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

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.

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

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