Weekend Movie Forecast: The Informant! Vs. Jennifer's Body

Stephen Soderbergh's new movie The Informant! stars Matt Damon in the true story of Mark Whitacre, a biochemist and executive for Archer Daniels Midland who blew the whistle on his firm's global price-fixing scheme back in the '90s. Manohla Dargis at the Times calls it a "smart, cynical movie about how we buy now — oops, I mean, how we live now. Money makes the world go ’round in The Informant!, much as it does everywhere and much as it most certainly does in his previous movie, The Girlfriend Experience, about a young prostitute selling her waxed wares. This time, though, Mr. Soderbergh has trained his focus and expertly wielded digital camera on the other side of the buy-and-sell equation, on the men in suits who fly in corporate planes, nursing drinks while they chortle about the breasts of their female employees. These are masters of our universe, the big little men who control and distort world markets."