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With Claire Foy and an iPhone, post-retirement Steven Soderbergh blazes another trail with 'Unsane'

It may not be intentional, but Steven Soderbergh can really make other people feel lazy.

In 2013, he announced his retirement from filmmaking and promptly began work on "The Knick" for Cinemax; he directed all 20 episodes of the show's critically acclaimed two-season run.

Last year he returned to features with the heist comedy "Logan Lucky." He also recently made "Mosaic," a murder mystery available as a series on HBO and also as a branching narrative via an app.

With retirement now firmly in the rearview mirror, his latest film, "Unsane," opens Friday following a world premiere last month at the Berlin International Film Festival and finds him changing things up yet again. Shot mostly with an iPhone for a budget of about $1.2 million - Soderbergh noted it's

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