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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Gripping, troubling and deftly acted. Read full review

  • 90
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    It's a powerful and provocative achievement from a first-time filmmaker of enormous promise. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Superior and original filmmaking. You won't be able to take your eyes off it. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    At its best, L.I.E. offers a rich, dark, bitter slice of contemporary life. But the film's arty embellishments undermine its bleak vision, making it, in the end, a little too easy to take. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    L.I.E. has embraced tragedy, folly, perversity and outrageous dark humor. Like "Happiness" and "American Beauty," it takes an unflinching look at the darker aspects of life in American suburbia. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    A disturbing and provocative study of adolescence and isolation. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    You know you're in the hands of a born filmmaker when he floods a scene with danger and excitement and, at the same time, tempers it with something more delicate -- a languor of the everyday. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The ending is a cheap shot. An inconclusive ending would have been better, and perhaps more honest. The movie and the ending have so little in common that it's as if the last scene is spliced in from a different film. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    In a role that challenges our very notion of morality, Cox comes across as both predatory and fatherly, sometimes at once, in an acting turn as astonishing as it is stomach-turning. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    A provocative, upsetting film. Read full review

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