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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:20
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: The film aims to shock, but there is no higher reason for the parade of sordid images except to be "cool."
Theatrical Release:Mar 10, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Based on the novel by the mysterious and controversial JT LeRoy, Asia Argento's THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS is a penetrating look at the emotional and physical bonds between mother and... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse
Director: Asia Argento
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Reviews for The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
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Marks [Asia Argento] as a far more adventurous and even risk-addicted filmmaker than her famous father Dario. Full Review |
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B+ |
[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things] has a deceptively desultory structure where no moral system or 'new daddy' seems to hold much water upon introduction, but each accumulates ideas which make an atavistic reappearance at the most inopportune of tim Full Review |
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The subject matter might be quite disturbing to some, but for those who don't mind a little child-rape with their crack-smoking, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is well worth a look. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
To appreciate or even tolerate the film, you must separate yourself from the characters and the material. What's unfortunate is that the movie is too well made to let you do just that. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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Reeks of a project desperate for edgy credibility. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Argento's film is arguably exploitative, but its real-life horrors are effectively authentic. Full Review |
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C- |
... shapeless, excessively lurid and often unpleasant, with Argento shamelessly vamping the white-trash junkie mother and truck-stop hooker. Full Review |
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7/10 |
JT LeRoy may be a scam, but Argento's scalding treatment of adults behaving badly is as real as cold French fries in a West Virginia truck stop. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Trying a bit too hard to be a modern cult classic, but it’s clear that Argento’s heart is in the right place. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Now the fabricated story of a boyhood that included abandonment, rape and near constant fear and humiliation is a movie. The result is unwatchable. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
I don't know if the movie follows the book closely, but if it does, you kind of have to wonder how Leroy or Albert or whoever it was made such a splash in the first place. Full Review |
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0.5/4 |
Vile beyond redemption. Full Review |
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[H]as a sucker-punch power more potent that what most movies specifically designed as 'horror' can muster... Full Review |
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3/4 |
[Argento's] fast-moving, devil-may-care filmmaking keeps The Heart Is Deceitful dangling just above its relentlessly harrowing subject matter. Full Review |
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B- |
The story conveys so much emotion that I found myself wanting to yell at the screen, "Leave that boy alone!" Full Review |
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C+ |
Argento has made a ferocious film including her own committed performance, but like her character, she loses control in the final goings. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It's a taxing bit of exploitation, which, although you're glad to know it's a work of fiction, doesn't exactly make a case for itself as art. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
At best, this film raises an all-too-relevant question: Are true-life stories interesting because they're true? Or because they're interesting? At worst, it raises a different question: What if they're neither true nor interesting? Full Review |
CommentLatest News for The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
March 03, 2006:
Is this an attack on Christian fundamentalists? 
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March 02, 2006:
Weinsteins Set To Make "Deceitful" Author J.T. LeRoy Biopic
There's almost a week to go before Asia Argento's "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" opens, so it's perfect timing for The Weinstein Company to announce they've... More...
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