Awful finds new meaning in this monumental misfire from Atom Egoyan.
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10/22/05
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
Top CriticThe film, a pseudo noir, is compulsively watchable even as laughably over-the-top moments start piling up.
10/21/05
Top CriticHas a soft-porn hue that sculpts its narrative into a sordid rainbow of slimy emotion.
10/21/05
A nicely crafted piece of work, an odd departure for Egoyan, but another step forward in the long journey toward truly showing sex in cinema.
10/20/05
A stylized, sin-filled film noir, the film is also a meta-narrative about show business, in which no character bothers with the pretense of seeming to be one thing.
10/18/05
I certainly admire its creativity and its visuals and the performances especially from Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon.
10/17/05
Top CriticMore truth than anyone's comfortable with.
10/16/05
...misguided and semi-sensationalistic...Truth plays more like a tension-filled tease than it does a scathing commentary on the rigors of fame and its unpredictable frivolity
10/16/05
Egoyan has made his Showgirls.
10/15/05
Slick, sordid, scandalous showbiz tale of deception and depravity.
10/15/05
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10/15/05
Buried pasts and repressed histories have long been favorite Egoyan themes, but who would have expected this intellectual to get so stymied by stardom and desire?
10/15/05
This isn't a typical Egoyan flick, as the sex and drugs element is new and so is humor.
10/15/05
Nailing comedian Lanny Morris’ sleazy come-ons and barely veiled air of pained regret, Bacon has rarely been better.
10/14/05
As unconvincing as it is unsavory.
10/14/05
Sex, drugs, intrigue, murder, extortion, betrayal -- it's all in there, every which way.
10/14/05
Top CriticEgoyan's uncharacteristic bid for the mainstream flames out on many levels, but it's hard not to stare with fascination at the dying embers.
10/14/05
Top CriticNot only is Where the Truth Lies not particularly erotic, it's not even particularly good.
10/14/05
Top CriticEgoyan's screenplay, based on a convoluted novel by Rupert Holmes, never achieves any kind of dramatic credibility.
10/14/05
Top CriticEven flawed Egoyan offers its own fascinations.
10/14/05
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