The Christophers Puts an Unrepentant Art Monster Through His Paces

Art, it has been said, is never finished, only abandoned. Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Christophers, works around the edges of this idea. Its story of an elderly, dying painter who’s declined to complete his masterpiece unfolds as a sly, invigorating game of lost and found.The idea of a protean, veteran creator waiting out his own private exile is fascinating on its own terms; it deepens nicely in the context of Soderbergh’s intense—some might say pathological—relationship to his own proces...