Scripted, shot, directed and edited by Soderbergh with his customary intelligence and assurance, this is perhaps the most ambiguous and cerebrally sophisticated Hollywood movie in nearly three decades.

Anomalous and mesmerising.

With audacity and style, Steven Soderbergh has revisited one of Russian cinema's landmarks, and done so very successfully.

Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 remake isn’t necessary, but is nonetheless all the more in the spirit of the original’s vision of reality, and of itself, by being an ersatz copy.