These days, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh seems to be churning out movies at a rate of one per year. It’s easy to forget that he announced his “retirement” in 2013. The man is definitely not retired anymore, as yet another one of his films is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
“No Sudden Move” was written by Ed Solomon (Soderbergh’s “Mosaic“), and will be part of the Centerpiece Gala at this year’s festival, set to run June 9-20.This one has a stunning ensemble, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm, Matt Damon, Julia Fox, Kieran Culkin, Ray Liotta, and Amy Seimetz. The plot, according to IMDB, has to do with a group of criminals brought together under mysterious circumstances who have to work together to uncover what’s really going on when a heist goes awry.
It’s arguable no other director has transcended multiple genres the way Soderbergh has, especially over the last decade. The prolific director can go from psychological thriller, to drama, to comedy, albeit never allowing the films to lose that vitally visual Soderbergh touch. As mentioned. Soderbergh retired in early 2013, clarifying that he had a five-year plan that saw him transitioning away from making feature films when he reached his 50th birthday. And yet, here we are, at the start of a decade, and, so much for retirement, the legendary filmmaker ended up releasing 12 movies these past 11 years.
My rankings: (1) The Informant (2) Behind the Candelabra (3) Logan Lucky (4) The Girlfriend Experience (5) Contagion (6) The Laundromat (7) Haywire (8) Let Them All Talk (9) Unsane (10) Magic Mike (11) High Flying Bird (12) Side Effects
Of course, none of these hold a candle to the work Soderbergh was doing during the peak of his career, that is between 1998-2002 when he released “Out of Sight,” “The Limey,” “Traffic,” Erin Brokovich,” “Ocean’s Eleven,” and “Solaris” in the span of five years.