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By Michelle McCue and Marc Butterfield

Director Steven Soderbergh has returned to the big screen with a riveting tale of a haunting in his latest movie, Presence.

Coming in at 85 minutes, this ghost story is unlike anything you’ll see all year. An unusual, unnerving, and heart-wrenching thriller, it stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday and Callina Liang.

Filmed from the supernatural being’s Pov, the presence is there before the family even moves into their new home. It witnesses this dysfunctional family’s most intimate uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed. It pays unusual attention to Chloe, who’s two friends have mysteriously died, and who’s neither her mother’s, Rebekah, nor her brother’s, Tyler, favorite. It’s only her father, Chris, who supports her and believes her story that...