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Oppressively misanthropic and ineptly made, The Canyons serves as a sour footnote in Paul Schrader's career -- but it does feature some decent late-period work from Lindsay Lohan.
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With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The Canyons might have been a micro-budget sensation, but sadly it reeks of laziness. September 23, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The Canyons might have been a micro-budget sensation, but sadly it reeks of laziness.
Kate Muir
The Canyons deserves a look. May 8, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The Canyons deserves a look.
Peter Bradshaw
Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as a fallen starlet in Paul Schrader's much-maligned noir quickie. May 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as a fallen starlet in Paul Schrader's much-maligned noir quickie.
David Jenkins
It believes it's taking risks it actually has no interest in taking, that it's seeing profundity in the showbiz shallows. January 3, 2014 | Full Review…
It believes it's taking risks it actually has no interest in taking, that it's seeing profundity in the showbiz shallows.
Wesley Morris
A boring failure, for the most un-thrilling reasons imaginable: the characters don't ring true, the dialogue is heinous, and most of the cast can't act. August 31, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A boring failure, for the most un-thrilling reasons imaginable: the characters don't ring true, the dialogue is heinous, and most of the cast can't act.
Robbie Collin
Ellis throws in lots of references to social media in a desperate bid for cultural currency, while Schrader intersperses the drama with pretentious shots of boarded-up movie theaters to suggest this is all a metaphor for the death of cinema. August 15, 2013 | Full Review…
Ellis throws in lots of references to social media in a desperate bid for cultural currency, while Schrader intersperses the drama with pretentious shots of boarded-up movie theaters to suggest this is all a metaphor for the death of cinema.
Ben Sachs
While Deen may very well grow into a genuine actor, he's not there yet. September 4, 2020 | Rating: 2.0/4.0 | Full Review…
While Deen may very well grow into a genuine actor, he's not there yet.
Richard Propes
A movie decrying movies, funded and released online, shot and acted like reality TV - maybe its existence says more than its dialogue, but that doesn't make it any more engaging. June 11, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A movie decrying movies, funded and released online, shot and acted like reality TV - maybe its existence says more than its dialogue, but that doesn't make it any more engaging.
Stephen O'Nion
Despite a liberal dose of full frontal nudity, The Canyons fails to fully revel in its sleaze, struggling to even work as a deadpan satire. March 21, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Despite a liberal dose of full frontal nudity, The Canyons fails to fully revel in its sleaze, struggling to even work as a deadpan satire.
Adam Lowes
It would be too easy to blame the leads for the film's flatness, but I'm not sure that better actors could have roused such listless dialogue. December 11, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
It would be too easy to blame the leads for the film's flatness, but I'm not sure that better actors could have roused such listless dialogue.
Di Golding
On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life-art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, it's cheap and weak. August 23, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life-art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, it's cheap and weak.
Jane Crowther
Two problems that plague too many films labelled as erotic thrillers cling to this work: It is neither erotic nor much of a thriller. November 8, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Two problems that plague too many films labelled as erotic thrillers cling to this work: It is neither erotic nor much of a thriller.
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