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The Girlfriend Experience

2009

Steven Soderbergh

Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Peter Zizzo, Timothy J. Cox ...

5.0

3,551

Drama A drama set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, and centered on a high-end Manhattan call girl meeting the challenges of her boyfriend, her clients, and her work. Her name is Chelsea (actress Sasha Grey, a real life porn-star) and she charges $2000 an hour.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"To say it objectifies Ms. Grey, who is very young (just 21) and very pretty, would be more plot summary than critique (...) It is by turns tryingly obvious and irritatingly oblique"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This film is true about human nature. It clearly it sees needs and desires. It is not universal, but within its particular focus, it is unrelenting. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein New York Magazine	"Most of the dialogue is listless, and no matter how much Soderbergh snips and stitches, the movie is a corpse with twitching limbs."	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Soderbergh does not invite you to really enter the world of his character but rather to observe a character with a tight rein on her emotions."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Times	"The film presents something of a challenge. The characters are almost all shallow, while little of any significance happens. And yet there is something compelling about the film’s glassy banality."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I don't think Steven Soderbergh has ever missed quite as badly as this: a shallow, negligent piece of work, badly acted and casually put together (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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