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Caryn James, New York Times: Too chaotic to work as a thriller. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: What The Underneath lacks is the kind of emotional connection that the best film noirs have. Instead of involving, this film is distancing, too given to admiring its own shiny surface. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Why did Soderbergh want to remake an old film noir, anyway? Take out the crime elements and flesh out the human elements here, and you have a more interesting movie, I think. Read more
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle: The film may turn out to have been more of a stylistic adventure for the director than for an audience. Read more
Joe Brown, Washington Post: Downbeat, laconically funny, arty (maybe a touch too arty), it's simmering, smoldering lowlife fun, like a good episode of Twin Peaks without the self-conscious weirdness. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: As tales of sex and sinfulness go, Soderbergh's fourth film doesn't deliver. Read more