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Sex, Lies and Videotape

1989

Steven Soderbergh

James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo ...

6.7

29,552

Drama Steven Soderbergh explodes onto the scene with this provocative, intelligent drama about infidelity and voyeurism. Ann Milaney (Andie MacDowell) lives in a comfortable Louisiana home with her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher). She spends her days fretting over the insurmountable problems of the world and her own unfocused sense of melancholy. Although she doesn't know it, she has a good reason to be upset: John is having a torrid ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"[James Spader] gives a tremendously subtle performance (...) A film whose enormous authority and intelligence extend to every detail."	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"Brilliant! A delicate and sexually-charged film"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It has more intelligence than heart, and is more clever than enlightening. But it is never boring (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Soderbergh’s exceptionally well-chosen cast never strikes a false note (...) Savor his triumph"	POS
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"It hasn’t dated. The central themes (...) still feel meaningful (...) There’s no such thing as filler in a Soderbergh film. Every shot says something."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Soderbergh has assembled his cast into a fascinating jigsaw of neuroses, which then leap from the screen thanks to his intriguingly intellectual script (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"[It is] as welcome as fresh sheets, telling and terribly personal. It has the chummy ambiance of a surreal slumber party."	POS
United States	Variety	"This is a sexy, nuanced, beautifully controlled examination of how a quartet of people are defined by their erotic impulses and inhibitions."	POS

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