The Girlfriend Experience, Steven Soderbergh, 2009

While its 78 minutes unquestionably feel more like a half-realized exercise than a genuine artistic statement, Soderbergh's week-in-the-life sketch of one high end call girl displays an assuredness markedly absent from the director's recent oeuvre. Lightly reminiscent of Gus Van Sant's triumphant Elephant in structure and tone, an elliptically constructed series of interludes allows Soderberg's film to develop with Polaroid pace.