This twisty thriller nicely avoids Hollywood formulae, keeping us gripped to the complicated story and characters
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07/02/08
Tell No One (2008)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:92
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: An intense, well-crafted thriller, Tell No One is equal parts heart-pounding and heart-wrenching.
Theatrical Release:15-06-2007
Synopsis: Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The... [More]
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marina Hands, Marie-Josee Croze
Director: Guillaume Canet
Reviews for Tell No One
An intricate, intelligent, and very watchable thriller.
06/16/07
Top CriticIn short, Tell No One is a thoroughly enjoyable thriller with a cracking plot, superb performances and exciting action sequences. How come Hollywood can't make thrillers this good anymore? Highly recommended.
06/15/07
An array of Gallic stars who fill small roles and know how to make the best of them.
06/15/07
Shot-through with emotional intensity, a muscular, brooding direction, and a plot that (just) stays on the right side of ludicrous.
06/15/07
Chopping back and forth in time, it’s dynamically shot but overreaches with a flurry of dramatic revelations.
06/15/07
The supporting cast of Nathalie Baye, Kristin Scott Thomas and Francois Berléand supply gloss to the picture, though its plotting becomes so convoluted that tension drains away
06/15/07
It’s exhausting but enthralling from start to finish. Once you’ve seen it I guarantee you’ll want to tell all your friends.
06/15/07
The supporting cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas and Nathalie Baye, are strong. It’s a watchable thriller
06/15/07
Top CriticBrilliant action set pieces.
06/15/07
Top CriticA gripping thriller, this deserves to cross over from the subtitled bracket into mainstream cinema.
06/15/07
Top CriticChristophe Offenstein’s fluid camera tracks the action well enough, but any pretence to subtlety or sophistication seems lost in translation.
06/14/07
Top CriticTell No One retains all the slick dynamism and tension of a classic Hollywood thriller without ever seeming anything but French.
06/12/07
Top CriticCanet has covered his bases with enough swooping camerawork, narrative smoke-and-mirrors, and quick-sketched supporting characters for a dozen thrillers
08/08/09
Tell No One has shades of Hitchcock's Vertigo -- and not to its detriment. [An] extremely gripping and fascinating suspense film.
07/30/09
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04/23/09
Initially complex, the piece's grip loosens with the introduction of a transparent villain, but it remains an entertaining thriller bolstered by Cluzet's appropriately angst-driven performance.
11/26/08
Easily one of the best films of the year.
11/17/08
By and large, Tell No One is more interested in telling a knotty story than pondering its meaning, but in those rare deeper moments, Canet evokes how a tragedy can gather around a man and linger there, like a cloud of gnats.
10/18/08
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