Solaris

Writer-director-cinematographer Steven Soderbergh's determination to remake Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed 1972 sci-fi mindbender without sacrificing the story's essential philosophical underpinnings or the original's extraordinary aesthetics is certainly a noble gesture, but the result is a big, beautiful bore. Earth, sometime in the near future. Psychiatrist Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is a grief counselor who's having difficulty recovering from a devastating tragedy of his own: the suicide of his beautiful but troubled wife, Rheya (Natascha McElhone). Kelvin is roused from his torpor by a desperate summons from his friend Dr. Gibarian (Ulrich Tukur), who's orbitin...