The Canyons
IFC Films | Release Date: August 2, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
14
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJul 31, 2013
Schrader tries to find the human side of it all, and he scores with Lohan, who taps a vulnerability beneath her dissolution to remind you why she's still a movie star. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 30, 2013
You’d have to go back to the ’80s to find a film with this jaded a view of Hollywood, a town where every aspiring actor knows every yoga instructor who knows every producer and they all swap partners and dance. Constantly. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 3, 2013
As a visual symphony, The Canyons is often masterful, and while it may be pornographic in places, it’s never campy. At the center of its cold, beautiful and half-dead world is the almost incandescent Lindsay Lohan, burning like a flawed diamond. Read full review
70
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJul 30, 2013
People who don't understand movies often speak of them as escapism, a kind of passive fantasy. Lohan's performance in The Canyons, so naked in all ways, is the ultimate retort to that kind of idiocy: To watch it is to live in the moment. Read full review
70
VarietyScott FoundasJul 30, 2013
The major exception is Lohan, who gives one of those performances, like Marlon Brando’s in “Last Tango in Paris,” that comes across as some uncanny conflagration of drama and autobiography. Lohan may not go as deep or as far as Brando, but with her puffy skin, gaudy hoop earrings and thick eye makeup, there’s a little-girl-lost quality to the onetime Disney teen princess that’s very affecting. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereAug 1, 2013
The Canyons is actually anything but gratuitously sensational. On the contrary, it’s rather restrained, even conservative affair, far more interested in expositional conversation and a sustained tone of bleached-out melancholy than cranking up the heat. Read full review
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