There's something refreshing about this film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Non-actors added an interesting element to the film and it worked well as a mildly pleasant viewing experience until the story turned from everyday humdrum into a murder mystery.

| Nov 7, 2019

Is there another contemporary filmmaker whose work swings as unpredictably between the seductive and the alienating as does Steven Soderbergh's?

| Jul 6, 2010

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.

| Original Score: B- | May 1, 2010

Both self-sufficient and utterly incomplete

| Aug 30, 2009

Soderbergh artlessly presents America's concealed poverty that drives the paltry ambitions of many of its citizens.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 16, 2009

"Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos.

| Apr 19, 2008

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.

| Apr 11, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Feb 1, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2007

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.

| Feb 4, 2007

Bubble is best considered as a failed-but-occasionally-nifty experiment.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Nov 27, 2006

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 14, 2006

The film is called Bubble, but it represents the first time in ages Steven Soderbergh has worked outside of his personal territory.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 6, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Fascinante estudo de personagens, Bubble não é um filme marcado por ações, mas por sutilezas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2006

I was blown away.

| Jun 24, 2006

Soderbergh simply displays ordinary people as they are and challenges us to determine why smiles become rare blips on the blue-collar radar.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2006

... A great film by any standard.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 4, 2006