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83As it unwinds, What Lies becomes both masterful and preposterous.
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75A classy supernatural lady-in-distress thriller.
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75A few scenes indulge in overstated hokum or thriller clichés, but Pfeiffer is first-rate and several sequences are suspenseful enough to deserve that overused adjective, Hitchcockian.
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75An uncommonly playful fright machine -- a fun house factory of scares.
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75If you're able to check your brain at the popcorn stand, you'll stand a much better chance of enjoying this crowd pleaser.
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75Goes Hitchcock one better by imagining what it would be like if the master had the advantage of digital technology.
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75Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time.
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75It's some scary fun to watch.
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70You feel you've been both a little creeped out and vigorously entertained. Its showmanship comes through in the clutch.
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70There's a great, Hitchcockian suspense sequence in a bathtub.
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70A thriller that tries aggressively, but not entirely successfully, to deliver the goods of three genres -- suspense, supernatural and horror.
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Assume that viewers are too hungry for mindless thrills to care whether dead characters spring back to life or live ones change their personalities according to the needs of the moment.
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67It's a kinder, gentler "Tales From the Crypt" that, in the end, is neither kind nor gentle.
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63Regardless of how cheated out of a full-bodied motion picture you feel, you're still left with the year's sickest bathroom humor.
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63Until the last 15 minutes, What Lies Beneath is a well-paced maze that earns every gasp from its audience.
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60An unexpectedly adult emotional rollercoaster with some very cold and unsettling things to say about men, women, marriage, and the lies we so often tell each other.
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50Startlingly shallow even for a summer movie.
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50Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary.
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50There is one good, legitimate scare in Robert Zemeckis' quasi-ghost thriller What Lies Beneath, and that's just not enough for a movie that lasts more than two hours.
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50Dumb, dumb, dumb - borrowing scare tactics from Hitchcock and other suspense masters, but forgetting basic story.telling essentials such as character development and logical exposition.
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50Never reaches much beyond the surface, and what lies there is all too predictable.
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50Ford and Pfeiffer deliver craftsmanlike work, but the film steadily unravels as Zemeckis tries to ratchet up the suspense.
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50A picture sufficiently shallow that you'll discover everything that lies beneath it well before the end.
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50This slow, derivative chiller (which lifts liberally from "Ghost Story," "Rear Window" and "A Stir of Echoes") wastes far too much time on red herrings and telegraphs its plot points with painfully obvious dialogue.
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50The scares are Hichcock hand-me-downs.
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50Suggest a Clintons-at-home scenario for 2001 -- haunted by the ghosts of dalliances past.
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50A slick but surprisingly empty genre movie that builds to a not particularly shocking shock.
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42Truly, this is a bad script.
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40This impeccable ghost story is utterly old-fashioned, a straightforward suspenser with no twists.
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40Glazes over faster than a Krispy Kreme doughnut, and neither is very flavorful after sitting around for a while.
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40Sparse and implausible screenplay.
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30At once illogical and insultingly stupid, filled with dead-end twists and the sort of dialogue that makes a mockery of actual adult relations.
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30Loses touch with its characters.
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20What Lies Beneath is my head on the movie theater floor, snoozing through this film.
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20Feels more planned than passionate, scary at points but unconvincing overall.
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