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

Anomalous and mesmerising.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2003

With audacity and style, Steven Soderbergh has revisited one of Russian cinema's landmarks, and done so very successfully.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2003

Soderbergh has given us a boutique space picture - smallish but classy with a translucent glow, accented in chrome, white and blue and touched up with crystalline surfaces.

| Mar 7, 2003

One of the finest science fiction films since 2001: A Space Odyssey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2003

Fiasco of infuriating pretentiousness and numbing incoherence.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2002

I prefer Soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over Tarkovsky's mostly male, mostly patriarchal debating societies.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2002

A mysterious and powerful movie, much like the strange planet at the far reaches of the universe for which it is named.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Stoned on cinema, Soderbergh retreads the paces of Stanislaw Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky ... appropriat[ing] certain settings and images to mostly failed effect.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2002

A hushed, haunted tone poem about love and loss.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2002

[Soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence, and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 29, 2002

A solemn, splintered meditation on lost love: a movie about personal space, in space.

| Nov 28, 2002

It is, all at once, exhilarating, frustrating, cryptic and wise.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2002

Although it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result is a movie that pretty much lies dead on the screen for an hour and a half.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2002

One for the graduate students who know everything about movies except how to enjoy them.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2002

Soderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2002

Meshing philosophical inquiry with a propulsive otherworldly mystery, it has the smart-pop quality of a vintage episode of Star Trek.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2002

While it's rather bracing to see a movie in which everything isn't spelled out from the start ... Solaris is too often a mystifying genre experiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 27, 2002

If you give it half a chance, it will bore into your subconscious, mess with your mind and leave you mumbling, 'Hmm, what if --'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2002