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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettAtom Egoyan has delivered a big, slick and sexy mystery in Where the Truth Lies, turning the Rupert Holmes novel into a sumptuous tale of show business hype and duplicity.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA mood of lush romantic decadence -- sleaze made enigmatic -- hovers over Where the Truth Lies, which has a score that works so hard to evoke "Vertigo" that it may leave you dizzy.
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyWhen conventional answers arrive, Where the Truth Lies seems as cheesy as its title -- but its disorienting layers of narrative make the double-entendre almost profound.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyAtom Egoyan's most mainstream and genre-oriented picture in his 20-year career applies a thick noir lacquer to a jumbled, time-jumping tale of a young female journalist prying the facts out of the aging entertainers and their cronies.
- 50The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsEgoyan's sensibility doesn't quite fit the material. His trademark stone-faced austerity never bends to capture the black comedy in the dissonance between his characters' public and private lives. It almost demands a trashier approach.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's compelling in the way many B-movies are - cheap, sleazy, and lacking the depth we have come to associate with this director.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardEgoyan's uncharacteristic bid for the mainstream flames out on many levels, but it's hard not to stare with fascination at the dying embers.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisIn the end, it is Mr. Egoyan's fealty to the novel, its feints and dodges, that proves the film's undoing.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)Ken TuckerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Ken TuckerThe time shifts are awkward, and Egoyan displays little of the deftness of characterization he evinced in such movies as "Exotica" (1994) and "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997); the result is a cold scold of a movie.
- 40Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThis showbiz Rashomon has continuity, as well as credibility, problems.