This superbly acted and directed French thriller is eerie and suspenseful. But it's convoluted, complicated storytelling with an abrupt, anti-climactic resolution.
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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
never comes to grips with its standard-issue plot mechanics, delivering neither the icy thriller that its cool detachment edges towards, nor the pulse-quickening potboiler that its story would seem to demand.
07/01/08
Thrillers aren't always so thrilling, but Tell No One is -- and absorbing, sometimes perplexing and often stirring as well.
07/01/08
Even when Tell No One's story gets a bit too convoluted for its own good, the cinematography, the acting and especially the action will keep you glued to the screen.
07/01/08
This Hollywood-level suspense thriller never goes where you expect it to go, but often gets bogged down in over-exposition as the plot thickens... and thicken... and thickens...
07/01/08
overpacked...technically proficient and will be sure to delight mystery fans, but despite Cluzet's centering performance, the film moves too fast to engage with the lives at stake.
07/01/08
[T]he best movie I've seen this year.
07/01/08
You'll leave wondering why Hollywood can't seem to make a romantic thriller so simply satisfying.
07/01/08
Hitchcock's "Wrong Man" scenario gets an invigorating French update in Tell No One, a long-winded but gripping thriller based on American author Harlan Coben's bestseller.
06/30/08
We know the material is artificially -- even deviously -- constructed, and we enjoy being manipulated by people who know what they’re doing. But it’s Cluzet’s intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience.
06/30/08
This smash-hit French thriller starts slowly -- and builds into a sharp action flick, though an overload of plot twists threatens to bog things down midway through.
06/30/08
... a superb and entertaining thriller.
06/28/08
... a top-drawer thriller ...
06/26/08
A gem of a thriller, the best film I've seen this year, by far.
06/24/08
A delicious outpouring of upper-crust malevolence, hovering cynicism and ever-deepening ambivalence that zigzags dizzyingly among its many characters, locations and plot turns.
06/18/08
An ingenious puzzle driven by the need to recover the central emotional connection of one's life. The author and the auteur captivate the mind with a firm grip on that theme.
06/01/08
Thanks to the style in which [director Canet] carries off every unlikely twist, it's a lot of fun all the way to to the decidedly creaky denouement.
11/09/07
It becomes an intriguing game of chess with each of the players making moves we can't always follow but in which we're always interested. It's a murder mystery, but the murder (indeed, murders) is not what it seems.
11/01/07
It’s refreshing to see a thriller in which all of this information makes sense, falling into place as pieces of a coherent puzzle.
07/31/07
Hardly anyone can make good old American suspense thriller like the French.
04/25/07
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