Sleeping Dogs Lie 2006

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The uncomfortable message sent by Bobcat Goldthwait's lean, subversive comedy Sleeping Dogs Lie is how easy it is to gross out people who think they're so swinging and cool. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Rather than the escalating gross-out spectacular it could have been, Sleeping Dogs Lie is an unexpectedly thoughtful look at what it takes to make relationships work. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A scrappily funny and observant takeoff on the secrets that complete even the ''normal'' among us. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Amy's sin never for a second rings true, and eventually grows tiresome. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Goldthwait -- his motives always suspect -- has made a very watchable movie out of a very strange subject. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Sleeping Dogs Lie is worse than offensive, it's boring, and these busy days that's really unforgivable. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: [Director] Goldthwait explores his themes more thoughtfully than you'd expect, but ultimately, we know just how things will end. And what's subversive about that? Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Plays into an almost primal fear that there's something so awful in your past that if you spill the beans the other person will split -- no matter how much he or she professes that nothing you could say would ever have that effect. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Improbably, the movie manages to regroup after its outrageous opening and turn into an unpredictable, almost sweet, romantic comedy about the limits of candour. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's not like Amy was a serial canine abuser, for crying out loud. Had she been, the movie would be much more disgusting but also a lot more interesting and potentially more funny. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: A warm, mature, thought-provoking film that is, at times, surreal, often hilarious and ultimately very touching. Nice one, Bobcat. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: [The film] far exceeds the limits of how far a one-joke comedy can be extended. Read more

Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: [Goldthwait] handles it beautifully, crafting from such rough stuff something astoundingly sweet and sharply funny about forgiveness, unconditional love, tenderness, and the things we hide just to get ourselves from one day to the next. Read more