This courtroom mystery is more of a procedural puzzle than a realistic legal drama - indeed, one can imagine Agatha Christie coming up with the basic plot. It isn't exactly a nailbiter, but the story's twists are enjoyably engaging.

| Sep 2, 2021

Director Courtney Hunt cleverly intercuts the courtroom drama with often contradictory flashbacks, although experienced legal eagles won't have much trouble in spotting the final twist in this Grisham-lite tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2021

I don't know if it was a budget thing or just inexperience which resulted in this film having the look and quality of a bad movie of the week.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 10, 2020

The only real anomalistic quality to Courtney Hunt's long awaited sophomore feature The Whole Truth is why she chose to undertake this derivatively formulated courtroom drama in the first place.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2019

In this current post-John Wick phase of his career, Keanu is giving off a little gravitas (and the odd sly aside at his own expense) that was never evident before.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2018

Courtney Hunt's film is minor in scale but remains entertaining and modestly engaging throughout, and though it lingers a bit too long on its big reveal it never overstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2018

We can tell the kind of movie The Whole Truth wants to be - Southern noir, full of cynicism and sorrow. Here, ambition outstrips achievement.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 19, 2018

The film's closing minutes offer some parting pieces of information that upend some previously laid assumptions, but it's a grafted-on coda rather than a well-choreographed gut punch.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2017

When the whole truth arrives in the final act, viewers will find it hard to care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2016

There is some good acting here but I think the script done them wrong.

| Original Score: C | Oct 22, 2016

Some interesting work (particularly from Renee Zellweger and James Belushi) is marred by some lazy narrative devices, specifically the constant voice-over narration.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 21, 2016

Keanu Reeves effectively anchors The Whole Truth, but a capable cast can only do so much to keep the lingering mystery afloat before logic weighs it down.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 21, 2016

Perry Mason could have easily spotted the holes in the testimony of this lackluster courtroom thriller.

| Oct 21, 2016

If you want the whole truth, Courtney Hunt's new film is not so bad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2016

Tense courtroom drama has violence, sex, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2016

The script for The Whole Truth is an "airport book," although it contains even less sizzle and grit than most of those.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2016

There's nothing monumental at play in The Whole Truth, but it's not entirely without merit, satisfying on the same level one would digest a grocery store paperback.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 21, 2016

Trundling along on the drone of Ramsay's pseudo-hardboiled voice-over, "The Whole Truth" plays like an especially claustrophobic courtroom procedural, drably photographed and generically framed.

| Oct 20, 2016

Instead of building tension, "The Whole Truth" lets it bleed out.

| Oct 20, 2016

The film's bleached colors and Reeves' trademark woodenness add to its emotional remoteness, though Basso, Zellweger and Belushi create a convincing family in crisis.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2016