Scott Z. Burns

TIFF 2019: The Laundromat Review

Director Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat – starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas – is a dizzying madcap whirl that will give audiences the rinse and the spin they need.

Venice 2019: The Laundromat Review

Tamara Khodova reviews Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat – starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas – from the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Does this star-studded dramedy live up to Soderbergh's previous work?

Contagion Review

Director Steven Soderbergh takes on a deadly viral outbreak in his latest film, Contagion, with the same episodic story structure that he employed when he took on the war on drugs in Traffic. What this means is that Contagion is a very well made and often fascinating film that feels longer than it really is and it forgets about most of its characters at fairly inopportune times. The two films could really play side by side as a double bill of Soderbergh procedurals. They have almost the exact same strengths and the exact same faults.