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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1   ""Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos."   Beyond Hollywood   Brian Holcomb "What's unclear at the end, unfortunately, is why Soderbergh really bothered with this one."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti "Less experimental than contrary, Steven Soderbergh's Bubble offers up a series of sacrificial objects, with remarkably little sympathy for any of them."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "...an absolutely mesmerizing piece of work."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B+ "A picture that belies its ostensibly prosaic feel to give a touch of offbeat poetry to these deceptively humdrum lives."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A low-key drama set in a working-class Midwest town that zeroes in on the dangers inherent in jealousy - a strange brew of hostility and attachment."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 56/100 "Often feels like a bootleg version of Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake, with the same conflicted female central character who eventually pays for her sins."   eCinemaCenter.com   Gabe Leibowitz 3/4 "There's an honesty in what Soderbergh's camera has captured that, while not real in the strictest sense of the term, is nevertheless true-to-life."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "staggeringly clueless"   Filmcritic.com   Jay Antani 8/10 "Feels harsh but not false, thanks largely to its dedication to the creation of an authentic pitiable and insular world."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen "When a director is as talented and successful as Steven Soderbergh, I suppose he's entitled to occasionally be a little self-indulgent, but there are limits to what an audience should have to tolerate."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox "Anybody looking for Ocean's Thirteen is going to be sorely disappointed."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 1.5/4 "Oozes an anonymous contempt sadly appropriate to director Steven Soderbergh's post-Limey artistic downward spiral."   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich B+ "a thoroughly engrossing character study of the blue collar Heartland that plays as if Junebug's Phil Morrison had directed a non-musical likeness of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "Ultimately, Bubble is less important as a film than as an experiment in simultaneous cross-platform film distribution."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/5 "Realism is the main thing -- the only thing, really -- that this film has going for it."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/4 "As a portrait of low-class desperation, Bubble is nothing short of haunting."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Slyly unfurls in ambiguous, multiple-interpretation fashion."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Fascinante estudo de personagens, Bubble não é um filme marcado por ações, mas por sutilezas."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "Among Soderbergh's worst films."   Film Threat   Phil Hall 4.5/5 "Soderbergh's sure-handed work here is a breath of fresh air, shattering cliches to tell a deceptively simple story from Middle America"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline A "...an astonishingly unnerving piece of humanist cinema."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte B "[Steven Soderbergh] is back to basics and this is a refreshing and daring thing to do."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3.5/5 "Certainly not bound for cineplex glory, but it's an 80-minute indie experiment that goes from mildly compelling to surprisingly engaging in rather subtle fashion."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 2.5/4 "It's a slight film, to be sure, but this understated and plaintive depiction of a romantic triangle gone fatally awry in rural Ohio is much more involving -- and less annoying -- than the idiosyncratic filmmaker's past 'experiments.'"   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1