The Secrets (2008)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:10
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.8/10
Reviews for The Secrets
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 2.5/4 |
Director Nesher has a way of reducing each confrontation to its two-dimensional essence, and he’s not helped by a swampy, sentimental musical score. Full Review |
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Restrained direction and the cast's strong, disciplined performances keep it from falling into soap-opera territory. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The Secrets twines coming-out, coming-of-age and coming-to-terms-with-Orthodoxy in a way that diminishes all three -- and dilutes its message with clichés. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
There is pain and empowerment in The Secrets as difficult choices are made. There are also gaps, but emotionally moving performances by Ardant, Bukstein and Shtamler in particular, keep you with this small but provocative film until the end. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
In some ways, it is a traditional narrative. But it is more. It is gently and powerfully acted. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The Secrets belongs in a mini-tradition of involving films that limn the border where spiritual and sexual awakenings collide and entwine. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Each of the three primary directions of the movie might make a fascinating film, but tied together, they never cohere, and you find yourself sitting through two long hours wondering why you are doing so. Full Review |
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Even with rote characterizations and an overheated lesbian subplot, this religion-steeped Israeli tale is entertaining, eye-opening, even cautiously sexy. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
For a film with an aim as ambitious and illusive as the depiction of the spiritual, The Secrets has a surprisingly light touch. Full Review |
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Although overlong by about 20 minutes, The Secrets mostly handles its subject matter with grace and charm; its heroine's proud defiance even mitigates a questionably celebratory conclusion. Full Review |
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The passionate performances of Ms. Bukstein, Ms. Shtamler and Ms. Ardant lend The Secrets enough emotional solidity to prevent it from entirely dissolving in the suds. Full Review |
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One of the most remarkable movies of the year. Full Review |
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The Kabbalah meets the Kinsey Reports, in this Madonna style mystical erotic brew. And a somewhat biased male take on thwarted female desires, along with simmering same sex homoerotic religious expressive tendencies. Full Review |
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Excessively overwrought and drawn out. Full Review |
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May 03, 2009:
The Kabbalah meets the Kinsey Reports, in this Madonna style mystical erotic brew. And a somewhat biased male take on thwarted female desires, along with simmering same sex homoerotic religious expressive tendencies. 
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November 27, 2008:
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November 03, 2008:
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