Rotten
It's difficult to escape the impression that the movie is impressed only with its cleverness.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Side Effects
One pill can change your life.
2013 · 1h 46m
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Overview
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Director and cast
- Steven Soderbergh Director
- Rooney Mara as Emily Taylor
- Jude Law as Jonathan Banks
- Channing Tatum as Martin Taylor
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Dr. Victoria Siebert
- Vinessa Shaw as Dierdre Banks
- David Costabile as Carl Millbank
- Polly Draper as Eileen Spicer
- Andrea Bogart as Tracey Sutton
- Mamie Gummer as Kayla
- Ann Dowd as Martin's Mother
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Once Side Effects gets into its crime story, medication is swept aside by movie nonsense. The storyline goes into tangles that have to be dealt with very rapidly if the audience is not to start laughing.
David Thomson, The New Republic
Fresh
As a thriller in the Hitchcock mould, 'Side Effects' is great fun: its characters are well acted without being entirely likeable, which makes their jeopardy all the more enjoyable while putting us at a clinical remove.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Fresh
Soderbergh is less interested in making statements than he is in skillfully fulfilling genre expectations.
Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic
Fresh
A crafty teaser that presents itself as one kind of film before gradually evolving into another kind altogether. I, for one, enjoyed both enormously.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
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