But he hasn’t made a great movie since 2017, when he brought Logan Lucky into the world. Soderbergh has made a lot of movies in the past 20 years. He writes meta-comic action like it’s a daily journal entry. I probably made that clear when I wrote about Ocean’s Eleven a few weeks ago. No one in this century does heists like Steven Soderbergh. How do you find the balance between a good hang and an edge-of-your-seat story? Make a heist and it gets way easier. And that’s just post-2000! Heists have the unique ability to engender high stakes and suspense while evoking an easy-breezy, slicked-back cool that almost every movie since the dawn of Film Noir has been trying to achieve.
It’s difficult for me to write these after a Mizzou Football road victory and not think of heist movies.Ĭall me one-note.
