Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 7/23/15] | José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Una propuesta entre interesante y sedante que en conjunto queda demasiado cerca del telefilm de sobremesa. No está mal, pero no engancha desde el tono del debutante Rupert Goold, que con todo apunta maneras de cara al futuro.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: With his thorough competence and lack of individual style, Goold has all the making of a reliable journeyman. He almost certainly has a number of terrific films in his future, as long as he isn’t saddled with a screenplay as doltish as this one.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A riveting and rigorous examination of lying.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: True Story fascinates beyond the initial hook of the story…
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Jonah Hill and James Franco picked a true story more ‘meh’ than ‘A-ha’!
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: True Story provokes thought about primal human nature and the mysteries of why we try to give others the benefit of the doubt, based on face value. The smartest and less gullible viewer will be way ahead of where this is all going, but the suspense is in the “when” and “how” rather than the “what.”
- Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
- Excerpt: It’s perfectly watchable and instantly forgettable.
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: Where to begin in tabulating the missteps in this uninvolving, mechanically plotted adaptation?
- Dan Lybarger @ www.blooddirtandangels.com
- Excerpt: True Story earns its chills not by jolting the audience or by surprising them with developments that come from nowhere. Instead, British director Rupert Goold, making his feature debut, fills the movie with a constant sense of dread and unease.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Jones almost saves it.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A fact-based but slow-paced legal thriller notable more for its cast vthan its narrative momentum.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: Ripped from the headlines, it is not as good as “Capote,” but close enough.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Fortunately the excellent, scrupulous lead performances salvage True Story from its own ham-fistedness.
