Starring frequent collaborator and Section Eight production company partner George Clooney,  Steven Soderbergh's The Good German is on the one hand a romantic thriller, and also about the dirty complicity of the bystanders of war, of those caught up in its undertow. Still, it’s so sober and full of itself that the movie, shot by Soderbergh himself in black-and-white, might be most primarily (and charitably) described as a filmic exercise. For the full review, from FilmStew, click here.