Traffic (2000) Critic Reviews
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Soderbergh's story, from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, cuts between these characters so smoothly that even a fairly complex scenario remains clear and charged with tension.Read the full review
Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level.Read the full review
Explosive entertainment, with the tension and volatility of its subject matter.Read the full review
The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.Read the full review
Sinfully watchable ensemble movie.Read the full review
May be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's "Nashville" to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid- washed palette.Read the full review
It's the best drug-busting movie since ''The French Connection.''Read the full review
The story itself is surprisingly seamless, yet it's the individual components that linger.Read the full review
So though it takes important steps in that direction, the film pulls back from what seems to be its own logical conclusion.Read the full review
You could get high on this movie's technique, dizzy on its storytelling. Yet it's one of the most lucid bad trips ever made.Read the full review
