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Presence

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Presence

2024

Steven Soderbergh

Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, West Mulholland ...

Horror. Mystery A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.

	Media	Author	Review
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"'Presence' pulls you in, terrifies you, then leaves your heart on the floor (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"A funny, disturbing, and nimble genre exercise that further proves Soderbergh is one of the most inventive directors to play the game"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"It's a clever —not to mention consistently unnerving— thriller about the longing to be close to death, and the even stronger impulse to safeguard our loved ones from harm"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"While 'Presence' sinks into an authentic family drama whose tentacles of intrigue are just dark enough to lure us in, it’s not an especially frightening movie"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"Soderbergh has never met a genre he didn't want to deconstruct, taffy-pull or ransack for some sort of aesthetic experiment; he’s one of the few filmmakers you could imagine wearing a lab coat when he directs"
		Valerie Complex Deadline	"Lacking commercial appeal and a neatly tied resolution, 'Presence' proves that Soderbergh is someone prime on taking risks and operating outside of studio constraints"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It's a mid-season episode of TV. We don't get to know much about the characters, and don't care either way about their fate (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"The director tells a haunted house tale from the perspective of the spirit in a visually interesting yet dramatically underwhelming gambit (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chase Hutchinson Collider	"Though tempered by shaky acting in key moments and an often inconsistent integration of its supernatural observer, you can’t stop watching it all unfold."
		Katie Rife IndieWire	"[A] boundary-pushing project, but the story seldom lives up to its high concept"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's an invigorating feeling to know early on in a movie that you're in confident hands, and Steven Soderbergh conveys that assurance instantaneously in the opening moments of 'Presence'"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A juicy setup that provides the adventurous filmmaker with an opportunity to play around with form while delivering elegant shivers of dread"
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"It's an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film, and it might be the best thing Soderbergh has done in ages"
		Patrice Witherspoon Screen Rant	"Without relying on cheap jump scares, Soderberg’s psychological thriller is a shattering mystery about instinct that will send chills down your spine (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"A unique and unusual ghost story, shot in an innovative way"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It's so inspiring that Soderbergh is still here making movies the way he wants to make them, playing with form in fresh and exciting ways, reminding us that he is one of film’s more remarkable storytellers"
		Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"'Presence' never feels like an effortful exertion to watch. Part of that is just Soderbergh's lean filmmaking style—no filmmaker leaves less fat on the bone than him"
		Devan Coggan Entertainment Weekly	"'Presence' is more interested in lurking dread than bloody jump scares, slowly ratcheting up the tension with long, uninterrupted takes"
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"With riotous humor and rigorous drama, 'Presence' functions as spiritual introspection in the guise of experimental horror – a unique approach that Soderbergh makes entirely his own"

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