Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

besherat I return to my dear Atom Egoyan again , after a long time. I can't believe that he was able to make all those wonderful movies with a great themes, great actors and great soundtracks. This film is very good, keep your attention for 100%.

SnoopyStyle It's 1972 L.A. Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) is writing about entertainment duo Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth). She tries to get to the truth of what happened 15 years ago. Lanny and Vince were performing a 39 hour telethon in Miami and Karen had a central part as a child. The womanizing Lanny had a night with the hotel maid Maureen O'Flaherty (Rachel Blanchard) before the telethon. Afterwards, the boys go to a New Jersey hotel where Maureen is found dead in their room. The death was quickly covered up and ruled a suicide.Director Atom Egoyan brings a labyrinthian style to the material. It can be a bit clearer about certain parts. It works better with a second viewing. The main deficiency is Lohman. She is much too childlike as an actress. It works for her for certain roles and in this case, she is asked to play herself as a child. I would rather have Vera Farmiga and her sister Taissa can play the younger version. In the end, the child version isn't a big enough role to truly influence the selection for Karen. The Bacon Firth combo is an intriguing one. That's the level that Lohman has to hit but just misses. Egoyan could have helped with a clearer structure to the story. This is still worth a second look if only for the hidden tension between Bacon and Firth.

begob This was a great experience until the balloon popped in a lame ending.A murder mystery that jumps between periods at the drop of a hat as we follow a comedy duo's involvement in the discovery of a body in the bath of their hotel suite.It's very twisty, but entertaining too, so I was happy to keep the cogs whirring in my brain as I tried to figure it out. Sadly the cogs span too fast, and I was way down Mulholland Dr when the director forced me into a U-turn and back to an Agatha Christie style reveal.My problem was I thought I spotted some synchronicity between the victim's age, the time lapse on Firth's decision to write, the victim's would-be age at the time her mother spoke, and the year in which the victim's father and the reporter's father died. Reporter is the victim's sister, and she's in some delusional revenge nightmare! Has to be, especially with the Lynchian through-the-looking-glass moment of Alice on stage. And the title screams Unreliable Narrator. Yes?Nope. I had to ditch that and listen to Madame Poirot explain the plot in every, earnest detail.Most of it was great, some good laughs, but a big fat disappointment.

paul2001sw-1 Atom Egoyan's movie 'Where the Truth Lies' tells the story of an ambitious journalist investigating (in the 1970s) the break up of a once-successful entertainment double act, which had happened in the aftermath of a suspicious death fifteen years before. The two periods are immaculately portrayed; but the plot is contrived, the dialogue clunky, and the former stars so unpleasant that it doesn't make for a very nice movie. Even the character of the journalist is thin, and yet inconsistent: is she the angel of truth, or just as tough a cookie as everyone else she deals with? The film could have exploited this paradox, but instead, it feels more like evidence of an outline story that never acquired the necessary depth. Especially when compared with the same director's masterly 'The Sweet Hereafter', it's a disappointing effort.