Dominik Moll's masterfully cast psychological thriller Lemming crackles with tension; its story keeps going off to unexpected places as we watch breathlessly, unable to look away.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2006

This spooky, quasi-sci-fi, psychological thriller is unclear about what's real and what's not -- and not in any interesting way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 4, 2006

It's a tale of normality invaded by pathology. But here, the danger seems less plausible, the conflict more contrived.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2006

Even by the strictest standards of odd French psychological drama, the behavior here is particularly opaque.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2006

More disturbing than thrilling, Lemming, like Alice, overstays its welcome, but does get around to a finishing kick.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2006

The movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 7, 2006

The theme is hidden desire, but the trip feels like a stale museum tour of the usual psychodrama tropes -- voyeurism, ghosts, sexual fantasy, dream imagery, murder -- without the goose-bumps-on-your-brain payoff.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2006

The actors are more than equal to their eccentric roles, and the film is well worth seeing as a tantalizingly cerebral and unpredictable thriller.

Full Review | May 31, 2006

Dominik Moll imbues the first half of his thriller with inklings of strangeness that are at once sinister and quietly comical. But there is, in the end, less to this film than meets the eye.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2006

The narrative surrealism can be annoying, but it's never less than riveting, and the acting is superb.

Full Review | May 25, 2006

Moll is exquisitely attuned to the way sound rubs up against silence, dark against light, and his shading of psychology into the supernatural is deliciously mischievous.

Full Review | May 25, 2006

Perhaps a tad too long, Lemming is nevertheless nightmarish entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2006

Imagine a movie that combines the suspense of Hitchcock with the inscrutable sexuality of David Lynch's films and you're looking at French director Dominik Moll's Lemming.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2006

Lemming exhibits the same crafty manipulation of audience fears and sympathies as Harry, as well as a keen ability to weave ambiguity and dark emotional subtext into tense, one-on-one encounters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2006

Moll makes movies that look like they're inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, but feel like Luis Buuel working in high bourgeoisie-baiting mode.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 17, 2006

In the end, Moll's film may be too neat (and too lengthy), but the wallop of disquiet is delicious.

Full Review | May 17, 2006

Dominik Moll's latest gives lemmings and women a bad name.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 10, 2006

Between Rampling and the rodents (who show up en masse in one startling scene), there's enough quality to stop anyone from throwing themselves off a cliff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2006

A superb cast valiantly attempts to keep the contrivances of an initially intriguing plot within the bounds of credibility and are ultimately confounded by an excess of ambiguity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2006

In every frame of this accomplished film, hell lurks beneath the dry humor and smooth, antiseptic surfaces.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2005