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The acting is serviceable and primarily of the stare-until-you're-uncomfortable variety, although Rampling is much more than that: She's a classic screen temptress with the aura of a melancholy spider.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The second half of the movie squanders suspense and momentum, solving its riddles by deflating them.
70
Like Michael Haneke's "Caché," this effectively creepy little customer from Dominik Moll (With a Friend Like Harry) fires yet another shot across the bows of French bourgeois complacency, while throwing in a wink and a nudge about the perils of surveillance.
75
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
By the end, you may not know whether you've seen a ghost story or a story of delusional obsession, but you'll have had a great time.
67
The film is much more intriguing in its dread-inducing opening half, when Moll's assured direction keeps suggesting that something horrible will be happening soon, then, when it does, that something even more horrifying may follow.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight.
70
Spooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better.
63
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film's main attractions are the Charlottes, but the price of watching their eerie psychological pas de deux is to endure muddled metaphors and goofy gadgetry.
70
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache.
75
Rampling has a relatively small role in Lemming, but the 60-year-old star proves the high point of the suspenseful black comedy from France.