The Playlist  News

What Are You Seeing This Weekend? 'Would You Rather' 'Glimpse Inside The Mind' Of 'Side Effects' Or 'Identity Thief'?

It's a big weekend for names. Steven Soderbergh is back for one last go-round on the theatrical circuit (read our retrospective of his work here). Indiewood favorites of this past fall, John Hawkes and Bill Murray, show up to remind us how fantastic they are (and why they should have gotten Oscar no...

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The Playlist  News

Watch: Jude Law Wants To Know What Happened In New Clip From 'Side Effects'

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The Playlist  News

Megan Ellison Hates Harvey Weinstein & More: 7 Highlights From The Juicy Vanity Fair Profile On The Annapurna Scion

Vanity Fair’s 2013 Hollywood issue is kind of the gift that keeps on giving. It not only has an awesome oral history of “Pulp Fiction” (highlights of which you can read here), but it also has some pretty in-depth and juicy profiles. But, the most tantalizing is about Megan Ellison, the 27-year old d...

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The Playlist  News

Watch: Take Another Dose With The New Trailer For Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects'

So, we may have had four weeks of movies already in the new year, but frankly, 2013 doesn't start for us cinematically until next week, when Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects" arrives. It seems to be the first movie of the year that wasn't dumped or forgotten about by the studi...

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The Playlist  News

Watch: 'Side Effects' Goes Over The Counter With 3 More Clips

Steven Soderbergh’s penultimate film “Side Effects” is, for many people, the first film of 2013 that’s worth seeing. Starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the psychological thriller already unveiled a couple of clips, and now three more have...

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Indiewire  Reviews

The Best Indie Movies of 2013 So Far, According to Criticwire (UPDATED): 'Before Midnight' Takes the Lead

The biggest change for this particular update is the entry of the critical juggernaut "Before Midnight." While some new films are able to achieve an initial overall "A" rating at the outset of a festival or theatrical run, few manage to sustain such adulation after nearly 70 different critics have c...

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Thompson on Hollywood  Reviews

Weekend Preview: Good 'Side Effects,' 'Identity Thief' Steals Your Time, Praise for Foreign 'Lore' and 'Caesar Must Die'

Steven Soderbergh's pharma-thriller "Side Effects" hits theaters this weekend, starring Rooney Mara as a woman suffering a deleterious breakdown after her husband's release from prison. Critics are praising Soderbergh's film, his last big-screen entry before a self-imposed retirement from cinema. In...

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Leonard Maltin  Reviews

SIDE EFFECTS

"Side Effects" is a good, juicy thriller with echoes of film noir in its DNA. Director Steven Soderbergh is a genre fan and while his film feels completely contemporary...

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Criticwire  Reviews

Criticwire Picks: 'Lore' a Difficult But Engaging Perspective on WWII

Our network of critics have deemed Cate Shortland's new film, a tale of postwar survival, the film to watch this weekend. Also in this week's edition of Criticwire Picks: a new look at two documentaries and the film from the late '60s that hasn't aged quite as well with Criticwire members.

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Indiewire  Reviews

Review: Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects' Shows He's Ready For a Break

According to Steven Soderbergh, "Side Effects" is the filmmaker's final feature-length directing credit, and it shows, partly because this rambling genre exercise very skillfully offers nothing new. The truth about Soderbergh's plans contain far more ambiguity and details: He has the HBO Liberace bi...

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