Where the Truth Lies: Critic Reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Sexy, tantalizing, and befuddling.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

50

In telling the story of a fictional comedy team, the director Atom Egoyan seems to want to deconstruct celebrity through the familiar mechanics of a murder mystery.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Atom Egoyan's stilted film squanders an intriguing premise.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

This is a silly, ponderous piece of work, and you won't believe one word of it.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

In this relatively big-budget production, the director's main anxiety seems to be wrapping up the mystery and selling the project.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

Egoyan's uncharacteristic bid for the mainstream flames out on many levels, but it's hard not to stare with fascination at the dying embers.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

50

More about vulgar shock value and vivid period re-creations than it is an absorbing or convincing crime story.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

59

Where the Truth Lies is heavy-handed, bombastic, blatant, overwrought, confusing and florid. But bless its shameless heart, it's also watchable.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

25

Every face on screen seems wrong for the part chosen.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ken Tucker New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jessica Reaves Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

63

The whole thing is supposed to be funny (the book, at any rate, was funny), but instead it just feels sordid.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

Where 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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

A mesmerizing show-business Rashomon.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

42

Egoyan simply offers too much in terms of twists and trysts.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

The solution to the 'mystery' ... becomes anticlimactic.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

Egoyan's screenplay, based on a convoluted novel by Rupert Holmes, never achieves any kind of dramatic credibility.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

It's the stuff of grand intrigue, and Egoyan relishes it.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

Egoyan includes a grieving mother, a painful back story and a couple of gestures of healing and recognition, but they feel like add-ons to the pulp plot.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The difference between a good potboiler and a bad one comes down to tone, and Egoyan chooses the wrong approach.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ray Bennett Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A sumptuous tale of show business hype and duplicity.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

25

Awful finds new meaning in this monumental misfire from Atom Egoyan.
Full Review » 7 years ago