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Saturday 21 December 2013

SIDE EFFECTS [2013]

Director Steven Soderbergh crafts a very Hitchcock-ian psychological thriller with the twisty 'n turny Side Effects.
Rooney Mara towers over the rest of the cast with a stunning performances as a mentally ill young woman that is both sympathetically frightening and disturbingly mournful.  Soderbergh paces each reveal and scene with compelling and intense delicacy that proves when given the right script he can do much more than just style over substance.  It starts to lose it's balance a bit with all the weight it's carrying in the final act but makes up for it with intrigue and mystery.

4 sleepwalkers out of 5

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