Side Effects trailer (Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law)

[bluerose]

First reviews indicate its a good, well acted thriller but nothing special:

Ultimately too clever for its own good,
but if you can accept the film's poker-faced absurdity on its own terms, you'll appreciate Soderbergh and his cast's cool confidence.

- Screen International

Like Magic Mike, Side Effects is enlivened by Soderbergh's jazzy style and laidback moralism, bringing to mind the work of another connoisseur of genre, Robert Altman.

Slant Magazine

Explores interesting ideas within the world of psychiatry and pharmaceuticals by transplanting them into a classic thriller setting

ComingSoon.net

[DirkDiggler]

Variety

What begins as a barbed satire of our pill-popping, self-medicating society morphs into something intriguingly different in "Side Effects." Steven Soderbergh's elegantly coiled puzzler spins a tale of clinical depression and psychiatric malpractice into an absorbing, cunningly unpredictable entertainment that, like much of his recent work, closely observes how a particular subset of American society operates in a needy, greedy, paranoid and duplicitous age. Discriminating arthouse audiences not turned off by the antidepressant-heavy subject matter should be held shrink-rapt by what Soderbergh, after years of flirting with retirement, has said will be his last picture "for a long time."

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117949073/
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I personally give the film a B+ btw.

[DirkDiggler]

Film.com gives it an A-
http://www.film.com/movies/side-effects-review

[bigmoney]

Go Jude !

[fallglimmer32]

I enjoyed it, but it felt to me like they could have tightened things up a bit. I'm not sure what they could have removed really, but it felt like they were going for a thriller but it wasn't really very thrilling imo.

[haqyunus]

It is a 'NYT Critics' Pick' as well. Can't wait...Nemo has prevented me to watch it this weekend and now I have to wait till the next...

[caseyfan14]

I really liked Side Effects. Like the last three Soderbergh releases (Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike), Side Effects is very solid and has great acting. It's meticulous, but is missing something, which I'm not quite sure of. Regardless, I highly recommend it.

[fallglimmer32]

I really liked Side Effects. Like the last three Soderbergh releases (Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike), Side Effects is very solid and has great acting. It's meticulous, but is missing something, which I'm not quite sure of. Regardless, I highly recommend it.

it seemed kind of cold in a way that it maybe didn't need to be? The detached clinical thing he has been doing maybe wasn't the best for the movie...idk, that is where I'm at right now. I liked it but I'm struggling to figure out why I didn't like it more.

[clearwatergirl]

I wish another actress was cast as the lead, in fact I wonder how Blake Lively would have done in the role. Rooney Mara has a very inexpressive face and seems to play most of her roles the same way... Stiff, stone faced with emotionless line delivery. It worked for TGWTDT but now it's getting boring. Other than that, I liked the movie a lot even though I've found a lot of Steven Soderbergh's recent movies hard to get into. Jude Law gave an amazing performance and Ann Dowd was a lovely surprise.

[bryan1311]

Guys,new have a review thread. Let's move that discussion there.

[jeanne_dielman]

I wish another actress was cast as the lead, in fact I wonder how Blake Lively would have done in the role. Rooney Mara has a very inexpressive face and seems to play most of her roles the same way... Stiff, stone faced with emotionless line delivery. It worked for TGWTDT but now it's getting boring. Other than that, I liked the movie a lot even though I've found a lot of Steven Soderbergh's recent movies hard to get into. Jude Law gave an amazing performance and Ann Dowd was a lovely surprise.

LMFAO, Blake Lively asked for too much money. Megan Ellison, who was then attached to the project, backed out soon thereafter because of Lively.

[Vincent Blanchett]

LMFAO, Blake Lively asked for too much money. Megan Ellison, who was then attached to the project, backed out soon thereafter because of Lively.

B-list TV actress Blake Lively asked for more money than Oscar-nominated Legend Rooney Mara?! What is the world coming to?

[clearwatergirl]

LMFAO, Blake Lively asked for too much money. Megan Ellison, who was then attached to the project, backed out soon thereafter because of Lively.

Too much money? That isn't true at all, I am not sure where you get your information.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...re-new-options

[HollyG]

Too much money? That isn't true at all, I am not sure where you get your information.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...re-new-options

.” In fact, Ellison had agreed to do so and press releases went out announcing the film. You’ll recall we reported that Blake Lively was initially cast in the lead role and that Annapurna was picking up the tab – something that Vanity Fair confirms – but evidently due to Lively’s outrageous salary demands, Ellison got angry and pulled the plug 12 weeks before shooting was supposed to start (we'd heard some of this drama led to Rooney Mara eventually landing the lead role).

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...ostHeaderPanel

[jeanne_dielman]

Too much money? That isn't true at all, I am not sure where you get your information.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...re-new-options

From the same link:

Variety's report doesn't state reasons why Annapurna backed away, but well-placed sources tell us it had to do with the casting of Blake Lively as a troubled young woman who develops a dangerous love triangle between her doctor (Jude Law) and her newly paroled husband (Channing Tatum).

And yes, from HollyG's link as well.

[McTeague]

I’m appalled kissfromarose isn’t commenting on the great reviews Her Legendness Mara is getting:

Time:

The movie holds all kinds of feints and decoys, but its biggest surprise is Mara. After her mannered, vacant performance in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, people like me wondered: Why is she in movies? The answer: To make this one. Caressed by golden hues in the sunny flashbacks, appearing wan and frail in some of Emily’s darker moments, Mara proves worthy of Soderbergh’s closeup attention. Emily may not always be reliable; her descriptions of her symptoms — “Every afternoon at three, there’s this poisonous fog bank, rolling in on my mind” — have the whiff of a borrowed epigram (William Styron’s, from Darkness Visible). But, surrounded by some of Soderbergh’s favorite actors, Mara makes her peculiarly watchable; viewers scan her face for clues to a woman as elusive as she is smart.

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/0...=ent-main-lead

LA Times:

Front and center in this scenario is Emily Taylor, played, in her most effective starring performance yet, by Mara, an actress of equal parts feral intensity and impenetrable mystery, who displays a wider array of emotions than she was able to in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/02/08...f=movies&_r=1&

NY Times:

Ms. Mara, fine-boned and fragile-looking, but with a deep reservoir of scary intensity (see “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”), moves through her scenes with a blunted, haunted affect, and Emily stirs the protective instincts of the audience,

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/02/08...f=movies&_r=1&

Travers:

And Soderbergh lucks out with actors who stay keenly attuned to his wicked vision. There's no turning away from the seductively enigmatic Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) as she reels us into the anxieties of Emily Taylor.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/r...#ixzz2Khwo4US2

AV Club:

Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle.

Oh, the poor souls who wished she'd vanish after her break through!

[jb]

She buys critical acclaim.

[Vincent Blanchett]

kissfromarose, time to start campaigning for Legend Mara's Halfway INOCA Best Actress award!

[Sliced Peach]

Mara's performance sounds very interesting indeed.