Tell No One
Music Box Films | Release Date: July 2, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
Has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs. Read full review
91
Baltimore SunMichael 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. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley 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. Read full review
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The result is one of the twistiest thrillers in recent memory. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJ.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. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Enough talk; enough flashbacks. Sometimes the best thing a mystery can do is give its protagonist a reason to run like hell. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter 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. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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. Read full review
80
Film ThreatKJ Doughton
Tell No One is a French variation on "The Fugitive," but it's a more subtle, discreet animal. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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. Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The story becomes so convoluted and contrived that much of the tension dissipates. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A terrific mystery, equal parts haunting love story and nimble thriller. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc 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. Read full review
75
PremierePriya 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. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter 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. Read full review
90
SalonAndrew 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. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleReyhan Harmanci
It just does everything really well: perfect pacing, lovely camera work, spot-on acting and an ingenious plot. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
It's a solid study in paranoia and gamesmanship. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel 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. Read full review
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. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Spicing up the entire package is a screenplay by Canet and Philippe Lefebvre that bristles with wit and energy. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Beautifully written and acted, Tell No One is a labyrinth in which to get deliriously lost. Read full review
90
The New YorkerDavid Denby
It’s Cluzet’s intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience. Read full review
90
TimeRichard 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). Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland 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. Read full review
70
VarietyLisa 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. Read full review
80
Village VoiceElla 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. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Thrillers aren't always so thrilling, but Tell No One is -- and absorbing, sometimes perplexing and often stirring as well. Read full review
80
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A crafty, swift, subtly stylish thriller. Read full review
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