The way to appreciate the film is to sit back and enjoy it as a revolving carousel replete with character, situation and deception.
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11/18/05
Where The Truth Lies (2005)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:40
Rotten:58
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: The belabored noir plotting feels unbelievable, thus removing any sense of suspense. Also, Lohman is badly miscast.
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Reviews for Where The Truth Lies
It's less a whodunnit than a whocares.
11/03/05
Top CriticHas a soft-porn hue that sculpts its narrative into a sordid rainbow of slimy emotion.
10/21/05
A sodden, humorless mess full of lifeless performances (except for Lohman, whose work is just bad), purposeless convolutions, and lethargic pacing.
12/06/05
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10/15/05
An awkward marriage of smut and smarts that teases on every level but doesn't quite satisfy.
12/06/05
The trouble with Where the Truth Lies is that it's lousy art. Egoyan rubs our noses in behavior that he seems to think his movie is too good for.
10/28/05
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10/29/05
The truth is, it's terrible.
11/15/05
Despite terrific performances by Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as an R-rated Martin & Lewis, this showbiz murder mystery can't rise above an awkwardly executed, unconvincing premise.
05/18/05
A piece of lurid, salacious and utterly enjoyable trash, a kissing cousin to the collected works of Kitty Kelley.
11/18/05
Salacious rendering of what may or may not have been the story behind Dean and Jerry's break-up.
10/28/05
Another director might handle the showbiz and the murder and intrigue with dispatch, but Egoyan thinks about the emotional cost to the characters, as he also did in Felicia's Journey.
10/27/05
Top CriticThe whole thing is supposed to be funny (the book, at any rate, was funny), but instead it just feels sordid.
10/27/05
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04/29/09
More truth than anyone's comfortable with.
10/16/05
A delightfully seedy mystery who's joy lies only in the journey.
12/06/05
A metaphysical whodunit
09/01/09
It’s standard mystery potboiler, separated only because it over-pronounces the genre’s issues of reality and identity.
10/11/05
Egoyan employs a keen sense of mise en scene to capture an atmosphere of '50s and '60s showbiz excess that percolates beneath the story of flawed people making tragic mistakes.
04/19/09
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