TV commercials for virility or antidepressant medications often devote most of their two-minute spiels to describing the awful incidental maladies that may befall the pill-taker. By the end of the ...

If Side Effects, an immensely pleasurable thriller centering around psychotropic drugs, really is Steven Soderbergh’s final big-screen film, as the director claims it will be, then he has peaked in ...

A pharmaceutical commercial's list of side effects never end, spilling instead into the next commercial and the next, piling one unpleasant reality upon another, until a pill appears to make ...

I was pulled in! Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Side Effects, kept me guessing about who was good, who was bad, who might be lying, and if there really was a conspiracy afoot or if a certain someone ...