The characters' disconnection from each other also tends to disconnect them from the viewer, making the film's transatlantic crossing aboard the Queen Mary 2 a long and languorous affair.

A clever and absorbing film that feels, alas, a little unfinished and a touch too improvisational.

"Let Them All Talk" offers enough surprises of tone, pleasures of mood, and piquantly composed images to carry the film through with a sort of visual music, compensating for the dramatic thinness without overcoming it.

Despite its halting modesty, though, or perhaps because of it, it’s one of Soderbergh’s more distinctive achievements of imperfection.