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Side Effects, the new film from prolific director Steven Soderbergh, hit theaters on Friday. It marks his third project in 18 months, following the kinetic actioner Haywire (2012) and the surprise summer hit Magic Mike (2012). And it’s reportedly his last for theatrical release.
If that’s the case, he’ll have left behind a filmography as varied and eclectic as there is. Never one to be tied to genres or hampered by budgets, Soderbergh has effortlessly moved between disparate projects, consistently maintaining a high degree of professional craft as well as his own idiosyncratic style—a little deciphering reveals that he made highly personal films. As the world’s cinephiles hold on to the hope that he’s just bluffing again about retirement, take a look at my five favorites by Soderbergh.
