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(1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Like a puzzle formed out of the fragments of one woman's complicated existence, The Girlfriend Experience is a tone poem that takes its time seducing you."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 4/5 "The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction."   CinemaBlend.com   Brian Holcomb C- "Girlfriend Experience is a palate cleanser for director Steven Soderbergh, who embarks on one of these odd "personal" films every few years when his fingers tire of counting Ocean's trilogy money."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "Soderbergh's enigmatic contraption is dependent on Ms. Grey's comfort with sex and being packaged to define her character realistically. As performances go, The Girlfriend Experience borders on documentary."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C- "Ultimately, though "The Girlfriend Experience" is a brief cultural oil check with a dipstick that you can barely read. What the film shows is that Sacha Grey can act, and Soderbergh shoots beautiful compositions."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey B- "Seems more like a sociologist's case study than anything dramatic."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Sasha Grey's participation deserves to be but a footnote in the context of a compact, fascinating, meticulously constructed motion picture with far more to offer than one unfamiliar with director Steven Soderbergh might be expecting."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "The conversations it provokes will probably be more enjoyable than the ones it depicts."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Sex is acting, it's a product, but Soderbergh's film can't illuminate its commoditization"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B+ "May not plumb the emotional depths, but in its cool, detached way it's a sharply observed commentary on the parched, incomplete relationships that result from a merely capitalist mentality."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "The director's ruthlessly unsentimental depiction of Christine's lifestyle makes for fascinating, albeit distanced, voyeurism."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 7/10 "A curious snapshot of urban America during a particular pressured time; it doesn't have a generally nice view of people, but a frankness about the film's subject drives it -- when the chips are down, it's all about business."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen B- "It is an interesting observation on all kinds of hustling in a climate of financial freefall but fails to connect on any emotional level...more enjoyable to contemplate afterwards"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/5 "His techniques are so alienating that it's difficult to decide whether we're supposed to feel something for his pretty plastic people."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2.5/4 "All the world's a financial transaction just waiting to be negotiated in The Girlfriend Experience, a handsome, frosty, rather one-note time capsule from October 2008."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "The most fascinating and provocative work that Soderbergh has done in years."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 9/10 "I do not know if history will judge this an important document of the Times In Which We Live, but it surely seems to me that it captured something vital."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1