The Lie

Name: The Lie
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: October 6, 2020
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Alan Van Sprang, Cas Anvar, Dani Kind, Devery Jacobs, Joey King

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Blumhouse Productions | Release Date (Streaming): October 6, 2020 | R

Starring: Alan Van Sprang, Cas Anvar, Dani Kind, Devery Jacobs, Joey King, Mireille Enos, Nicholas Lea, Patti Kim, Peter Sarsgaard, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll

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Part of Prime Video's Welcome to the Blumhouse horror film series.

Summary: When their teenaged daughter confesses to impulsively killing her best friend, two desperate parents attempt to cover up the horrific crime, leading them into a complicated web of lies and deception.

Director: Veena Sud

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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The Guardian Phil Hoad

Oct 6, 2020

Sud – with plenty of inexorable tracking shots through the family’s chilly condo – efficiently tightens the screw as the twitchy mother and indulgent father first bicker, then are doomed together by their blood allegiances. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Oct 6, 2020

Playing off intense, uncomfortably tight close-ups where the actors show off finely tuned displays of flickering emotions with long shots that emphasize the plush interiors and tidy suburban gardens that surround them, Sud ratchets up the tension expertly. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Oct 7, 2020

The Lie is far from a total success, but it has enough tension and talent to make you hope that Blumhouse keeps aiming a quiet thriller or two at adults. Read full review

Slashfilm Chris Evangelista

Oct 6, 2020

The Lie probably could’ve worked in a shorter form – a half-hour episode of a TV show, perhaps. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Oct 8, 2020

Audiences familiar with this kind of story — and the inevitable complications that ensue once characters try to hide a brutal crime — will be ahead of the overheated storytelling. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Oct 7, 2020

Even at the attractive price of “free,” it’s not worth it because watching it requires 97 minutes and that’s not time well spent. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Oct 6, 2020

This is a whiffed effort at an all too familiar subgenre: the ostensibly dark, searing human drama undercut by the fact that all the humans in it are boorish idiots. Read full review

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JLau

Oct 9, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Stupid parents make stupid decisions as their daughter has obviously faked murdering her friend but in trying to cover it up, kill the girl's father.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Oct 18, 2020

What I said is reality.
These are throwaway films that Blumhouse produced and is avoiding losses with the Amazon distribution contract.

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meinsouza

Mar 1, 2021

what a stupid horribly written movie, who approved this garbage?nothing else to say

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aktasakinarda

Jun 1, 2021

This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. The story, the acting, sucks. And the worst thing about this movie is plot twist. Don't watch. This is a big waste of time.

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