Screengrab editor emeritus Bilge Ebiri reports from the frontlines of Park City.

I’m a bit late in getting to The Girlfriend Experience, which Steven Soderbergh premiered two nights ago night at a secret Sundance Sneak Preview. (Full disclosure: I had to first write about it for my other outlet.) I was initially hesitating to review the film, simply because the director deemed it a “work in progress” and I have this weird feeling that he’s still trying to find his movie. But then everybody else went and reviewed it, so I guess that shouldn’t stop me. Yet it still sort of does: Maybe it’s because I had some more issues with it than most other writers seemed to...

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