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  • 2021
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary While stealing money to help their sick mother (Mena Suvari), teen brothers Matt and Joey (Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer) are surprised by Hamby (Rainn Wilson), a security officer who gives chase and is then trapped in a well. Over the next few days, Joey and Hamby forge an uneasy relationship. Hamby tells Joey he’ll keep quiet i...

Directed By: Alex McAulay

Written By: Alex McAulay

  • 2021
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Don't Tell a Soul

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary While stealing money to help their sick mother (Mena Suvari), teen brothers Matt and Joey (Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer) are surprised by Hamby (Rainn Wilson), a security officer who gives chase and is then trapped in a well. Over the next few days, Joey and Hamby forge an uneasy relationship. Hamby tells Joey he’ll keep quiet i...

Directed By: Alex McAulay

Written By: Alex McAulay

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Jan 14, 2021
McAulay has crafted a terse, bleak drama. It's reminiscent of the portrait of a corrupt male friendship in Super Dark Times, but with the added pressures of kinship and family. To describe Don't Tell a Soul as a story of toxic masculinity is both accurate but, in a time when every film with a flawed or unpleasant male an/protagonist gets that tag, almost glib. There's something rancid between the boys.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 19, 2021
An ambitious black comedy that never goes far enough.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 19, 2021
The notion of exploring how a young boy views the world through his manipulative older sibling’s eyes – and how poverty affects that developing worldview – is not a bad one. It’s just delivered haphazardly. I applaud McAulay’s efforts, but Don’t Tell a Soul is at its best when it’s simply having fun as a silly B-flick. Shut your brain off, enjoy – and, like with any guilty pleasure, don’t tell a soul you liked it.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 14, 2021
A plot twist saves (that might not be the word for it) Don’t Tell a Soul from being absolutely oppressive, merely by injecting a scintilla of “what happens next” appeal — and letting the always-interesting Wilson stretch a bit.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Unbridled Films, Mangano Movies & Media
Release Date Jan 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating R
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Tagline Some secrets should stay buried
Website https://www.instagram.com/dtasfilm/
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