Screenwriter William Goldman once provided the birds' eye view of Hollywood's product quality when he quipped, “Every Oscar night you look back and realize that last year was the worst year in the history of Hollywood”.

On the ground level, Libertas reviews an individual film that demonstrates that never-ending downward spiral in action: "It’s never easy to start a review with a mouthful of crow, but I owe Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney an apology: It is possible to make a film worse than The Good German."