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Reliably unpredictable director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven, Traffic, The Limey) tries his hand at a rarely attempted genre: the disease disaster pic. Soderbergh directs Contagion with the stern unspeculative approach of a politician sticking to the line on a tricky issue: no bombast, no spectacle, no flamboyant movements. Instead, carefully guarded responses to [...]

The title of writer/director George Nolfi’s SCI-FI action romance The Adjustment Bureau is one of the least enticing on the 2011 calendar. Those three uninspiring words do make sense in a story context, given they sound like a description of a government department and the film is more or less about one – though whether [...]

The latest woozily edited action flick from Bourne director Paul Greengrass is The Green Zone, an on-the-ground Iraq war movie that strings together an exhaustive conga line of action scenes in service of an ultimately simple hypothesis: that the existence of WMDs was a lie concocted by American “intelligence” and used by the U.S. government [...]

The common perception of Clint Eastwood is that of a tough, uncompromising figure in Hollywood, the kind of rugged seen-it-all type who can smite souls with his eyes and talks through gritted teeth, grousing about the foibles of a harsh, unforgiving and morally vacuous world. As an actor he is both revered and stereotyped as [...]