from www.bostonherald.com- Meet Sasha Grey, star of Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience.” Does she look stoned to you, too?

A porn star and self-described performance artist, Grey tries her hand at legit acting in Soderbergh’s latest experiment in whatever-you-call-it when he isn’t making sequels to “Ocean’s Eleven” movies.

The auteur of “Sex, Lies and Videotape” (1989) and the man largely credited with creating the modern American independent film movement (and director of such notable films as “Out of Sight,” “The Limey,” “Erin Brockovich” and “Traffic”), now gives us “Sex, Lies and the Porn Star.”

Grey plays – and I use that word with tongue firmly planted in cheek – Chelsea, a Manhattan prostitute with a very exclusive clientele and a tough and thorough prescreening process.

Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (“Ocean’s Thirteen,” “Knockaround Guys”), the film features Grey in shaky-cam, faux-real-life scenes, making small talk (and when I say small, I mean miniscule) with Chris (Chris Santos of “Amongst Friends”), her personal trainer and live-in boyfriend, and hooking up with clients, one of whom, a married screenwriter (hmmmm), she falls for on the first “date.”

The film is a reality TV show with pretensions and yet another film about sex with little sex in it.

Grey wears designer clothing and shoes and an affectless expression throughout the film. Moreover, she speaks in a bored monotone. Was it just my imagination or can Grey be seen eating in restaurants in half her scenes? Perhaps this review should be written by a food critic.

Former “Premiere” film critic Glenn Kenny upstages the rest of the cast as a sleazy online reviewer of escort services who meets Grey and tries to get a freebie.

Poor Soderbergh, he’s still tring to epater la bourgeoisie.