The Canyons

  • 2014


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22 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Average Rating 2.0/5
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2.0
Advertisement The Canyons is, in other words, a movie that simply doesnt want to work in a conventional sense. Av Club
2.5
Advertisement The Canyons is, in other words, a movie that simply doesnt want to work in a conventional sense. Av Club
1.5
The Canyons, with its junky intent of making a serious expression out of dumb waste, certainly isnt the stunning bad art of its titular location that .. Den Of Geek
3.8
Its amusement (and limitation) is that it dares to take Ellis florid cynicism deadly seriously. EW
1.0
Deen and Lohan are both compelling shes a pretty good actress, no matter what she does with her time off screen, and hes surprisingly charismatic. Common Sense Media
1.8
Schrader creates a more hypnotically unsettling vision when focused on the movies erotic thriller aspects. Indie Wire
1.5
It doesnt take long for the jealous Christian to figure out whats going on under his blow dusted nose, and to plot his revenge. Variety
1.5
But the problems go beyond The Canyons just being a toothless satire, it doesnt work as a thriller either and this is where Ellis has a point. We Got This Covered
1.0
When he isnt indulging in pretentious shots of abandoned, ruined movie theaters, traffics in the kind of dirty old man cinema he used to be able to cr .. Time Out
1.0
Porn star James Deen is slightly better than expected as sleazeball rich kid Christian; Lindsay Lohan slightly worse than youd hope for as his partner .. The Guardian
0.6
What can we do thats contained thats still interesting Thats the brilliance of independent filmmaking.
1.5
A fitfully intriguing but ultimately aimless psychosexual thriller about pretty young things behaving badly in Hollywood. Screen Daily
0.5
A lame, one dimensional and ultimately dreary look at peripheral Hollywood types not worth anyones time either onscreen or in real life. The Hollywood Reporter
2.1
Actually, Paul Verhoevens cult classic isnt even a fair comparisonThe Canyons lacks the energy and, frankly, gratuitousness for so bad its good midnig .. Paste Magazine
4.0
An oddly fascinating creation that offers viewers some skilled filmmaking and a performance by Lindsay Lohan that is among the most galvanizing that I .. E Film Critic
2.0
Very little animating emotion to explain why the film had to be made, why the story needed to be told. E Film Critic
2.0
And yet in practice, The Canyons is a boring failure, for the most un thrilling reasons imaginable: the characters dont ring true, the dialogue is hei .. Telegraph
1.0
If the creation of self important tedium were a competitive sport, The Canyons would take home the gold.
2.0
The banal script, from American Psycho novelist Bret Easton Ellis, feels like a Schrader parody. One effort at Gigolo like neon lit perversion looks m .. Ny Daily News
4.5
A movie can be highly imperfect, stilted, or implausible in all sorts of ways and still be everything you go to the movies for. Village Voice
2.5
The inherent problem isnt that theyre vile and self absorbed but that theyre uninteresting. ReelViews
0.5
Insufferable and eternal, The Canyons has spent the greater part of its production life dodging bad press, only to deserve every single journalistic l .. Blu Ray
0.5
Ellis throws in lots of references to social media in a desperate bid for cultural currency, while Schrader intersperses the drama with pretentious sh .. Chicago Reader
2.8
Ryan, knowing whats up, retaliates with Cynthias help and Easton Ellis wraps with obvious irony.
2.0
With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The Canyons m .. The Times
1.3
If the subtext of this misbegotten parade of lame shock tactics is the death of cinema, then The Canyons certainly knows how to nail the coffin shut. Rolling Stone
4.0
...takes the shards of a tacky Hollywood soap opera and transforms it into a pointed, sometimes brutal comedy. Pop Matters
1.5
What Christian doesnt know at first, anyway is that Ryan and Tara used to be lovers. The Wrap
1.3
Perhaps thats the point, given the dissipated, post fun world of The Canyons. News Day
1.9
Theres no feeling, no energy, no sense of the internal lives behind these zombies. Its nihilism, personified. News Day
0.0
Ive seen high school hygiene films that are steamier than this snoozer, notwithstanding the underwhelming mainstream debut of popular porn star James .. New York Post
4.5
All performances register high, including Lohan and her husky voice, but Deen, even inhabiting a must hate character, truly impresses as an actor who .. Film Journal International ..
1.5
But if film is on its deathbed, The Canyons isnt going to do anything to resuscitate it. Az Central
1.0
Schrader just seems angry, as if hes using this film as a tinny megaphone for an announcement of his displeasure with a Hollywood thats left him behin .. Npr
0.5
This pitiful would be sleazy melodrama is so terrible it isnt even cheesy.
1.3
The Canyons, a howlingly bad soap opera meets soft core porn mash up, sticks a cinematic fork into Lindsay Lohan, signalling her screen career is well .. Toronto Star
4.5
I suppose when youve been vilified and tabloid moralized as much as she has, a little more doesnt matter. Salon
2.0
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 som .. Flim List
3.0
Weve seen The Canyons before, but that doesnt make its cri de coeur any less urgent. Eye For Film
1.0
Lindsay Lohans car crash career receives another nasty bump in The Canyons, a turgid, very low budget wallow in Beverly Hills sleaze. Express
2.5
The Canyons rapidly evolves into a film hopelessly at odds with itself. The Film Stage
1.5
While not about pornography, The Canyons cant help but possess that same lurid whiff of XXX material, from the crotchy, skeevy sweatiness, right down .. Blogs Indie Wire
4.5
