The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things Critic Reviews

The Heart Is Deceitful has a daring that's hard to dismiss, even when it only amounts to Argento shamelessly getting off on human rot.Read the full review

My two-star rating represents a compromise between admiration and horror.Read the full review

Asia Argento is not what I would call a good actress, but she's a prime specimen of train-wreck sexuality: a debauched Eurotrash starlet who oozes punk cred more than she does talent. It's not too hard to see why she wanted to write, direct, and star in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.Read the full review

Though it's decidedly for perverse palates, some kind of cult audience seems assured for this one-note onslaught, which exercises a bizarre fascination despite its excesses.Read the full review

The performances by all three children are scarily convincing. Still, it's a taxing bit of exploitation, which, although you're glad to know it's a work of fiction, doesn't exactly make a case for itself as art.Read the full review

Unwatchable.Read the full review

The tale grows only more toxic with time.Read the full review

The Heart Is Deceitful wants to cauterize us into feeling something -- anything -- but it's far too heartless to know what.Read the full review

Inspirationally impaired and dramatically retarded.Read the full review