Lemming Critic Reviews

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 the full review

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 the full review

Spooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better.Read the full review

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 the full review

Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight.Read the full review

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 the full review