder in a small Midwestern town.
Fascinante estudo de personagens, Bubble não é um filme marcado por ações, mas por sutilezas.
I was blown away.
Where "Full Frontal" (also written by Coleman Hough) was Steven Soderbergh's ode to Polish meta-narrative and "Ocean's Twelve" was his valentine to Jean-Luc Godard, "Bubble" is Soderbergh's neorealism tribute. Employing non-actors (whom are all extremely potent) and filming in a real, decaying Ohio town (a doll factory
March 19, 2011Super Reviewer
"Another Steven Soderbergh Experience" Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory. REVIEWA hypnotic and haunting art film from director Steven Soderbergh, Bubble tells the story of three Ohio factory workers and the
April 17, 2009
Super Reviewer
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