12 Best Movies of Steven Soderbergh

Haywire, the latest film from Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh is due out this weekend, and it doesn't look like anything else he's done before.  That's not terribly surprising because nothing looks like what he's done before.  If you look at his body of work, the themes sprawl from narco-political thriller to heist film to biography.  Each one has its own look and feel; each one reveals itself to be in the hands of a competent director, but he's never flashy or intrusive.  He just gets out of the way and tells a good story.  To celebrate his work, here are his twelve best films, not counting his latest:


1.   Traffic


2.   Erin Brockovich


3.   Ocean's Eleven


4.   Out of Sight


5.   Sex, Lies, and Videotape


6.   The Limey


7.   Che: Part One


8.   Contagion


9.   The Informant!


10.   Che: Part Two


11.  Ocean's 13


12.   The Good German