The Limey Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

A first-rate crime thriller and further proof that Soderbergh is one of our great contemporary film stylists.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

One of those movies in which pacing, dialogue and the right actors enliven a familiar story.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

A solid genre film that offers the satisfactions of the familiar while deriving its resonance through its specific and telling references to the '60s.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

A mesmerizing mood piece.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

In its quiet and murderous way, it is like the delayed final act of an old movie about drugs, guns and revenge.Read the full review

The New York Times | Janet MaslinAdd Critic to Favorites

Among Soderbergh's widely varied films ("sex, lies and videotape," "Kafka," "The Underneath," "Schizopolis," "Out of Sight"), this one actually has the best chance of becoming anyone's sentimental favorite.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

(Stamp and Fonda's) polar-opposition in acting styles and temperament, their cultural differences and their pop-cultural synergy come together with almost delicious cacophony.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Can't outrun its very visible limits.Read the full review

Variety | Emanuel LevyAdd Critic to Favorites

One has no problem praising the bravura acting of the entire ensemble.Read the full review

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