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Universal acclaim- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: This French thriller is an absorbing character study of two lonely outsiders (a deaf secretary and an ex-con), who gradually recognize their mutual dependency.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 32
  2. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Not a heist film, a thriller, a twisted romance, a film noir or a character study, but a unique concoction that bends all these genres to its vision.
  2. Expertly sinister, office-as-devil's-playground French thriller.
  3. 80
    Improbably, Read My Lips escapes the cynicism of much contemporary neo-noir, if only by a hair, by ending as a love story of delightful crackpot idealism, in which Paul has made a crook and a hussy out of Carla, and she's made a gentleman out of him.
  4. Devos is especially fine as a woman whose inner solitude carries depth charges.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

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