Astonishingly effective melodrama--down to the devastating last line.
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10/03/05
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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
As a portrait of low-class desperation, Bubble is nothing short of haunting.
01/29/06
Soderbergh 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
Bubble is best considered as a failed-but-occasionally-nifty experiment.
11/27/06
"Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos.
04/19/08
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07/14/07
Soderbergh has made an experiment worth seeing, but how much do you want to bet his actors have richer lives than the characters they're playing, even if those lives look just as ordinary?
01/27/06
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04/23/09
A drab Southern drama about lives of quiet desperation and the people who lead them.
02/03/06
It's clear that Soderbergh is attempting to depict the banality in blue-collar work, but he does it by making the people themselves banal.
10/15/05
The characters are so closely observed and played with such exacting accuracy and conviction that Bubble becomes quietly, inexorably, hypnotic.
01/26/06
Top CriticAn odd little movie and a good one, worthy for what it is and potentially groundbreaking for how it's being made available.
01/26/06
Top CriticThe local atmosphere, filmed on the Ohio-West Virginia border, is rigorously authentic and so is the cast, none of whose members have acted before.
10/14/06
[Bubble takes] a concept that could have been the art house version of a sideshow and turns it into something exciting and real.
01/26/06
Fascinante estudo de personagens, Bubble não é um filme marcado por ações, mas por sutilezas.
07/06/06
The first-time performances create a naturalistic style that's pure in its shallowness.
01/18/06
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.
02/01/08
Both self-sufficient and utterly incomplete
08/30/09
At times it's so mind-numbingly dull, it becomes funny. But it's not a feature film. I'm not really sure what it is.
01/27/06
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