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2009
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4.5
Though The Girlfriend Experience doesnt achieve the same depthGrey, for one, cant hope to match Terence Stamp or Peter Fonda for gravitasits seductive ..
Av Club
4.5
Creators Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz built a boundary pushing series specifically to immerse viewers in a world they likely dont know and definitel ..
Indie Wire
4.5
Aimee Spinks / Starz No matter what flaws viewers may find, the look wont be one of them.
Indie Wire
2.5
As with many of Soderberghs films, orderly continuity is thrown out the window in favor of a more cut and paste narrative that leads us through the st ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Much of that comes from Azaria, who proves yet again that hes a master of fully immersive comic genius.
Austin Chronicle
4.0
Naturalistic performances and stylish, semi documentary style cinematography and editing (both courtesy of the director) make for an engrossing, insig ..
Time Out
4.0
If theres drama here, its in the sense that this fragile world may be coming apart.
Screen Daily
4.5
If theres drama here, its in the sense that this fragile world may be coming apart.
Screen Daily
4.5
This isnt even touching on Seimetzs directorial debut, Sun Dont Shine, which was one of the very best features of 2013, the same year that Upstream Co ..
Collider
4.5
Sure, one could see this as a reflection of what its like to have a personal, intimate project fall through the cracks, but in the moment, its somethi ..
Collider
4.0
Soderbergh successfully nails his targets and its a strong and often beautiful indictment of Americas commoditization of feelings.
Paste Magazine
5.0
This film is true about human nature.It clearly sees needs and desires.
Rogerebert
3.0
Steven Soderbergh is very much in experimental mode with this chilly, downbeat Manhattan drama, featuring porn megastar Sasha Grey as Chelsea, a high ..
Telegraph
3.5
Sasha Grey isnt the actress this movie deserves, but maybe shes the actress it needs.
Cinema Blend
4.0
For some escorts the sex can be enjoyable, while for others it remains an out of body experience.
Cinema Blend
2.0
Its remarkable that anyone would take these chances, given the horrors they capture.
Ny Daily News
3.8
This is one of the directors small, experimental, semi improvised provocations, and if it doesnt push too deep, its pointed enough to leave a mark.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
You dont know how much you miss actors until you watch a movie with so many neophytes, who are for the most part stiff and unreadable.
Philly
3.1
Coldly voyeuristic, the film is a piece of cultural anthropology that doesnt even pretend to get into the soul of its characters.
Philly
3.2
It has some interesting reflections, but is uneven, lacking in gravitas and never gets to anything emotionally meaningful.
Sover
3.8
Most recently he has gone from a slick Hollywood sequel (Oceans Thirteen) to a very unconventional four hour biopic in Spanish (Che) to this tiny dram ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
This drama about a high priced call girl is his second installment, and like the first, its a modest success that makes one wish Soderbergh could find ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
There is also little drama because nothing much really happens.It is an interesting low budget cinematic experiment, but I just couldnt work up much e ..
Lariat
3.2
The conversations it provokes will probably be more enjoyable than the ones it depicts.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Despite the subject matter and casting, the movie seems an oddly tepid affair.
Radio Times
5.0
It doesnt say anything too deep, but it says it with crystalline style.
Independent
2.0
What Soderberghs film wants to say is uncertain: That a prostitute has business problems like everyone else
Independent
3.8
What makes The Girlfriend Experience a fresh provocation is not the new ways available to build a fantasy but the near impossibility of negotiating on ..
Rolling Stone
3.5
Whats amazing is the way the filmmakers spin this simple premise into an effectively freaky little movie.
Shadows On The Wall
3.5
Luca DAlberto latest album Exile releases today and its another stunningly affective work.
Pop Matters
4.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsDirected by Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience stars porn star Sasha Grey as Chelsea, a h ..
View London
4.5
The chameleonic Steven Soderbergh has long made a practice of surfing between big commercial projects and low budget experiments.
Film Journal
4.4
What could seem an empty stylistic exercise (and was, in the directors 2002 Full Frontal) serves to bring a fresh urgency to the tale, ultimately gran ..
Boston
2.5
To be honest, Sasha Grey is a face in search of an expression and the whole movie depends on her performance.
Smh
4.5
The Girlfriend Experience proves that a visually striking film can be made on the fly.
Npr
1.0
I dont think Steven Soderbergh has ever missed quite as badly as this: a shallow, negligent piece of work, badly acted and casually put together With ..
Guardian
2.0
This dull account of a few days in the life of a highly paid Manhattan call girl and her lover, a badly paid personal trainer, is set during the run u ..
Guardian
3.5
Steven Soderbergh, who continues to bounce around his eclectic directorial spectrum, lands on his artistic indie side with The Girlfriend Experience.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
The movie has the fascination of a documentary about a fictional character.
Ew
4.5
Sasha Grey gives a sympathetic performance as the ultimate fantasy with a stand out debut.
Cinema Crazed
2.5
Unlike Soderberghs last experiment, the four hour biopic Che, this one is small in every sense: 77 minutes long, shot on digital video, improvised fro ..
Slate
3.0
One of the experimental pictures Steven Soderbergh makes between bigger projects, this is an account of a few days in the life of a call girl (Sasha G ..
Empire
4.5
You keep waiting for Suze Orman to pop up and take her aside and give her a talking to about Roth IRAs, but nothing even that flashy ever goes down.Oh ..
Movies
3.1
And like its predecessor, as well as last years four hour, two part Che, its defined by emotional detachment, its story about the daily trials and tri ..
