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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoRampling has a relatively small role in Lemming, but the 60-year-old star proves the high point of the suspenseful black comedy from France.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsBy 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.
- 70VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonSpooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonExhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorLike 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.
- 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.
- 67The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe 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.
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe 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.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttLemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight.
- 40The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensThe second half of the movie squanders suspense and momentum, solving its riddles by deflating them.