Steven Soderbergh's new ghost story is modest, but it's so compact, smart, and elegant that it feels quietly momentous.

Ghost stories are nothing new to horror films. Everybody has seen a movie about ghosts. “Presence” knows this and challenges ...

There is a unique concept in Presence that hasn’t entirely been explored in the genre, especially when combined with ...

Horror fans feasted well in 2024 with the year capped off by the release of Nosferatu (even if UK viewers had to wait until ...

The haunted-house thriller Presence has a formal conceit so clever, I'm surprised it hasn't ever been done or attempted before. Maybe another movie has done it that I'm not aware of. This is a ...

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s 35th feature, waiting in a vacant house for its buyers, ambitious Rebecca ...

The tingly thriller “Presence” starts with a knockout premise: What if you told a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost? Each scene in Steven Soderbergh’s impeccably crafted film is ...

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, “Presence” tests the limits of the horror genre with an emotionally thrilling ghost story.

Now, it’s time to discuss the “gimmick” of the movie. This film is told from the point-of-view of the presence. Well, that’s what it feels like although the camera basically sits there and ...

The writer Christopher Isherwood put it this way, in his novel “Goodbye to Berlin”: “I am a camera with its shutter open, ...

Smart, concise, and wonderfully wrought as only director Steven Soderbergh can do, “Presence” is a modern ghost story with ...