Solaris: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 202 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

Soderbergh, in essence, has come up with a plodding and far less psychologically arresting version of Ghost.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

80

In the Hollywood pantheon of recycled heroes, [Clooney] suggests a Clark Gable for the new millennium, without the raised eyebrow and rakish leer.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

80

With audacity and style, Steven Soderbergh has revisited one of Russian cinema's landmarks, and done so very successfully.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Soderbergh does a fine job creating a moody atmosphere of pervasive anxiety.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

One for the graduate students who know everything about movies except how to enjoy them.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

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.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

[Soderbergh] goes so far into the terrors and rewards of romantic love that he comes out the other side into the universal.
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J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

This is as elegant, moody, intelligent, sensuous, and sustained a studio movie as we are likely to see this season.
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

84

The filmmaking is extraordinarily assured, and any credible attempt to keep science fiction from becoming exclusively the province of 13-year-olds is welcome.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

17

Its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity, Steven Soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.
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Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

38

A serious movie with serious ideas. But seriously, folks, it doesn't work.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

The kind of smart film that has people arguing about it on their way out of the theater.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

It's a lovely, eerie film that casts an odd, rapt spell.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

25

[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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film. What's left is a rich stew of longing.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

0

The most opaque, self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

It is, all at once, exhilarating, frustrating, cryptic and wise.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

I prefer Soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over Tarkovsky's mostly male, mostly patriarchal debating societies.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

Fiasco of infuriating pretentiousness and numbing incoherence.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Despite its undeniably pure and earnest intent, Solaris is equally undeniably an arid, dull affair that imposes and maintains a huge distance between the viewer and what happens onscreen.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

75

So beautifully made (everything in it is understated except the gorgeous good looks of its stars) and turns out to have such real cumulative power that it is worth holding out to the end.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

100

The smartest science fiction film since Blade Runner, and yes, that includes The Matrix.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

80

Meshing philosophical inquiry with a propulsive otherworldly mystery, it has the smart-pop quality of a vintage episode of Star Trek.
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Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

A shrewdly pared-down version that confines its focus to a single issue for the ages: the nature of romantic passion.
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Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

Visually astonishing and thoroughly admirable.
Full Review » 10 years ago