Slant Magazine
3.8
It is all a means to an end, but said ending is neither predetermined nor guaranteed to be happy.
The Movie Boy
3.2
Laura Clifford Laura Clifford Sophisticated Manhattanite Chelsea (Sasha Grey, Cum Buckets! 8, Sasha Greys Anatomy) is out on a date with her very weal ..
Reeling Reviews
3.0
That mood comes at the expense of any emotional involvement, though, and the fractured structure means that even the simple plot can be difficult to p ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
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Total Film
3.8
The fascination with the film is that it offers an arms length opportunity to peer through a peephole into a lifestyle that will be exotic and allurin ..
ReelViews
2.2
What the film shows is that Sacha Grey can act, and Soderbergh shoots beautiful compositions.
Coles Mithey
2.5
But viewers prepared for a slow moving and thoughtful exploration of loss will be rewarded with one of the best films of the year.
Reel Film
2.5
Although its fractured chronology long ago became an indie film cliche, Soderbergh does some fresh things with sight and sound.The visuals (all captur ..
Nj
5.0
But its exactly the sort of intellectual and emotional challenge that makes me still love the cinema.
Movie Habit
4.5
It credits the audience with the ability to simply let it be what it is.
Hey U Guys
3.1
This is the same man who made Che Guevara seem more like a jungle poet than a revolutionary icon in last years passion deprived Che.
The Star
3.5
Soderbergh also shot and edited the film, giving it an often jerky feel that succeeds at making you feel that life is indeed a bumpy ride.
Urban Cine File
3.8
For those inclined to follow down every nook and cranny of his career, it will be a welcome reminder of how restlessly probing he can be about matters ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
In its refusal to favour people over objects, this distanced style is closer to Taiwanese art cinema than to a Hollywood star vehicle such as Erin Bro ..
The Age
3.0
And though it isnt fully satisfying, it does prove teasing in unexpected ways.
Digital Spy
1.3
TIME for another of Steven Soderberghs experimental, i.e., half assed, films.
New York Post
1.5
When Avery slips Christine a fat envelope of cash in the middle of a double date with her boyfriends middle aged pal, theres not so much as an awww, h ..
Tv Line
2.2
The Boogie Nights days of struggling actors turning to adult film is long over, leaving Greys teeth grindingly amateurish performance an unnecessary e ..
Brian Or Ndorf
5.0
Moreover, he doesnt spare himself the scrutiny implicitly challenging the bond audiences would have with directors who breeze through with entertainme ..
The Filmy Ap
3.1
A visually stylish, sexy and provocative film thats emotionally cold, yet oddly intriguing.
Nyc Movie Guru
4.3
Why Not: The movie is so dark and serious that summer moviegoers who are looking for fun, escapist entertainment might be disappointed.
ComingSoon
3.5
Apply the reductive logic to your own life and profession, as Soderbergh has to filmmaking.
Film Comment
3.0
The slightly pathetic phrase girlfriend experience is the one johns apply to hookers who are prepared to pamper them with kindness rather than just pe ..
Sky
3.0
In other words he moves fast and doesnt always leave fingerprints.
Sbs
3.0
This weeks TLS October 5, 2018 America on the brink; a new poem by Paul Muldoon; the journalism of Javier Marias; making the medieval modern; female l ..
Entertainment Times Online ..
2.0
This weeks TLS October 5, 2018 America on the brink; a new poem by Paul Muldoon; the journalism of Javier Marias; making the medieval modern; female l ..
Entertainment Times Online ..
2.0
There are layers upon layers here a porn star taking on a serious acting role in which she plays a woman whose job is to make herself an object of mal ..
New Republic
2.0
But as the hero of an outlandish sci fi thriller, he lacks imagination and dash.
Ny Mag
3.0
The way this hopelessness is weaved into the narrative should probably feel like a triumph for the film; but unfortunately it is not a hopelessness fi ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
3.8
It comes complete with close ups of rain falling in Central Park at daybreak, carefully observed views of shiny, slick storefronts and intimate, lamp ..
Critics Notebook
2.5
But director Christophe van Rompaey nurtures this storys hint of originality.
Articles Baltimore Sun
3.5
But the affectless lead actress and a manipulative script undermine some of the fine, fascinating work Soderbergh conjures.
Blog Oregonlive
3.5
Its all part of the game: enticing but frustrating, the ultimate tease.
Oc Register
3.8
The Girlfriend Experience is a fascinating character study that sheds new light on the tumultuous times in which we live.
Washington Times
2.0
Colettes story lacks the diabolical complexity of Liasons, or the subtlety of Age of Innocence.In the end, its a simple May December romance, nicely a ..
Ma Cleans
3.5
Theyre something colder than despair, because despair requires a measure of humanity.
Mubi
3.5
Set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial wreck and race for the White House, this film has as much to say about the shakiness of high end profes ..
James Wegg Review
4.0
The goal is to capture the rawness of life unmediated through conventional story telling elements.
Louis Proyect Word Press
3.0
Soderbergh is always interesting when he strips it back, but his intriguing artful essay on buying intimacy wont get you off.
Empire Online
4.5
This is not an unrealistic attitude for characters to take, but a movie about such characters shouldnt take it at face value.
Stop Smiling Online
2.0
Its ... hard not to wonder if a skilled actress would have been better equipped to play Christine instead of a famous porn star but reality seems to b ..
Time Out Sydney
4.2
This is not a movie about sex, as much as you might want it to be.
Leitch Tumblr
4.4
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Capital Times (Madison, WI ..
1.9
Unfortunately, the mostly hollow Girlfriend Experience fails to deliver on its promise.
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