Every Steven Soderbergh Movie Ranked Worst To Best
5. Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape was Soderbergh's first feature film, and remains today as one of the finest directorial debuts ever made.
Since 1989, Soderbergh's films have grown more elaborate, his stories larger and his style more confident. But Sex, Lies and Videotape is still one of his most astounding achievements, a small but intense character piece about a man called Graham (James Spader) who gets more pleasure from people talking about sex than the act itself.
The film charts the downfall of a married couple (Peter Gallagher and Andie MacDowell), a secretive sibling rivalry and Graham's impact on those around him.
It's an assured and moody movie about longing, identity and emotional turmoil, directed as an intimate, strange meditation on desire and honesty.
Sex, Lies and Videotape is a film Soderbergh has rarely topped. And, at least as a character study, it could be argued he still hasn't...