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Everybody Knows

Todos lo saben

2018

Asghar Farhadi

Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández ...

6.5

17,459

Thriller. Drama “Everybody Knows” follows the journey of Laura as she travels with her family from Buenos Aires to her hometown in Spain for a celebration. Meant to be a brief family visit, the trip is disturbed by unforeseen events that will completely change the lives of Carolina and her family.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Farhadi’s weakest film yet is still better than the vast majority of commercially made dramas (...) This film lacks the precision — or ambition — of Farhadi’s earlier work."	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"'Everybody Knows' (Todos lo saben) has the classic ingredients of the best work of Asghar Farhadi (...) The result is an odd, somewhat underwhelming hybrid that’s part talky thriller, part family drama"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Farhadi reveals just enough involving details to pause at individual moments and rest on more intimate observations (...) A provocative meditation on the dynamics of communication"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"[Some] areas remain frustratingly underdeveloped (...) Given a gripping premise and a game cast [Farhadi] has engineered perhaps his most ordinary film."	NEU
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"The Iranian director is a master of examining the tensions of class and gender (...) [A] strong, disquieting work"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] adds up to less than the sum of its parts. The high emotional temperature of the performances can’t quite disguise the mechanical nature of the story"	NEU
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"Farhadi’s forte is evoking contemporary moral dilemmas that play out in melodramatic relationships (...) Farhadi seems uncomfortable with his foray into farcical and comic elements"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Intimately painful and powerfully acted (...) Anchored by three heavyweight performances from Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darín (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"Asghar Farhadi deftly inserts love, resentment, class, money and family ties into a propulsive narrative (...) Solidly entertaining"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Farhadi’s screenplay does an artful job of keeping vital fragments of each of its characters secret (...) The climate of over-determined melodrama is rather less involving (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"Farhadi’s forte is evoking contemporary moral dilemmas that play out in melodramatic relationship (...) Farhadi seems uncomfortable with his foray into farcical and comic elements"	NEU

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