Like Tarkovsky, and Kubrick before him, Soderbergh has made a philosophical art movie in a sci-fi costume.

| Original Score: A | Sep 17, 2022

“Solaris” is a psychological thriller told through the stylistic lens of Soderbergh’s camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

A rare, absorbing science-fiction tale that uses its actors, deceptively modest formal approach, and genre to sublime effect.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2022

Existential sci-fi drama has language, sex, adult themes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2021

This is supposed to be love among the urban professionals in the not-so-distant future. Some fantasies apparently die hard.

| Feb 16, 2021

In addition to an excellent work of science fiction, 'Solaris' is a psychological creation, deep and brave. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

One of the few true Oscar candidates of the year, this is an all around masterpiece.

| Nov 16, 2019

Whereas Tarkovsky's Solaris was a cerebral engagement with concepts of memory, relativity and Lacanian theory, Soderbergh's is a classy narrative piece - no more, no less.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2018

Solaris is just boring. It's dull. God, is it dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull! Dull!

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 10, 2016

...it remains a fascinating work and its deep questioning of what makes us human when faced with simulacrums feels if anything more relevant today than when it was made.

| Original Score: 9.1/10 | Jun 4, 2011

Steven Soderbergh prunes Andrei Tartovsky's 1972 film (based on Stanislaw Lem's novel) to the clarity and concision of a great short story - a forlorn, philosophical sci-fi romance treading the terrain of "Blade Runner's" metaphysical melancholy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

A thought provoking, fascinating and heart breaking glimpse into characters that must come to grips with their past.

| Apr 29, 2009

Steven Soderbergh's extremely sedate, Spartan science-fiction thriller and love story pits man's common sense and perceptions of a higher power against his own dreams and desires.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

It's an unusual challenge for a Hollywood film with a major star, but worth the effort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2008

While Mr. Soderbergh's direction is always compelling, the whole film does not always equal the sum of its parts.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Scripted, shot, directed and edited by Soderbergh with his customary intelligence and assurance, this is perhaps the most ambiguous and cerebrally sophisticated Hollywood movie in nearly three decades.

| Jun 24, 2006

fascinating, despite its flaws

Full Review | Original Score: 84/100 | Mar 4, 2006

Soderbergh's Solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Soderbergh's latest may well leave Stanislaw Lem grumbling. My bet is virtually everyone else will be blown away.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The images are crisp and the pacing faultless, as you'd expect with Soderbergh, and the soundtrack (with music by Cliff Martinez) is an environment in itself.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2005