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Metascore®65 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

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

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal, with the squirmiest attack-of-nature tableau since Willard. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | Michael Atkinson

    Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Lisa Nesselson

    Spooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    The acting is serviceable and primarily of the stare-until-you're-uncomfortable variety, although Rampling is much more than that: She's a classic screen temptress with the aura of a melancholy spider. Read full review

  • 67
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    The film is much more intriguing in its dread-inducing opening half, when Moll's assured direction keeps suggesting that something horrible will be happening soon, then, when it does, that something even more horrifying may follow. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    Begins like a house afire and then fizzles out into a quasi-supernatural dead end. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The second half of the movie squanders suspense and momentum, solving its riddles by deflating them. Read full review

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