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Secret In Their Eyes

2015

Billy Ray

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Dean Norris ...

5.3

4,504

Thriller. Mystery A tight-knit team of rising FBI investigators – Ray and Jess, along with their District Attorney supervisor Claire – is suddenly torn apart when they discover that Jess’s teenage daughter has been brutally and inexplicably murdered. Now, thirteen years later, after obsessively searching every day for the elusive killer, Ray finally uncovers a new lead that he’s certain can permanently resolve the case, nail the vicious murderer, and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"In the languid remake 'Secret in Their Eyes,' the awkward missing "The" in its title poses a more intriguing mystery than anything on the screen. (...) Ray's Americanized redux isn't a disaster, exactly; it keeps its head down and does its job."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"Despite the acting heft of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, this English language remake of the lauded Argentinian noir is a tepid imitation (...) you're likely to forget this movie after 45 minutes. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A smartly conceived remake. (...) It can be both as gripping and as lacking in nuance as its predecessor, (...) a solid genre outing with unsettling topical resonance."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Clever but workmanlike English-language remake. (...) plays like a serviceable feat of narrative surgery, though it does boast one masterstroke in the reworking of a key role, played here by Julia Roberts"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Three very talented actors who seem to be working in three different movies. (...) “Secret” contains a passel of interesting ideas and effective scenes that don't add up to an interesting whole."	NEU
United States	Nick Schager IndieWire	"A clunky and increasingly absurd Americanized adaptation (...) r a tale that drops its romantic and timely anti-terror threads in order to more fully concentrate on the most preposterous surprise ending in recent memory"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"What DOESN’T get lost in translation is what made 'El Secreto De Sus Ojos' so effective (...) Julia Roberts gives one of her most authentic and least movie-star-like performances (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Unconvincing and overheated fashion in 'Secret In Their Eyes', an English-language remake of the 2009 Oscar-winning thriller that fails as both a character study and an exploration of the dangers of obsession."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Not such a good idea remaking the 2009 Argentine thriller (...) The Americanized version is miscast, misguided and misbegotten (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Sad to say: There is far more crackle in an average episode of 'Law & Order'."	NEG
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"It hopes to be a suspenseful political yarn carrying a deep message about state security and personal tragedy. Instead it's a flabby whodunit of injury and retaliation that underserves its veteran cast (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU

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