Presence

As with Kimi and Unsane, Soderbergh occasionally has more fun with the constraints than we do. There’s nothing as compelling or creepy as Kristen Stewart’s dance with the unseen in Personal Shopper.

I love that after all these decades as a filmmaker, Soderbergh still likes to do these cool little experimental larks.

It's a gimmick... But it's a good gimmick, not one I had really seen before.

'Presence' squanders the talents of David Koepp and Steven Soderbergh in a lifeless, cliché-ridden ghost story that delivers neither scares nor suspense.


It’s a highly controlled piece of filmmaking and the climax is incredibly scary. I can’t say it has me believing in ghosts, but it does put the case with a disarming sophistication.

If the downside of working as fast as Soderbergh does is how scrappy the films sometimes feel, here the rough finish fits the form: a smart quick-fire frightener from a ghost in the Hollywood machine.

A really cool concept with so many talented actors. However, that's about as far as it goes.

...an intriguing cinematic experiment that may engage only a select group of audiences but disappoint those expecting genuine horror.

While Soderbergh is inconsistent in his attempt at manufacturing a tale of silent familial dysfunction and misery, Presence as a project still holds value.

This simple, elegantly told ghost story—in which the camera takes the ghost's point of view—relies on vivid characters and emotional situations, suffering only from a somewhat thin climax.