Cache (Hidden)

Newsweek David Ansen

This brilliantly disturbing movie is constructed with surgical precision. Haneke lets no one off the hook least of all the viewer.

Time Richard Corliss

We the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A perplexing and disturbing film of great effect.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

In this movie, Auteuil ("Jean de Florette") and Binoche ("Chocolat") are such marvelous actors, they can shift us in almost any emotional direction with a speech or a glance.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Like Hitchcock, only creepier, Haneke slowly cranks up the suspense.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

One of the most vital and strangely gripping films in recent years, a thriller more opaque, involving and realistic than just about anything that Hollywood is capable of.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Haneke echoes the theme of Hitchcock's "Rear Window": Moviemaking is basically an act of voyeurism. We secretly examine people's lives in every movie. But in this one, there is a hidden camera, a movie within the movie as it were, forcing us to observe a character along side a mysterious stranger.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Binoche and Auteuil are both quietly sensational in their fracturing personae, but the film is Haneke's premier postmodern assault--less visceral, perhaps, than "Code Unknown" and the criminally underappreciated "Time of the Wolf," but more thoughtful and, in the end, deeper in the afterplay.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Caché seems at first glance like a straightforward thriller - about a talk-show host being stalked by a technologically savvy blackmailer. But it's really a sly, subversive commentary on conscience, race, class and inequity.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A deliciously elusive mystery.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Caché is unsettling and tense, even shocking. And its story of enduring tensions between an Algerian immigrant and a well-off French family is particularly timely.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Haneke peels back the layers of Georges Laurent as slowly and dispassionately as a scientist dissecting a diseased mouse. The ending arrives with the power and inevitability of Greek drama.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Haneke is best known for "The Piano Teacher." His latest, Caché (or Hidden) is a quieter but equally provocative attack. It's less in your face, more in your head and under your skin.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

An extraordinarily taunt and suspenseful psychological thriller.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

This is the most Hitchcockian of Haneke's films. A seemingly well-adjusted man in a well ordered universe is brought to the brink.

Empire David Parkinson

Whether viewed as a political allegory or a domestic drama, this is the most accessible film yet from one of Europe’s very finest filmmakers.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

A tightly constructed drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle without a solution about surveillance and various kinds of denial finds writer-director Michael Haneke near the top of his game, though it's not a game everyone will want to play.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

On a deeper level, Haneke tries to reach for political allegory on the French-Algerian War, but the film functions best as a perfectly calibrated thriller, perhaps his most accessible to date.

Variety Deborah Young

A tightly plotted and paced thriller whose not-so-hidden agenda is to expose the bad conscience of the world's haves toward its have-nots, "Hidden" is one of Austrian helmer Michael Haneke's most watchable and pungent works.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

The eerily timely subject of Haneke's film is France's unwilling encounter with the disenfranchised minorities it has tried to sweep under the rug. As one who giggled through his widely admired, irredeemably silly "The Piano Teacher," I wasn't prepared to be easily won over by Caché, but it turns out to be his most human and affecting movie to date.

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

To some degree, “Hidden” is a cat-and-mouse thriller, the only problem being that mouse and cat insist on swapping roles.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

While this film can seem politically simplistic, it is nonetheless psychologically astute, and more complicated than it at first appears.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Demanding, quietly breathtaking film.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

What's compelling about Caché is not the answer to the whodunit but Haneke's exacting invocation of palpable tension.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

What really makes Hidden so involving is Haneke's sometimes maddening insistence on keeping things vague.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Anyone looking for the comfort in a tense thriller ending in a satisfying restoration of order and psychological security will be bitterly disappointed, but Haneke isn't in the business of encouraging comforting illusions.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

It isn't your typical scary movie--there are no "boo!" moments--but it may gradually creep you out and perhaps even more after you've seen it.

The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann

As with much art of our time--music, painting, sculpture, theater--Caché in a certain way affronts us. Its deliberate contravention of our expectations, and not necessarily stodgy expectations, is part of its intent.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

While Caché offers food for thought, the last third is muddled.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Cache is the feel-guilty movie of the new millennium.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

In the important things, in all the ways that really count, Caché is a handsome fraud.