The Underneath Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Stylish, arty and quite enjoyable.
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| Original Score: B+
Cinema Writer
An absorbing, if an occasionally plodding, experience.
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| Original Score: 3/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
One of Soderbbergh's weakest (and unnecessary) films, this exercise in film noir, a remake of the 1949 classic Criss Cross, is marred by weak dialogue and formulaic plot, again stressing the need of a gifted helmer like Soderbergh for stronger narrative
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| Original Score: 1/4
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Cinema em Cena
Enquanto investe no desenvolvimento de seus personagens, o filme impressiona. Pena que acabe se perdendo ao insistir em várias reviravoltas pouco convincentes.
| Original Score: 2/5
Goatdog's Movies
Really enjoyable, especially if you like intricate flashbacks and multiple storylines.
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| Original Score: 3/5
What The Underneath lacks is the kind of emotional connection that the best film noirs have. Instead of involving, this film is distancing, too given to admiring its own shiny surface.
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| Original Score: 2/5
San Francisco Examiner
Soderbergh is a talent, but he still hasn't found his groove. He seems to be searching for the project that will be a match for his talents. He needs to keep looking.
The film may turn out to have been more of a stylistic adventure for the director than for an audience.
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| Original Score: 2/4
As tales of sex and sinfulness go, Soderbergh's fourth film doesn't deliver.
Why did Soderbergh want to remake an old film noir, anyway? Take out the crime elements and flesh out the human elements here, and you have a more interesting movie, I think.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Filmcritic.com
he movie's strong points (including some nice work by Gallagher) manage to outweigh the negatives.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Austin Chronicle
A diverting piece of moviemaking, thanks primarily to fine direction by Soderbergh.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Downbeat, laconically funny, arty (maybe a touch too arty), it's simmering, smoldering lowlife fun, like a good episode of Twin Peaks without the self-conscious weirdness.
