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12/06/05
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
An awkward marriage of smut and smarts that teases on every level but doesn't quite satisfy.
12/06/05
Where the Truth Lies ... is an erotic period mystery awash in intrigue unfolding against a behind-the-scenes showbiz backdrop.
11/19/05
Egoyan simply offers too much in terms of twists and trysts.
11/18/05
A mystery-inside- a-mystery that mostly just drives around in search of a nonexistent address and hits dead ends.
11/18/05
Top CriticA piece of lurid, salacious and utterly enjoyable trash, a kissing cousin to the collected works of Kitty Kelley.
11/18/05
The way to appreciate the film is to sit back and enjoy it as a revolving carousel replete with character, situation and deception.
11/18/05
The truth is, it's terrible.
11/15/05
This may be Egoyan's glossiest film to date, but it is not as compelling as his earlier work
11/12/05
Take away the kinky sex -- the reason for no MPAA rating -- and there’s even less to be interested in.
11/11/05
A lurid, pretentious mess with almost nothing to recommend it beyond its ability to attract cheap publicity.
11/11/05
This oddball wallow is both tonic and toxic, packaged in Egoyan's dishy style, so capably served by Paul Sarossy's images and Philip Barker's sleek design.
11/04/05
Replete with the sort of wooden acting, sleazy atmosphere and unsexy eroticism one normally associates with late-night Cinemax movies.
11/04/05
Every face on screen seems wrong for the part chosen.
11/04/05
Swipes the structure of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd and tacks on a bunch of coincidences and an ending that isn't even worth stealing.
11/03/05
A mesmerizing show-business Rashomon.
11/03/05
Alas, the melodrama is utterly unsexy, sloppy and dull.
11/03/05
Bacon... and Firth... have such terrific chemistry together that you’ll go, 'You know, they should make a couple goofy retro Rat-Pack-y comedies together...'
11/03/05
It's less a whodunnit than a whocares.
11/03/05
Top CriticLush and jazzy, this beautifully crafted film tells its twisty noir story without flinching
11/03/05
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