Retirement seems to have been treating Steven Soderbergh well; since he first mooted his withdrawal from film-making in 2012 — resulting in a four-year hiatus — he’s made at least one film a year since 2017. His return, however, has seen quite a different output, even for a director who came out swinging as a quicksilver talent, investigating genre after genre but never quite settling on one or another. God knows what happened in those missing years, but, with the exception of Magic Mike’s Last Dance , Soderbergh 2.0 seems to be heading in a much more personal and determinedly eccentric direction — there is seemingly no throughline that takes us here from his “comeback” (2017’s heist movie Logan Lucky ) to now. Or even from his last film, just a few months ago, the spy thriller Blac

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