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100Someone has finally done it -- made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama.
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75When all is said and done, Lies is just good, dirty fun.
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70Surprisingly intimate, full of sly humor and, believe it or not, an odd sort of tenderness.
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70At once distanced and heedless, Lies manages to be lighter and less pretentious than any description suggests. The movie's playful aspect can't be denied.
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68A witty, if overextended, take on pornography.
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67It's a film so filled with sex and violence that many critics have derided it as nothing short of hardcore porn.
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50An uninvolving film.
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50A work of honesty and artistic integrity that nonetheless will be difficult to watch for many viewers.
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40If Lies were better, the most obvious point of reference would be "In the Realm of the Senses," but the filmmaking isn't good enough to warrant such comparison, and the ideas are half-baked.
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40The sex we see in Lies does not feel in any way enticing; the protagonists are left seeming pathetic by the end of the film, and few viewers are likely to go scavenging for sticks after leaving the theater.
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40The daring but only partly successful Korean film Lies is built around voyeurism.
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38The truth about Lies is that it's a case of art-house porn being more porn than art.
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25This sexually explicit South Korean drama aims more to jolt than to illuminate, but it illustrates an aspect of Asian cinema that globally minded moviegoers should know about as films from that region take on more international prominence.
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20Has nothing much to say.
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0In slightly less than 1,000 years, the competition for worst film of the third millennium will be fierce. Yet the smart money may well be on the Korean art film Lies.
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