Steven Soderbergh has crafted a meticulously treacherous Hitchcockian thriller; the atmosphere crackles with sexual tension and betrayal.

| Mar 22, 2023

Dr. Banks' battle against evil lesbian scheme-hatchery sculpts him into a perfect husband, father, and doctor. It's surprising there isn't an epilogue to the film of him undergoing yet another transformation-this time into a saint, or maybe Superman.

| Jan 14, 2021

Side Effects showcases much of what the just 50-year-old filmmaker does best.

| Feb 22, 2019

Just when the film seems to have settled into that particular rubric, it sidesteps into a different bad-dream scenario... Which is where Side Effects starts getting slippery to a fault, and seriously problematic with it.

| Jul 31, 2018

It is, when the end credits roll, a sold, sturdy little mystery - sleek, and more than a little junk-foody.

| Jun 21, 2016

A chilling, disturbing portrait of the dangers of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the evil of deceit.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 23, 2015

It's difficult to escape the impression that the movie is impressed only with its cleverness.

| Jan 3, 2014

Side Effects is a more than worthy film for anyone to end their career (well, maybe) on.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 16, 2013

If audiences stop trying to unravel the very tangled plot and don't mind have the carpet pulled from under their feet again and again, they should find plenty here to relish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2013

Once Side Effects gets into its crime story, medication is swept aside by movie nonsense. The storyline goes into tangles that have to be dealt with very rapidly if the audience is not to start laughing.

| Jun 13, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2013

This movie is pure hokum, just as Hitchcock's great originals are, but you only realise this after - just like all the people in the film - you have been thoroughly hooked and duped yourself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2013

A mischievously enthralling trip ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2013

What a gripping and disturbing thriller this is. Surely it can't be Soderbergh's last movie. Say it ain't so.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 7, 2013

Opts for raucous frivolity over genuine substance. But it's great fun while it lasts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2013

The instability bleeds into the fabric of the film itself, and until the very end, it is thrillingly hard to prise open its puzzle-box lid.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 7, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2013

We may lose Soderbergh to painting, theatre and HBO-fuelled 온라인카지노추천, and that's a crying shame. If that's the case, Side Effects is a great note on which to go out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2013

Soderbergh is less interested in making statements than he is in skillfully fulfilling genre expectations.

| Original Score: 7.9/10 | Mar 1, 2013

When all's said and done, it'll go down as minor Soderbergh - clever sleight-of-hand, really - but it reminds you of so many Soderberghy virtues as to be an oddly compendious pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2013