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By Di Golding (122) for Dear Cast and Crew (122) on 11 Dec 2018

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…

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By Jane Crowther (96) for Total Film (3,532) on 22 Aug 2018

On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life-art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, it's cheap and weak…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 07 Nov 2017

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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By Nick Newman (61) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 28 Jun 2016

The Canyons rapidly evolves into a film hopelessly at odds with itself…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 18 Jun 2016

Bret Easton Ellis's screenplay is filled with the worst kind of tin-eared dialogue and situations that seldom rise above their soapish base…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 22 Sep 2014

With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The…

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By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 26 Jun 2014

Schrader's idea of a modern-day noir has promise but Ellis' script lets him down and leaves the actors adrift with no scenes to play…

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By Adam Lowes (75) for CineVue (2,163) on 20 May 2014

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…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Radio Times (2,421) on 08 May 2014

Although the movie is flawed, [Lohan's] pretty terrific…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 08 May 2014

The first question you'll ask yourself while walking out of The Canyons is, What were they thinking? The second may be Were they thinking at all…

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By James Mottram (656) for The List (2,018) on 08 May 2014

Largely set to go down as an embarrassing footnote in the careers of both its screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader - unless,…

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By Ben Rawson-Jones (229) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 08 May 2014

The group sex sessions are briefly interesting, not for their titillation value but the shifting powerplays that emerge between the main characters…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 07 May 2014

Lindsay Lohan's car crash career receives another nasty bump in The Canyons, a turgid, very low-budget wallow in Beverly Hills sleaze…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 07 May 2014

Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as a fallen starlet in Paul Schrader's much-maligned noir quickie…

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By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 27 Mar 2014

Underneath The Canyons' plastic deadness rattles a broken Lohan... And we really believe her…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 19 Sep 2013

It might have felt at home alongside various overly lurid thrillers from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now, however, it feels only cheap and passe…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 15 Sep 2013

The bubbling-over sexuality of Paul Schrader's The Canyons is surely tongue-in-cheek, amusing in its semen-splashed excessiveness…

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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 14 Sep 2013

The Canyons is Easton Ellis cannibalising himself, Schrader badly forging Drive and hack stunt casting of a walking appendage and a starlet…

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By Simon Foster (434) for sbs.com.au (697) on 09 Sep 2013

The weathered, wayward but undeniably talented Lohan, the poster child for Hollywood's indulgent lifestyle (frankly, it's sad that at 25 she…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 29 Aug 2013

The low-budget film is loaded with conversations about nothing in particular, along with a collection of sex scenes that are neither especially…

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