
An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.... (Full plot summary below)
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An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.
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| Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyIt is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardBorderline brilliant. Tackles the war on drugs from a kaleidoscope of perspectives. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world. |
| Salon.comJeff StarkIn the scorching new film Traffic, director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs. Traffic is a huge, determined movie in every way. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyEnormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThere's not a smarter, more demanding American film from the past year. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSoderbergh's story, from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, cuts between these characters so smoothly that even a fairly complex scenario remains clear and charged with tension. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIt's a thriller that really thrills, a drama that really engages, a portrait of a world and system out of joint that is painfully convincing and totally engrossing from the first simmering minute to the last explosive second. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannExplosive entertainment, with the tension and volatility of its subject matter. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanTraffic is not just an ultra-procedural--it's the Big Picture, the Whole Enchilada, complete with a complicated war between two Mexican drug cartels. |