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'Full Circle' review: Soderbergh's style distracts in this new crime drama

CCH Pounder stars in the miniseries“ Full Circle” on Max.

Busy bee director and producer of content for screens big and little Steven Soderbergh collaborates for a third time with writer Ed Solomon — following their 2021 period noir drama "No Sudden Move" and the 2018 experimental murder mystery "Mosaic" — for "Full Circle," a six-part social cum family cum crime drama that premiered Thursday on Max. It is fueled by coincidences, hidden connections that look like coincidences and the random acts of panicky people.

CCH Pounder plays Savitri Mahabir, a Guyanese racketeer in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York, whose insurance office makes money

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