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Where the Truth Lies

Directed by Atom Egoyan

D+

Reviewed by Sean Burns

Opens Fri., Oct. 28

Loud, lurid and often unintentionally hilarious, Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies is a time-twisting sleazenoir that's been overintellectualized and depressingly drained of any pulp kicks. One of Canada's more ascetic filmmakers (and by the reserved standards of the Great White North, that's saying something), Egoyan tends to make brainy puzzle-box pictures that subvert tried-and-true genre tropes into academic signifiers.

I'm told he's an acquired taste, and I'm still waiting to see the light. Right now I can think of few moviegoing experiences more disappointing than Egoyan's Exotica, a film about a strip club where ...

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