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The Secret in Their Eyes

El secreto de sus ojos

2009

Juan José Campanella

Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino ...

8.1

89,069

Thriller. Mystery. Drama Benjamin Esposito is a judicial employee who decides to retire after writing a novel about a criminal case, which has been a witness and protagonist. Writing the book on the murder occurred in Buenos Aires in 1974, leads him to investigate his own past and for a period of argentina history marked by violence and death.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Campanella weaves a moral fable that manages to pack a powerhouse punch and still be as intimate as a whisper."You won't be able to get this supremely intelligent and deeply touching thriller out of your head (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Holland Variety	"[It] is simply mesmerizing (...) The film is still more than the sum of its parts (...) Campanella’s finest film."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A complete, engrossing, lovingly crafted film. (...) This is a real movie, the kind they literally don't make very much anymore. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"An attractive, messy drama (...) The scenes between Mr. Darín and Ms. Villamil aren’t subtle (...) but they appealingly convey the warmth of habit and heat of regret."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A supremely watchable, well-made and well-acted movie with a dark, sinewy sense of history (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Handsome, fitfully absorbing, fundamentally trite (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"The appeal of 'The Secret in Their Eyes' lies in its lithe and mysterious quality. It deliberately blurs genre lines and storytelling styles."	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"A film of enormous pretension and not enough reward (...) Shallow and pretty obvious [themes] (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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