Soderbergh gets Lucky
There's top tier Soderbergh and like everyone else, there's middle tier. Some of his more challenging works tend to miss the mark (think Bubble or even, to some degree The Girlfriend Experience and Contagion , though the latter two are among my favorites), while some of the big crowd pleasers might be a bit thin, but I'd argue remain fun. Ocean's Eleven is a respected near-classic, but the sequels are less well-regarded. I like 'em all but I might point out here that like the Coen brothers, even the lightest of Soderbergh's work still has something worthwhile and is - as far as I can recall off the top of my head, never (or if not "never", rarely0 poorly executed. Lucky Logan is sometimes referred to as the Hillbilly Ocean's movie and while that's not entirely inaccurate, it misses some of the more salient points that make the movie a hoot and I'm not sure, but I'd say it's just a few beats away from a masterpiece (a word that I...