The Informant!

THE INFORMANT! (2009) - January 1, 2010
After the disappointing and relentlessly dull Girlfriend Experience, there was really nowhere to go but up for Steven Soderbergh, and this was certainly a step up.  About a executive who turns informant for the FBI, this featured expectedly primo direction and cinematography from Steven Soderbergh.  I'm normally not a particularly big fan of the somewhat overexposed visual style Soderbergh employs here, however he somehow makes it work.  I also quite liked Marvin Hamlisch's quirky score, which I think did a good job of underscoring how out of touch with reality Matt Damon's character tended to be.  The whole movie is sort of quirky and odd, which I liked -- it took a story which otherwise would have made for a generic corporate thriller, and turned it into something unique.  ***1/2