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Tell No One
Music Box Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Kristin Scott-Thomas,
François Cluzet,
Marie-Josée Croze,
André Dussollier,
Jean Rochefort,
and
Marina Hands
Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben's international best-selling thriller about pediatrician Alexandre Beck, who still grieves for his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was murdered eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the original crime, the police reopen the case, and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest that Margot is somehow still alive and with a message that says "Tell no one." (Music Box Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Harlan Coben (novel)
Guillaume Canet
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Guillaume Canet
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 31, 2009
Theatrical: July 2, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
125 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French |
Alternative Title: Ne le dis à personne

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Tell No One's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected. The issue of how is a riddle that does more than tease --gives you an itch you won't want to stop scratching.

91
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The title Tell No One recalls the days when ads proclaimed, "No one will be seated after the first 15 minutes" and "Be considerate of your neighbors: Don't give away the ending of this picture." Both rules apply to this canny, refreshingly emotional and intuitive thriller.

90
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet, best known here for his own acting work in "Joyeux Noel" and "Love Me If You Dare," skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations.

90
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Spicing up the entire package is a screenplay by Canet and Philippe Lefebvre that bristles with wit and energy.

90
The New Yorker
David Denby
It’s Cluzet’s intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience.

90
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Crisply and competently filmed, Tell No One is an intriguing sample of new-school French cinema at the more commercial end of the spectrum.

90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Thrillers aren't always so thrilling, but Tell No One is -- and absorbing, sometimes perplexing and often stirring as well.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Author Coben, who says he is a fan of "stories that move you, that grab hold of your heart and do not let it go," has gotten a film that does exactly that.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
Indeed, you could argue that Tell No One is a variant on one of Hitchcock's favorite themes: the running man whose story no one (except us in the audience) believes. These fictions, of course, depend for their success on the French respect for rationalism (and their horror when reason is torn asunder by criminal irrationality).

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The movie brims over with action -- check out Alex's run through traffic on the Paris beltway -- but Canet scores a triumph by plumbing the violence of the mind.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A terrific mystery, equal parts haunting love story and nimble thriller.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Even when it's baffling, it's never boring. I've heard of airtight plots. This one is not merely airtight, but hermetically sealed.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The result is one of the twistiest thrillers in recent memory.

83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
In the fine tradition of well-made thrillers, it's enough that it all feels solid at the moment, and the final revelations are unexpected and seemingly inevitable.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
It's a solid study in paranoia and gamesmanship.

80
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Among the movie's many delights are the fluctuating rhythms of its pacing, an atmospheric volatility that sets off the doctor's blooming paranoia against his sunlit, leafy surroundings, and a terrific cast that includes Kristin Scott Thomas.

80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A crafty, swift, subtly stylish thriller.

80
Film Threat
KJ Doughton
Tell No One is a French variation on "The Fugitive," but it's a more subtle, discreet animal.

78
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Canet has a good feeling for lowlife atmosphere and he works up a few fine Hitchcockian twirls. Kristin Scott Thomas and Nathalie Baye round out the sleek cast.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The result is a whodunit so nicely crafted that you're tempted to forgive the Byzantine plot -- hell, you're even tempted to pretend you actually understand its twisting obscurities.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Canet and Lefevre pruned subplots and fixed the novel's ending -- it's now merely preposterous rather than patently absurd – but it's the cast that makes the genre clichés feel vivid and even fresh.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
The story starts at a low boil and quickly heats up, but the problem with Tell No One--a common problem with contemporary pulp literature--is that at some point, all the narrative's intriguing questions resolve with prosaic answers, delivered in long, convoluted speeches by people wielding guns.

75
Premiere
Priya Jain
It's difficult to enjoy a thriller in which the big reveal is such a clunker, but if there's an exception to that rule, Tell No One might be it.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Reyhan Harmanci
It just does everything really well: perfect pacing, lovely camera work, spot-on acting and an ingenious plot.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Enough talk; enough flashbacks. Sometimes the best thing a mystery can do is give its protagonist a reason to run like hell.

70
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Though almost laughably intricate in its plotting, this thoroughly Gallic adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel reps an entertaining sophomore outing for thesp-turned-director Guillaume Canet.

63
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The story becomes so convoluted and contrived that much of the tension dissipates.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Once the final character has put the last puzzle piece in place, courtesy of an epic explanation, a kind of relief sets in: Someone just needed to spell it all out. It does not entirely help.


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