[It] signals prophetic visions of breakdown — in empathetic corporeality, in cinema genre legacies, and in the capitalist American psyche.

| Oct 10, 2024

There are some compelling ideas here, they just get too often washed out in the muck of navel-gazing nothingness and a truly abominable performance from Deen.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Jun 24, 2024

Flat and imbecilic, The Canyons is a chore in every sense

| Jul 6, 2021

While Deen may very well grow into a genuine actor, he's not there yet.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

A movie decrying movies, funded and released online, shot and acted like reality 온라인카지노추천 - maybe its existence says more than its dialogue, but that doesn't make it any more engaging.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 11, 2019

Despite a liberal dose of full frontal nudity, The Canyons fails to fully revel in its sleaze, struggling to even work as a deadpan satire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

It would be too easy to blame the leads for the film's flatness, but I'm not sure that better actors could have roused such listless dialogue.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 11, 2018

On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life-art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, it's cheap and weak.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Two problems that plague too many films labelled as erotic thrillers cling to this work: It is neither erotic nor much of a thriller.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 8, 2017

The Canyons rapidly evolves into a film hopelessly at odds with itself.

| Original Score: C | Jun 29, 2016

Bret Easton Ellis's screenplay is filled with the worst kind of tin-eared dialogue and situations that seldom rise above their soapish base instincts, and in the third act, he clearly just gives up and turns one of his characters into Patrick Bateman.

| Jun 19, 2016

Very little animating emotion to explain why the film had to be made, why the story needed to be told.

| Original Score: D | Jul 14, 2015

With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The Canyons might have been a micro-budget sensation, but sadly it reeks of laziness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2014

Schrader's idea of a modern-day noir has promise but Ellis' script lets him down and leaves the actors adrift with no scenes to play.

| Jun 27, 2014

Merely confirms Schrader as an all-but spent force (it's been largely downhill since the dismal Dominion) and nails Bret Easton Ellis as a one-trick pony.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2014

Although the movie is flawed, [Lohan's] pretty terrific ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2014

The first question you'll ask yourself while walking out of The Canyons is, "What were they thinking?" The second may be "Were they thinking at all?"

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 9, 2014

Largely set to go down as an embarrassing footnote in the careers of both its screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader - unless, by some miracle, it gains cult success for its awfulness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2014

The group sex sessions are briefly interesting, not for their titillation value but the shifting powerplays that emerge between the main characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2014

Lindsay Lohan's car crash career receives another nasty bump in The Canyons, a turgid, very low-budget wallow in Beverly Hills sleaze.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 8, 2014