Lemming
Strand Releasing | Release Date: May 19, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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91
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
If you're content to let dream logic take over, a lot can be gleaned from this odd, darkly funny meditation on life, death, love and revenge. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Brilliantly conceived and competently executed. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Rampling has a relatively small role in Lemming, but the 60-year-old star proves the high point of the suspenseful black comedy from France. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
By the end, you may not know whether you've seen a ghost story or a story of delusional obsession, but you'll have had a great time. Read full review
70
VarietyLisa 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
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Like Michael Haneke's "Caché," this effectively creepy little customer from Dominik Moll (With a Friend Like Harry) fires yet another shot across the bows of French bourgeois complacency, while throwing in a wink and a nudge about the perils of surveillance. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert 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 A.V. ClubKeith 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
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film's main attractions are the Charlottes, but the price of watching their eerie psychological pas de deux is to endure muddled metaphors and goofy gadgetry. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Begins like a house afire and then fizzles out into a quasi-supernatural dead end. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Holds enough interest throughout to keep you entertained -- unless you're afraid of mice. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The score is the most effective thing about the film. Sometimes it's a suspicious, mischie-vous distraction from the reality that not enough of this makes sense. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
The second half of the movie squanders suspense and momentum, solving its riddles by deflating them. Read full review
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