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Siddhant Adlakha Variety The movie’s engrossing visual and tonal language is all about seeding doubt, a promise on which Miike over-delivers, resulting in a tale that remains in morally gray territory long after it means to. Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rocco T. Thompson Slant Magazine Sham is primarily concerned with individual experience at odds with dominant narratives, and whether knowing one’s own reality can ever be solace enough if everyone else considers it fiction. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 11, 2025 Full Review James Hadfield Japan Times The problems arise when the film quietly ditches this he-said-she-said format and plants its sympathies squarely with the defendant, without making any effort to reconcile the differences between the two accounts. Rated: 2/5 Jun 29, 2025 Full Review Will Bjarnar Next Best Picture “Sham“ is precisely the kind of film a director more synonymous with pomp and circumstance might make preposterous and melodramatic, but in Miike’s hands, it’s the ideal mix of serious and silly. Rated: 7/10 Jun 19, 2025 Full Review John Fink The Film Stage Sham could be taken as either a straightforward drama that doesn’t take advantage of its “based on a true story” premise to explore a broader range of themes or an expertly crafted work of minimalism from a master who is playing a few new notes. Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Olga Artemyeva ScreenAnarchy As it is, it’s not even entirely clear what the film is aiming for in terms of its meaning, as it seems to lean into condemning society’s willingness to unreservedly believe the presumed victims, which, in reality, just isn’t true in most cases. Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Director
Takashi Miike
Producer
Kenichi Wasano, Keiichi Hashimoto, Misako Saka, Shigeji Maeda
Screenwriter
Hayashi Mori
Production Co
Toei
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 9m