Fiasco of infuriating pretentiousness and numbing incoherence.
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12/19/02
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Solaris (2002)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:26
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Slow-moving, cerebral, and ambiguous, Solaris is not a movie for everyone, but it offers intriguing issues to ponder.
Theatrical Release:Nov 27, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $14,780,776
Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh, whose eclectic resume includes the Academy Award(R)-winning drama "Traffic" as well as last year's ensemble caper "Ocean's Eleven," now brings his unique vision to SOLARIS, a... [More]
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Reviews for Solaris
Top CriticI prefer Soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over Tarkovsky's mostly male, mostly patriarchal debating societies.
12/19/02
Top CriticA hushed, haunted tone poem about love and loss.
11/29/02
Top Critic[Soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence, and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness.
11/29/02
Top CriticIt is, all at once, exhilarating, frustrating, cryptic and wise.
11/28/02
Top CriticAlthough it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result is a movie that pretty much lies dead on the screen for an hour and a half.
11/27/02
Top CriticOne for the graduate students who know everything about movies except how to enjoy them.
11/27/02
Top CriticSoderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety.
11/27/02
Top CriticMeshing philosophical inquiry with a propulsive otherworldly mystery, it has the smart-pop quality of a vintage episode of Star Trek.
11/27/02
Top CriticIf you give it half a chance, it will bore into your subconscious, mess with your mind and leave you mumbling, 'Hmm, what if --'
11/27/02
Top CriticComes across as less than a spontaneous work of the heart and more like a grim-faced stab at artistic importance.
11/27/02
Top CriticA return to what sci-fi was meant to be: Not a way to titillate teenage boys, but a means of finding a context for complex human issues.
11/27/02
Top CriticSo beautifully made (everything in it is understated except the gorgeous good looks of its stars) and turns out to have such real cumulative power that it is worth holding out to the end.
11/27/02
Top CriticThe filmmaking is extraordinarily assured, and any credible attempt to keep science fiction from becoming exclusively the province of 13-year-olds is welcome.
11/27/02
Top CriticA shrewdly pared-down version that confines its focus to a single issue for the ages: the nature of romantic passion.
11/27/02
Top CriticThe most opaque, self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine.
11/27/02
Top CriticAn example of an A-list director and movie star using their clout to do what more people in their position should: challenge themselves and their audience.
11/27/02
Top CriticA serious movie with serious ideas. But seriously, folks, it doesn't work.
11/27/02
Top CriticThe kind of smart film that has people arguing about it on their way out of the theater.
11/27/02
Top Critic[Soderbergh] goes so far into the terrors and rewards of romantic love that he comes out the other side into the universal.
11/27/02
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