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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 03 Nov 2005

Swipes the structure of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd and tacks on a bunch of coincidences and an ending that isn't even worth stealing…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 02 Nov 2005

The key strategic misstep should be obvious already: this is a movie that wants us to think about Jerry Lewis having sex…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2005

While superficially engaging, ends up in retrospect seeming a very thin, and surprisingly ramshackle, contrivance…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Oct 2005

This is a silly, ponderous piece of work, and you won't believe one word of it…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 27 Oct 2005

A fascinating ride through morally ambiguous territory to a place you've never been before…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Oregonian (1,550) on 27 Oct 2005

There are moments here so out of whack that you almost wonder if David Lynch isn't snickering somewhere at having fooled everyone into thinking…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 27 Oct 2005

It's filled to the brim with sex, lies, manipulation, blackmail, murder, and more sex…

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By Boo Allen (301) for Cedar Hill Sentinel (TX) (8) on 27 Oct 2005

Salacious rendering of what may or may not have been the story behind Dean and Jerry's break-up…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 26 Oct 2005

A strange mix of showbiz whodunit and soft-core eroticism, with a couple of fine actors - Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth - wandering around stunned…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Oct 2005

Kevin Bacon is on a roll right now after several good roles, and here he channels diabolical sleaze while mugging joylessly before the telethon…

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By Andrew Wright (312) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 26 Oct 2005

Despite a few glimpses of Egoyan's trademark backbiting, double-edged wit ... there's a general sense of punch lines missed and straight men misused…

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By Lewis Beale (134) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Oct 2005

Badly cast, insanely plotted, with a bombastic score that makes the work of Max Steiner sound like a Bach cantata, the film also suffers because…

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By Jeanne Aufmuth (581) for Aufmuth.com (26) on 20 Oct 2005

Has a soft-porn hue that sculpts its narrative into a sordid rainbow of slimy emotion…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 19 Oct 2005

A nicely crafted piece of work, an odd departure for Egoyan, but another step forward in the long journey toward truly showing sex in cinema…

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By Frank Houston (26) for Palm Beach Daily News (26) on 17 Oct 2005

A stylized, sin-filled film noir, the film is also a meta-narrative about show business, in which no character bothers with the pretense of…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 16 Oct 2005

I certainly admire its creativity and its visuals and the performances especially from Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon…

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By Frank Ochieng (928) for Movie Eye (513) on 15 Oct 2005

misguided and semi-sensationalistic...Truth plays more like a tension-filled tease than it does a scathing commentary on the rigors of fame…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 14 Oct 2005

Slick, sordid, scandalous showbiz tale of deception and depravity…

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By Eric Lurio (584) for Greenwich Village Gazette (481) on 14 Oct 2005

This isn't a typical Egoyan flick, as the sex and drugs element is new and so is humor…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Oct 2005

The real reason to see it is its style, which sets an otherwise fairly unremarkable whodunit in a seedy, lite-Lynchian wonderland that's enjoyable…

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