“Solaris” isn’t a fast-moving action picture; it’s a thoughtful, deep, sensitive movie that uses the freedom of, science-fiction to examine human nature. It starts slow, but once you get involved, it grows on you.

Jan 19, 2003 · I saw his 1972 film “Solaris” at the Chicago Film Festival that year. It was my first experience of Tarkovsky, and at first I balked. It was long and slow and the dialogue seemed …

Nov 22, 2002 · At a time when many American movies pump up every fugitive emotion into a clanging assault on the audience, Soderbergh’s “Solaris” is quiet and introspective. There are some shocks …

Aug 15, 1997 · The obvious inspiration for “Event Horizon” is a much better film, Andrei Tarkovsky’s “ Solaris ” (1972), where a space station orbits a vast planet. The planet in that film is apparently alive, …

Jan 1, 1998 · What they get in the film version of “Sphere,” directed by Barry Levinson, is a watered-down take on the sci-fi classic Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem, which was made into an immeasurably …

Jul 27, 2011 · The movie is as thought-provoking, in a less profound way, than Tarkovsky’s “Solaris,” another film about a sort of parallel Earth. In this one, when a scientist makes a call to Earth 2 and …

Feb 28, 2014 · So it’s slightly peculiar to me that “Stalingrad,” the new movie directed by Fedor Bondarchuk (the son of the great Russian classicist director Sergei Bondarchuk, and the half-brother …