The Whole Truth (2016)
The film follows a defense attorney (Keanu Reeves) as he fights tooth and nail to get a teenage boy acquitted of murdering his own father. He enlists the help of a young lawyer who is determined to find out the truth about what happened that day.
10 April 1996, Walker, Louisiana, USA
11 August 1971, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 April 1983, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
November 23, 2016
When the whole truth arrives in the final act, viewers will find it hard to care.
October 21, 2016
Some interesting work (particularly from Renee Zellweger and James Belushi) is marred by some lazy narrative devices, specifically the constant voice-over narration.
October 21, 2016
The script for The Whole Truth is an "airport book," although it contains even less sizzle and grit than most of those.
October 21, 2016
Tense courtroom drama has violence, sex, language.
October 20, 2016
Instead of building tension, "The Whole Truth" lets it bleed out.
October 21, 2016
If you want the whole truth, Courtney Hunt's new film is not so bad.
October 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.
October 20, 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.
October 22, 2016
There is some good acting here but I think the script done them wrong.
January 01, 2017
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.
October 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.