Underneath The Canyons plastic deadness rattles a broken Lohan... And we really believe her. Blogs Indie Wire
1.5
You could put a lot of work into figuring out whats wrong here, but why bother Pretty much everythings wrong. Detroit News
3.8
On the down side, The Canyons doesnt develop any of the characters as fully as it could have. Aisle Seat
2.2
When youre talking about a collaboration between writer Bret Easton Ellis, director Paul Schrader, porn star James Deen and tabloid mainstay Lindsay L .. Oregon Live
2.0
Meanwhile, Deens (presumed) porn star persona doesnt translate to legit cinema, and its hard to feel either repulsed or disturbed by his characters so .. Cine Vue
1.0
The first question youll ask yourself while walking out of The Canyons is, What were they thinking The second may be Were they thinking at all Mirror
2.0
The Canyons is no style and no substance, an exercise in poor judgement and stunt casting gone horribly wrong. Digital Spy
2.0
Instead, The Canyons feels like a Gregg Araki movie thats been pumped full of sedatives and had all the esoteric mystery extracted to leave nothing bu .. Digital Spy
2.0
On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, its cheap and weak. Games Radar
1.3
Resembling the all time dullest episode of MTVs Undressed, The Canyons unfolds like Lifetime tried to make a Cinemax movie. Red Eye Chicago
2.5
The Canyons, which isnt nearly as seedy or decadent or provocative as it wants to be, is not going to be toppling any cinematic status quo anytime soo .. Dustin Put Man
3.5
While mixing the soapy plot with gritty realism, Schrader never completely submerges us in the hedonistic mayhem. Contact Music
4.1
Writing in Salon, Andrew OHehir called The Canyons post theatrical cinema, a movie made after the age of movies and I dont think hes wrong. Ar Kansas Online
3.4
At least it doesnt leave you feeling bored at a running time of just 1 hour and 16 minutes. Nyc Movie Guru
2.5
The Canyons doesnt play like the cure for a moribund industry, so much as a mildly effective, highly depressing administration of the last rites. ... .. The Dissolve
1.0
Lindsay Lohan is NOT the problem with The Canyons. Shes arguably the only interesting thing about this train wreck, a film so vapid and worthless that .. Hollywood Chicago
1.5
Two problems that plague too many films labelled as erotic thrillers cling to this work: It is neither erotic nor much of a thriller. Straits Times
1.0
A movie decrying movies, funded and released online, shot and acted like reality TV maybe its existence says more than its dialogue, but that doesnt m .. One Room With A View
4.5
But thats another movie entirely (John Schlesingers Day of the Locust, actually, or Robert Altmans The Player). Sbs
1.5
Its an open, raw, exposed nerve kind of performance; when she finally crumbles, late in the film, it doesnt feel like acting. Flavor Wire
2.0
Two good leads are not enough to make The Canyons feel like anything but a failed experiment in intentional low budget pretentiousness. Crave Online
2.0
Any attempt to forge a meaningful narrative is mostly drowned by the vapid nihilism of Ellis vision and believe me, this film belongs to Ellis, not Sc .. What Culture
3.1
Taken from Corneau and Natalie Carters wonderfully tricky thriller about a corporate boardroom schemer and her malleable assistant, this slant is as m .. Bitly
1.0
It might have felt at home alongside various overly lurid thrillers from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now, however, it feels only cheap and passe. No La
2.0
Weird and creepy is pretty much whats on offer in The Canyons, but not so much of either that it gets interesting. Jam! Movies
3.5
No one here risks enough to achieve disaster.Its worse than that. Grant Land
2.5
As it turns out, The Canyons isnt deliciously fun or totally awful, for that matter. Sf Chronicle
3.8
Deen, a younger, thinner Hugh Jackman, is a real find, a throwback to the vivid Ellis characters of the big screen especially Christian Bales American .. Wp Me
0.5
The Canyons is Easton Ellis cannibalising himself, Schrader badly forging Drive and hack stunt casting of a walking appendage and a starlet that shoul .. Graffiti With Punctuation
4.0
Lindsay Lohan lights up the screen as a fallen starlet in Paul Schraders much maligned noir quickie. Little White Lies
1.9
They live in a chintzy, empty and thoroughly clichd version of Los Angeles, and The Canyons is ultimately a chintzy, empty, thoroughly clichd work. MLive.com
1.0
In that film, we had an amazing true story, wonderful images and Mia Wasikowskas charming performance. Hey U Guys
2.0
The sum of these ingredients is, sadly, neither a camp fest nor a compelling drama. 7 Dvt
3.0
The bubbling over sexuality of The Canyons is surely tongue in cheek, amusing in its semen splashed excessiveness. Arts Fuse
1.3
An inept, misanthropic melodrama written by novelist Bret Easton Ellis and funded mostly through a Kickstarter campaign. Rss Feeds Usa Today
1.8
The movie ends up not making any sense, lurching from limp satire to sex romp to slasher flick like the stumblings of a man on a mild ether binge. Deads
1.3
Despite rumours of diva like demands and general flakiness on set, gets the job done, which is more than one can say for her co stars. National Post
2.2
After years of writing compelling novels, hes become, like Harmony Korine always was, his own most interesting character. Filmdrunk Uproxx
3.1
The movie itself isnt nearly as interesting as this frame, another Bret Easton Ellis tale of rich, soulless young people doing bad things to each othe .. Madison Movie
1.5
I understand that this film is not a porno, but with so many comically porn centric tropes you cant really fault me for being disappointed. Dear Cast and Crew
1.0
This dud is too busy pointing fingers at the people it thinks are ruining Hollywood to realize that the dream factory goes down one bad movie at a tim ..



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