{"id":2638,"date":"2013-03-08T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:38:06","slug":"side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/03\/08\/side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Side Effects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema

\nRelease date:<\/B> 8 March 2013

\nVenues:<\/B> UK wide

\nDistributor:<\/B> Entertainment One

\nDirector:<\/B> Steven Soderbergh

\nWriter:<\/B> Scott Z. Burns

\nCast:<\/B> Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law

\nUSA 2013

\n106 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A dizzying, dazzling affair at times, bearing witness to Steven Soderbergh\u2019s craftsmanship, Side Effects<\/i> might be compelling in the heat of the moment but, like a bad drug, it\u2019s a quick fix that leaves you all the more frustrated afterwards. <\/p>\n

Emily (Rooney Mara) should be nothing but happy since her husband Martin (Channing Tatum) has just been released from prison after a four-year sentence for insider trading. And she tries to be, duly swallowing every pill her friends, family and doctors recommend, but she can\u2019t help feeling down: Martin\u2019s return has brought back her long-suppressed depression, which soon pushes her to hurt not just herself but those around her. When after a long sleep on a new antidepressant she finds her husband stabbed to death, she can\u2019t seem to remember a thing. Suddenly all eyes are on her psychiatrist (Jude Law), who prescribed the medication and emerges as the outlaw in a mix of pharmaceutical cover-up story, conventional psycho-thriller, unpredictable plot twists and wayward solutions. <\/p>\n

Emily\u2019s subtle transformation from the troubled loving wife to diabolical femme fatale<\/i> is a little rocky, but a confident cast and their director largely keep the film aloft: it\u2019s another genre exercise for Soderbergh that he has managed to pull off with the help of his Hollywood friends to entertaining, if ultimately rather underwhelming, effect. <\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

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A dizzying, dazzling affair at times, Side Effects<\/i> is like a bad drug, a compelling quick fix that leaves you all the more frustrated afterwards.
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