It's surreal and paranoid, but a mostly underwhelming and tonally confusing watch.

| Jan 20, 2022

Soderbergh's talent is not in doubt; you can see, in the often elegant images shot by Walt Lloyd, a real filmmaker at work. But his choice of material is dubious.

| Feb 6, 2018

There are shafts of insight, and the photography's elegantly expressionist. But Irons, sturdily English despite a fitting heaviness of the spirit, is hopelessly miscast as the iconic, neurasthenic writer.

| Dec 12, 2017

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2007

All the Kafka basics are there for the literary types to muse over and it has great entertainment value in its unpretentious playfulness.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 2, 2007

Soderbergh's sophomore jinx, a pastiche of styles (noir, German Expressionism) and themes (personal and political oppression), further hampered by the vastly miscast Jeremy Irons.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2004

Incomprehensible but interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2004

One of Soderbergh's most fascinating films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003

Steven Soderbergh's Kafka is a very bad well-directed movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2002

Lem Dobb's script doesn't rely on comprehension or linearity, but the whole scope of the project has its compelling root.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2001

Soderbergh does demonstrate again here that he's a gifted director, however unwise in his choice of project.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A movie about Franz Kafka? It's a good idea for a microsecond. Then it dissolves into a dumb proposition.

| Jan 1, 2000

Quite often, the visual feast is enough to hold audience attention. But, in the end, it all feels rather empty.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000