The Good German sure looked terrific, and Cate Blanchett did a great job channeling Dietrich and Bergman... but it was all in service of not very much. The story just somehow didn't gel, and there was just not much chemistry among the actors, or between the actors and their beautifully reconstructed postwar black-and-white berlin. Soderbergh was trying his hardest to evoke The Third Man but he succeeded only in reminding me of it and making me really want to watch it again (ditto with the Casablanca-suggestive ending). The successive revelations of war crime horror were supposed to be shocking and distressing, I suppose, but somehow they weren't; I'm not sure if it's because we've seen it too many times by now, or just because I didn't feel enough invested in any of the characters to be surprised or distressed when they turn out to have Done Horrible Things During The War. Tobey Maguire, by the way, was horrible. He apparently can't act and while I see what Soderbergh was trying to do with the sort of boyishly-innocent-slash-obliviously-sadistic american, it was just jarring. Clooney and Blanchett are a pleasure anyway though, and the movie really does look really, really good.