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Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD "...an engaging enough film, blessed with elements that would appeal to traditional art-house audiences... hustles and bustles like a TV drama in the HBO fashion." (Read the full review...) 1,060 words, 04/25/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "To say that writer-director Juan Jose Campanella's movie is all over the place would be unfair, and inaccurate. He shows a sure hand technically..." (Read the full review...) 505 words, 04/22/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "Listen closely and you can almost hear the reassuring chung-CHUNG that marks the influence of the many episodes of 'Law & Order' on the director's résumé." (Read the full review...) 279 words, 04/16/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: OUTSTANDING (cg) Michael Phillips: "See it." A.O. Scott: "See it." (Watch the full review...) 199 seconds, 04/17/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The highest praise is due Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil for letting the unspoken passion between these two characters play out in their eyes." (Read the full review...) 297 words, 04/16/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A well-told thriller with intelligent characters speaks powerfully in any language.... no surprise that this superb Argentine film won this year's Oscar for best foreign language film." (Read the full review...) 199 words, 04/23/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a rebuke to formula screenplays. We grow to know the characters, and the story pays due respect to their complexities and needs." (Read the full review...) 722 words, 04/22/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...an attractive, messy drama... comes with a hint of Grand Guignol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 04/16/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...macabre-yet-moving... nuanced and full of intelligence and emotion; just when you think you have a bead on it, it gently swerves into richer places." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 04/16/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a beautifully calibrated movie... a timepiece of precision and artistry. Like the murder at the heart of this tale, 'Secret' is bound to linger in the memory for years." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 04/16/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a nearly perfect love story/murder mystery that unfortunately falters at the end." (Read the full review...) 304 words, 04/16/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "A kind of comfortable gravity attends 'The Secret in Their Eyes,' which for all its concern with memory and redemption is also the oft-seen poor-boy/rich-girl story..." (Read the full review...) 285 words, 05/07/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a rebuke to formula screenplays. We grow to know the characters, and the story pays due respect to their complexities and needs." (Read the full review...) 722 words, 04/22/10 Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: POOR "...features ludicrous interrogation scenes, a drunken colleague who provides comic relief and redemptive tragedy, and a climactic flood of memories that plays like a trailer." (Read the full review...) 186 words, 04/13/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a movie of tactile investigations, where the phones have rotary dials and cords, notes are written by hand or on manual typewriters and detectives wear down a lot of shoe leather..." (Read the full review...) 540 words, 04/23/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It deserved the Oscar." (Read the full review...) 884 words, 04/23/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...sometimes the softest touch creates the deepest impact." (Read the full review...) 363 words, 04/22/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...features some bravura cinematic moments and memorable performances from an exceptionally attractive cast of players." (Read the full review...) 342 words, 04/16/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...with its grim crime scenes and testy interrogations, its legal strategizing, and third-act twist, has a certain 'Criminal Intent' intensity, a 'Special Victims Unit' specialness about it." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 04/30/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...ambitious... uses a long-forgotten crime as a springboard for ruminations on love and memory, on the nature of time and the value of life." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 05/14/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Romantic obsession at its two extremes is explored with sympathy and intelligence..." (Read the full review...) 424 words, 06/04/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This Argentine detective story is one hell of a great movie. Expertly written, played and directed, it's the best romantic mystery since 'L.A. Confidential.' " (Read the full review...) 539 words, 04/30/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...enormously entertaining. You certainly can't fault Campanella for ambition, laying out so many elements of a story with confidence, asking us to follow. Do so..." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 04/30/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Ricardo Darín is one of the best actors you probably haven't heard of. His eyes always seem to be gently interrogating the object of their gaze..." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 05/07/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: WEAK (cg) "The secret here is that the movie is rather tasteless. It has the high, slightly nauseating stink of perfume on garbage." (Read the full review...) 663 words, 04/16/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a first-class production, smartly constructed by Argentine director and co-writer Juan Jose Campanella." (Read the full review...) 381 words, 05/21/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Though the story occasionally seems a little too convenient to be true, it doesn't matter a whit, as the filmmaking is so skilled." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 05/07/10 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "The actors give full-bodied, warm, melancholic performances, and their easy chemistry grounds the film even when it flirts with the cliched and the downright bizarre." (Read the full review...) 198 words, 05/07/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a winner." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 05/21/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a feature-length lesson to American filmmakers offering little except kiss-kiss and bang-bang." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 05/13/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...mesmerizing... This is a flesh-and-blood movie, and both Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil bring earthy presence to the story." (Read the full review...) 308 words, 05/21/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "You can imagine Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese studying the five-minute sequence in the middle of the film frame-by-frame, trying to figure out exactly how Argentine writer-director Juan Jose Campanella pulled it off." (Read the full review...) 455 words, 04/23/10
Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice: POOR "...features ludicrous interrogation scenes, a drunken colleague who provides comic relief and redemptive tragedy, and a climactic flood of memories that plays like a trailer." (Read the full review...) 186 words, 04/13/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...a piece of crap... kitsch, cliché, and cornball contrivance.... the Academy appeal of director Juan José Campanella's bloated noir is no secret." (Read the full review...) 163 words, 04/15/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...exactly the type of film the Academy traditionally honors: intelligent but conventional, an actor's showcase with glossy production values, and a little too polite." (Read the full review...) 380 words, 04/15/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...sometimes the softest touch creates the deepest impact." (Read the full review...) 363 words, 04/22/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "Though the film fails to peer into the depths of some of its ideas, Ricardo Darin's superb interplay with Soledad Villamil and Guillermo Francella always proves to be a sight for sore eyes." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 05/19/10 Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper: VERY GOOD "...a genre not typically known for subtlety.... Hitchcockian tension, a breathtaking chase, and ambiguous victims and villains seamlessly navigate existential musings." (Read the full review...) 362 words, 04/15/10
Bob Mondello, NPR All Things Considered: VERY GOOD "...a noirish thriller that splits the difference between the two -- a taut murder mystery with a political conscience.... finds secrets everywhere..." (Listen to the full review...) 185 seconds, 04/16/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Elements intertwine. Feelings emerge, recede, resurface.... Exceptional movies are often about many things, and that's certainly the case with this one." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 04/16/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...an attractive, messy drama... comes with a hint of Grand Guignol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 04/16/10 David Denby, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "...a finely wrought, labyrinthine entertainment whose corners and passageways will be discussed by moviegoers for hours afterward..." (Read the full review...) 539 words, 04/12/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a beautifully calibrated movie... a timepiece of precision and artistry. Like the murder at the heart of this tale, 'Secret' is bound to linger in the memory for years." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 04/16/10
Jonathan Holland, Daily Variety: OUTSTANDING "A deeply rewarding throwback to the unself-conscious days when cinema still strove to be magical... simply mesmerizing.... director Juan Jose Campanella's finest film." (Read the full review...) 792 words, 10/04/09 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "Juan Jose Campanella ('Same Love, Same Rain,' 'Son of the Bride') is one of Argentina's most communicative storytellers, and this entry qualifies as a high point in his career." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 09/23/09 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a beautifully calibrated movie... a timepiece of precision and artistry. Like the murder at the heart of this tale, 'Secret' is bound to linger in the memory for years." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 04/16/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...splendidly acted by all around... it's effective on any number of levels, as a suspenseful crimer, as a morality tale, and also as a personal journey of a decent man..." (Read the full review...) 749 words, 04/06/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...an attractive, messy drama... comes with a hint of Grand Guignol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 04/16/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Elements intertwine. Feelings emerge, recede, resurface.... Exceptional movies are often about many things, and that's certainly the case with this one." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 04/16/10
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