Side Effects

3.25
    Side Effects
    2013

    Synopsis

    A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

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    Cast

    • Rooney MaraEmily Taylor
    • Jude LawJonathan Banks
    • Catherine Zeta-JonesDr. Victoria Siebert
    • Channing TatumMartin Taylor
    • Vinessa ShawDierdre Banks
    • Ann DowdMrs. Taylor
    • Polly DraperEileen Spicer
    • David CostabileCarl
    • Mamie GummerKayla
    • Scott ShepherdNYPD Detective

    Recommendations

    • 83

      IndieWire

      The scenes pile up with frenetic intensity; as with Soderbergh's other recent exercises in the suspense genre, no single cutaway goes wasted.
    • 80

      Variety

      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.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Soderbergh’s alleged last theatrical film is paranoid and hopeless, but he leaves the field with a bounce in his step.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      If Side Effects, an immensely pleasurable thriller centering around psychotropic drugs, really is Steven Soderbergh's final big-screen film, as the director claims it will be, then he has peaked in the Valley of the Dolls.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      The picture's conspiratorial late-night tone and fleshy after hours luridness was practically built for watching at night, when our parents think we've gone off to bed (think '80s films directed by folks like Adrian Lyne).
    • 75

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      Steven Soderbergh, rightly considered one of Hollywood’s smartest movie makers, is at his cleverest in Side Effects, a canny, cunning big idea thriller in a minor key, an engrossing zeitgeist whodunit about Wall Street, Big Pharma, prescription drugs and the power we give psychiatry and psychologists.
    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      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.
    • 60

      Time Out

      It’s a reasonably diverting piece of work, falling somewhere between the high of "Magic Mike" (2012) and the low of "Haywire" (2011), among his recent efforts.

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