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For what this film was, I loved it.
It was a mystery and a thriller, but very very subtle.
However it also contained action - in the great scene of a chase between the lead and the police.
And romance in small doses, most...
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For what this film was, I loved it.
It was a mystery and a thriller, but very very subtle.
However it also contained action - in the great scene of a chase between the lead and the police.
And romance in small doses, most naturally portrayed through the lead's sister and her wife, who just happened to be a happy lesbian couple with no additional reasons.
The clues were great - you had to have a really good memory and be watching really closely to understand what was happening at times. For instance when flowers got delivered to the house, I originally thought the deliveryman was a hitman. However I then remembered where we had seen the flowers before and realised it was a private clue.
The film kept me hooked from beginning to end, there wasn't a moment of boredom during the whole film.
The eventual explanation was also done very well - Margaret's father's confession and the story of the paedophile.
All in all the film left me feeling that justice may not have been fully done, but that things would now get better.

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Posted aug 7, 2007 5:25 pm pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Tell No One's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected. The issue of how is a riddle that does more than tease --gives you an itch you won't want to stop scratching.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  91
  The title Tell No One recalls the days when ads proclaimed, "No one will be seated after the first 15 minutes" and "Be considerate of your neighbors: Don't give away the ending of this picture." Both rules apply to this canny, refreshingly emotional and intuitive thriller.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  90
  Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet, best known here for his own acting work in "Joyeux Noel" and "Love Me If You Dare," skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  90
  Spicing up the entire package is a screenplay by Canet and Philippe Lefebvre that bristles with wit and energy.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  90
  It's Cluzet's intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience.

  by David Denby | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  90
  Crisply and competently filmed, Tell No One is an intriguing sample of new-school French cinema at the more commercial end of the spectrum.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  90
  Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost.

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
  90
  Thrillers aren't always so thrilling, but Tell No One is -- and absorbing, sometimes perplexing and often stirring as well.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  Author Coben, who says he is a fan of "stories that move you, that grab hold of your heart and do not let it go," has gotten a film that does exactly that.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  90
  Indeed, you could argue that Tell No One is a variant on one of Hitchcock's favorite themes: the running man whose story no one (except us in the audience) believes. These fictions, of course, depend for their success on the French respect for rationalism (and their horror when reason is torn asunder by criminal irrationality).

  by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  88
  The movie brims over with action -- check out Alex's run through traffic on the Paris beltway -- but Canet scores a triumph by plumbing the violence of the mind.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  88
  A terrific mystery, equal parts haunting love story and nimble thriller.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  Even when it's baffling, it's never boring. I've heard of airtight plots. This one is not merely airtight, but hermetically sealed.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  88
  The result is one of the twistiest thrillers in recent memory.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  In the fine tradition of well-made thrillers, it's enough that it all feels solid at the moment, and the final revelations are unexpected and seemingly inevitable.

  by Marc Mohan | Read Full Review »