In the following review, Turan offers a generally positive assessment of Traffic, but highlights some of the film's flaws, such as weak individual characterization and moments of melodrama.
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In the following review, Kauffmann offers a generally positive assessment of Traffic.
Steven Soderbergh prospers, and his prospering is a chapter in recent cultural history. He made his debut in 19...
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In the following mixed review, Romney argues that although Traffic is gripping, it fails to achieve a dispassionate feel.
In the course of his career, Steven Soderbergh has gone from being a well-m...
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In the following interview, Soderbergh discusses the making of Traffic and his shift away from independent films to directing Hollywood features.
He used to be everybody's favorite indie mav...
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As of 2001 the DEA employed a workforce of over 4,500 special agents, out of a total of over 9,000 personnel, and operated with a budget of US$1.55 billion. It had 20 field divisions throughout the Un...
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Traffic is a drama about the consequences and ironies that happen all the time in the drug dealing business. It presents various situations in which almost everyone is involved with drug problems. ...
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Movies are meant to bring out a whole host of emotions in a variety of ways: excitement, resentment, comedy, horror, elation, depression, suspicion, surprise...fight, goal, discovery, incarceration, n...
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Foes of the Brooklyn Nets arena have had a hard time linking it to the West Side stadium fight or turning it into a West Side-style showdown. After all, the arena is smaller, the project includes l...
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In the moments before Donald Trump barreled through a packed house at Michael Kors' runway show last week, a thin man stood in the center of the tent, mindlessly patting his starchy coif. It was Au...
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Driving down a sharp descent in the Tibetan mountains, Mian Chin knew she was in trouble when the brakes failed on her tour bus and she heard the driver declare in Mandarin Chinese, "We are going t...
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There’s a half-billion dollars sitting in Washington with New York’s name on it. But thanks to Democratic State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and some small minds in the State Legis...
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Critical Review by Kenneth Turan
An Analytical Review of the Film "Traffic" Through Technique
Brooklyn Traffic
