We've been described as being too niche with some of our picks, so we've sold out and gone mainstream for this week's pick.

Solaris is a ponderous, nearly 3-hour, Russian science fiction from 1972. If just reading that gives you pause, there's at least one member of the GBR crew that agrees with you. However, revered as an influential masterwork, Andrei Tarkovsky's difficult film was remade by American auteur Steven Soderbergh in 2002, starring George Clooney. At almost half the length, the question is, can it retain the philosphical spirit of the earlier film, or is it a cynical cash grab?



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