White Lie - Movie Reviews (2024)

...a methodically-paced drama that benefits substantially from Rohl's stirring turn as the unexpectedly sympathetic protagonist...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2021

Creates a psychological push and pull between disgust and empathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

A timely film about the public's willingness to endorse and support a cause without investigation

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 23, 2021

The entire success of the film aside from the pacing is down to the astounding performance of Kacey Rohl.

Full Review | Jan 16, 2021

Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas' White Lie is a tense story with strong performances about a girl faking a cancer diagnosis.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 5, 2021

A movie that's too vague to capitalize on its jittery tone and too timid to fully wrestle with the monster at its core.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2021

Suffice it to say, this is not a terrible film and could have held strong to its core plot if it had a few more twists and turns. Instead, White Lie comes off as an underbaked drama with a paper-thin conclusion.

Full Review | Dec 25, 2020

If you've ever known a pathological liar, White Lie nails every detail of the lengths they will go to avoid getting caught and shines a light on a sickness few want to confront.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 21, 2020

Like the last 20 minutes of Goodfellas, only if Henry Hill had been faking cancer

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 16, 2020

I found myself rooting for her to complete her ruse, while also begging the powers that be to let her get caught. It's this dichotomous characterization that gives the film its lasting power.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2020

White Lie would be hard to watch if it weren't for Rohl ... she fully delivers on a challenging role with one of the most accomplished performances you'll see all year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2020

...a tense psychological thriller all the more effective because it ends ambiguously.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 23, 2020

The tension in White Lie comes from the threat of Katie's exposure, an anxiety accentuated by Lev Lewis' snaky musical score.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2020

The film runs 96 minutes, but set aside some time for post-screening conversation with whomever's in your bubble.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Although completely unintentional in its conception and execution, White Lie is the perfect movie for our lockdown era, where self-interest and self-sacrifice blur into a heady stew of paranoid toxicity that can tear apart lovers, friends and families.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

As a timely testament to our willingness to validate and support rather than investigate, White Lie is both insightful and terrifying.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 25, 2020

The clinical cinematography almost operates like The Terminator's viewfinder. It's chilling filmmaking, with suspenseful tones on the piano soundtrack and an unending nasty feeling to the whole affair.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2019

Mostly succeeds because it abstains from reducing its protagonist to a simple psychology.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2019

Continuity issues aside, White Lie proves this filmmaking team as one of the most exciting voices emerging in Canadian cinema.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2019

Crisply photographed and tautly conveyed, White Lie is another strong example of Canadian filmmaking at its very finest.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2019