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Blanchett gets everything right -- the accent, her German dialogue, the weary sexuality (deliberately reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich) and the amorality her character has embraced.
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The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
Soderbergh's homage to film noir and wartime thrillers, is technically stunning but narratively and thematically hollow.
For actor and director, the project seems like trying on a new coat, and it doesn't fit either of them.
It does get mired in its obsession with its own style.
In his genre pastiche The Good German, Steven Soderbergh has tried to resurrect the magic of classical Hollywood, principally by sucking out all the air, energy and pleasure from his own filmmaking.
Steven Soderbergh's new film is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside a perversity. The puzzle is Mr. Soderbergh's approach to what might have been an intriguing experiment, rather than the off-putting one it turned out to be.
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You, the viewer, will find boredom.
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