Every Steven Soderbergh Movie Ranked Worst To Best

22. Gray's Anatomy (1996)

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IFC Films

Soderbergh's style didn't quite mesh with Spalding Gray's, an actor known for his typically brilliant autobiographical monologues on both stage and screen.

Gray's Anatomy works as a typical Spalding Gray affair, as he lets loose with a series of interwoven monologues concerning a recent medical diagnosis and his journey to find the appropriate care.

It's a funny, engaging work from a man who everyone should really seek out (there was no one else like him, and following his suicide aged 62 Soderbergh made a great documentary about him) moving seamlessly between comedy and tragedy.

All told, the concert film is slightly let down by Soderbergh's inconsistent directional style, which never settles on a single tone and distracts from Gray's dialogue with an odd mesh of colours, but there's enough there from both men to make Gray's Anatomy a strange but enjoyable experience.

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