Tell No One is good enough to warrant not only a long run in art houses, but considerable attention for a director who dared to tweak a hugely popular novel and made it work.
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08/08/08
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
Tell No One, French director Canet's excellent adaptation of Harlan Coben's bestselling novel, has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs.
08/01/08
These classy people are put to the trashiest ends, and, for the most part, it's a pleasure to see them rooting around in the garbage.
08/01/08
A French thriller that teases the intellect, shocks the senses and is sometimes simply too suspenseful for comfort.
08/01/08
Tell No One feels like a novel, rich with character and incident, unafraid to demand attention from its audience while unspooling a twisting, suspenseful story.
08/01/08
Tell No One is a classic modern-Hollywood thriller, a movie with a layered murder mystery, a frame-up, gangsters, conspiracies and one dazzling chase.
08/01/08
Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet...skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations.
08/01/08
Actually too clever by half, but also so skillfully played that it carries you breathlessly along for the duration.
07/28/08
if Hollywood has all but given up on making clever genre exercises for adults, let's be grateful that a few filmmakers from across the pond haven't
07/28/08
A man wakes from unconsciousness to find his wife dead and himself the center of suspicion as strange forces and deadly assassins close in from all sides. So many twists and turns it would hard to encapsulate spoilers for this one.
07/27/08
It feels like an American movie, dubbed in French ... Or perhaps, better put, it feels like a bunch of French people trying to act like Americans.
07/26/08
Slick, deliciously complex murder mystery.
07/26/08
I think it’s one of the best movies of the year.
07/21/08
A thriller with no missteps.
07/18/08
Tell No One maintains a rewarding balance of genuine emotion and high-tension entertainment. See it and tell everyone.
07/18/08
Tell No One darts its way past all the improbabilities and clichés that weigh down most mysteries, shooting toward a conclusion that's both endearingly old-fashioned and satisfying.
07/18/08
A story of upended love with a mystery that exerts its power till the very end.
07/18/08
Canny, refreshingly emotional and intuitive thriller.
07/18/08
The story becomes so convoluted and contrived (pursued by police, Alex just happens to run into a patient's father, who owes the doctor a big favor) that much of the tension dissipates.
07/16/08
"More twists than a barrel of pretzels"? Take that barrel and put it through the zigzag of a taffy-pulling machine and those results might be able to straighten out the labyrinth of circumstances in Tell No One.
07/14/08
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