Steven Soderbergh

Americans get accused of being philistines when it comes to art...This is the only place in the world that audiences are seeing the Roadshow Version, because all the distributors everywhere else in the world said, 'Nobody in our country will go see that.'

Sincere performances--under the director's sympathetic eye--allow humanity to overshadow the machinery of plot.

Still-relevant political observation...[and] a nifty mystery that's a bit too self-conscious for its own good.

A complex production mounted, with confidence and a scrupulous eye for detail, by one of our great American filmmakers.

Finds Soderbergh keeping it simple, stupid, by filling the story's hollowness with kick-butt action and elements of style.

To revisit King of the Hill—or to discover it—is to realize how seldom American cinema deems it worthwhile to tell a child's story with anything approaching serious psychological intent.

Soderbergh’s here to have fun, and his mood is contagious.