Presence is less a movie than it is a gimmick, and while I'm all for Soderbergh making smaller films, this is the latest frustrating example of his tendency to go for volume above all else.
Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house movie, shown entirely from the perspective of a ghostly guardian, has a tense and superbly acted family drama at its heart.
Thirty-five years after his debut 'sex, lies, and videotape' wowed Sundance and kicked off a new era for American indie film, the hardest-and-fastest-working auteur in movies returns to the fest to push boundaries again.