The key strategic misstep should be obvious already: this is a movie that wants us to think about Jerry Lewis having sex.
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11/02/05
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
While it's not without its strengths, it's really just a dime-store mystery novel that has been dressed up with tawdry sex.
10/31/05
While superficially engaging, ends up in retrospect seeming a very thin, and surprisingly ramshackle, contrivance.
10/31/05
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10/29/05
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10/29/05
This is a silly, ponderous piece of work, and you won't believe one word of it.
10/28/05
The film's twisty structure -- mirroring that of the book -- eventually grows tiresome without a strong central character to anchor it.
10/28/05
A fascinating ride through morally ambiguous territory to a place you've never been before.
10/28/05
Lurid, melodramatic, uneven and strangely magnetic.
10/28/05
More about vulgar shock value and vivid period re-creations than it is an absorbing or convincing crime story.
10/28/05
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticIt's filled to the brim with sex, lies, manipulation, blackmail, murder, and more sex. But even with all this sordid material to work with, it barely rises above boring.
10/28/05
Salacious rendering of what may or may not have been the story behind Dean and Jerry's break-up.
10/28/05
Where the Truth Lies is heavy-handed, bombastic, blatant, overwrought, confusing and florid. But bless its shameless heart, it's also watchable.
10/27/05
Top CriticWhere the Truth Lies might have worked if Egoyan had cast someone more credible in the central role of the reporter, but Lohman isn't believable for a minute.
10/27/05
The whole thing is supposed to be funny (the book, at any rate, was funny), but instead it just feels sordid.
10/27/05
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 CriticDespite a few glimpses of Egoyan's trademark backbiting, double-edged wit ... there's a general sense of punch lines missed and straight men misused.
10/27/05
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10/22/05
Badly cast, insanely plotted, with a bombastic score that makes the work of Max Steiner sound like a Bach cantata, the film also suffers because it has absolutely no feel for the historical periods it's set in,
10/22/05
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