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Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level.
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It is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work.
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A flat-out electrifying experience.
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Borderline brilliant. Tackles the war on drugs from a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
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The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
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In the scorching new film Traffic, director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs. Traffic is a huge, determined movie in every way.
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There's not a smarter, more demanding American film from the past year.
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A stunning film.
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Soderbergh's story, from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, cuts between these characters so smoothly that even a fairly complex scenario remains clear and charged with tension.
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It's a thriller that really thrills, a drama that really engages, a portrait of a world and system out of joint that is painfully convincing and totally engrossing from the first simmering minute to the last explosive second.
