Side Effects (2013)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 183
Fresh: 155 | Rotten: 28
A smart, clever thriller with plenty of disquieting twists, Side Effects is yet another assured effort from director Steven Soderbergh.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 47
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 8
A smart, clever thriller with plenty of disquieting twists, Side Effects is yet another assured effort from director Steven Soderbergh.
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SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) - intended to treat anxiety - has unexpected side effects. (c) Official FB
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Cast
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Rooney Mara
Emily Hawkins, Emily Ta... -
Channing Tatum
Martin Taylor -
Jude Law
Dr. Jonathan Banks -
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dr. Victoria Siebert -
Ann Dowd
Martin's Mother -
Vinessa Shaw
Dierdre Banks -
Carmen Pelaez
Prison Desk Guard -
Martin Ireland
Upset Visitor -
Polly Draper
Emily's Boss -
Haraldo Alvarez
Garage Attendant -
Jimmy Martinez
Police Officer at Hospi... -
Vladimir Versailles
Augustin -
Jacqueline Antaramian
Desk Nurse -
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Katie Lowes
Conference Organizer -
David Costabile
Carl -
Mamie Gummer
Kayla -
Steven Platt
Bartender -
Víctor Cruz
NYPD Officer Beahan -
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Pharmacist -
Peter Friedman
Banks Partner #1 -
Andrea Bogart
Drug Rep -
Laila Robins
Banks Partner #2 -
Mitchell Michaliszyn
Ezra Banks -
Elizabeth Rich
Banks Patient #1 -
Roderick Rodriguez
Paramedic #1 -
Mark Weekes
Paramedic #2 -
John Scott Shepherd
NYPD Detective -
Michael Nathanson
Assistant District Atto... -
Timothy Klein
Transporting Officer Kl... -
Sheila Tapia
Emily's Attorney -
Josh Elliott
GMA Anchor -
Sasha Bardey
Dr. Peter Joubert -
Ashley A. Morrison
Reporter #1 -
Steve Lacy
Reporter #2 -
Ken Marks
Banks Patient #2 -
Devin Ratray
Banks Patient #3 -
Russell G. Jones
Jeffery Childs -
Munro M. Bonnell
Judge #1 -
Susan Gross
Susan -
Debbie Friedlander
Wards Island Administra... -
Ilyana Kadushin
ECT Patient -
Johnny Sanchez
ECT Nurse -
Nicole Ansari
Disturbed Patient on Ph... -
La Chanze
Wards Island Desk Nurse -
Alice Niedermair-Ludwig
Wards Island Nurse -
Craig muMs Grant
Wards Island Orderly -
Davenia McFadden
Judge #2 -
Raymond DeBendictis
Arresting Officer -
J. Claude Deering
Zach -
Blake Lively
Emily Hawkins
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All Critics (183) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (156) | Rotten (28) | DVD (1)
As a thriller in the Hitchcock mould, 'Side Effects' is great fun: its characters are well acted without being entirely likeable, which makes their jeopardy all the more enjoyable while putting us at a clinical remove.
Top CriticSoderbergh is less interested in making statements than he is in skillfully fulfilling genre expectations.
A crafty teaser that presents itself as one kind of film before gradually evolving into another kind altogether. I, for one, enjoyed both enormously.
Steven Soderbergh is one of our best and most versatile directors.
Side Effects is a cracking thriller that ranks amongst Soderbergh's best, featuring electric performances by Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Channing Tatum.
Side Effects virtually demands a three-word review: Just see it.
It suggests Jagged Edge retold in the measured voice of the New Yorker.
...another disappointing misfire from Soderbergh...
Um experimento de gênero eficiente e que demonstra certa coragem ao puxar o tapete sob as expectativas do público quanto ao tipo de filme que está vendo.
It's the nuances that lift it into the upper echelon, especially the subtle way it poses questions about our growing dependence on psychopharmaceuticals and the motivations of the doctors who so freely prescribe them.
There's no lasting surprise, no wonder or "wow" factor. Instead, Side Effects is a serviceable suspense effort that owes more than a little to its desire to mimic one of the medium's masters.
A crafty screenplay and devilishly sexy turns from Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones keep the movie mesmerizing, and one of my favorite movies released in 2013 so far.
Even when it twists back to Hitchcockland, there's more than enough lingering spookiness about a culture's dependence on prescription drugs and psychiatry to wrench Side Effects away from being a mere trickster-tale.
Soderbergh is that rare director who can turn a clunky screenplay into something almost entirely delicious, and with SIDE EFFECTS he does exactly that.
Soderbergh, with the help of some excellent writing by Scott Z. Burns and an outstanding cast, take you to Hitchcock territory.
A masterful double-bluff. What starts as a taut, topical drama about medicated America becomes a classic, twisted neo-noir that sees Soderbergh pushing aside on-the-nose themes in favour of sheer entertainment.
One moment, we're watching an enthralling exposé of the modern pharmaceutical industry; the next we're reeling from some well-timed mystery-thriller shocks. And Soderbergh, aided by a sharp script and superb cast, wrong-foots us all the way.
Ripper psychological mystery-thriller...prime, sharply directed guessing game stuff full of plot surprises and great left turns.
Courtroom drama, forensic thriller, romantic murder mystery...It's as if, the prescription for genre side effects, is more genres.
At its best, it's chilling, creepy, strange and intriguing; at its worst, it's gorgeous to look at.
A real pill of a movie that packs a serious one-two punch as a detective drama coupled with a cautionary tale about the dangers of trying to pharma-cate our troubles away.
The feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two poles with us barely realising is a testament to Soderbergh's talent.
A story that plays subtle tricks with our moral allegiances.
An effortlessly slick medical thriller that makes no grand statements or summations beyond being effortlessly artful and entertaining.
If this puzzling, often very enjoyable medical thriller were directed by almost any film-maker other than Steven Soderbergh, you would be tempted to diagnose it with genre identity disorder.
It's certainly entertaining if you are willing to suspend your disbelief a little.
Audience Reviews for Side Effects
Super Reviewer
Starting off really slow and almost repellently unremarkable, I first wondered if it was going to be another overrated sleeping pill. Just as I was about to lose my patience, however, it rapidly shifted gear, escalating into a devastating turn of events and a superbly intriguing mystery yarn you feel compelled to see unraveled.
Besides the top notch acting (with Rooney Mara and Jude Law really playing things to the hilt), figuring out this puzzle box to Thomas Newman's enhancing music score is a stimulant that will really make your day. It's only side effect: an apparent risk of melancholy as this could very well be where the Soderbergh train makes its final stop.
My prescription: check it out. Because I don't need to be on any medication to say that this is my personal favorite film by him since the suave and classy Ocean's Eleven.
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Super Reviewer
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- Dierdre Banks: Did the person do it? Are they guilty?
- Dr. Jonathan Banks: In this case, those are two very different things.
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