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Movie Overview
Cast
• Francois Cluzet
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Marina Hands
Director
• Guillaume Canet
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Video/DVD Releases
Jan 27, 2009 (DVD)
Tell No One (2008)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh
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4/5
"Tell No One retains all the slick dynamism and tension of a classic Hollywood thriller without ever seeming anything but French."  Channel 4 Film  Anton Bitel

2.5/5
"never comes to grips with its standard-issue plot mechanics, delivering neither the icy thriller that its cool detachment edges towards, nor the pulse-quickening potboiler that its story would seem to demand."  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

B-
"Feels like an episode of The Fugitive turned more darkly into The Big Sleep."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

B
"It's a potboiler -- not groundbreaking or brilliant, but solidly entertaining."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

B+
"Actually too clever by half, but also so skillfully played that it carries you breathlessly along for the duration."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

4/5
"A classy and sophisticated French murder mystery that is well-acted."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

A-
"Easily one of the best films of the year."  Modern Fabulousity  Gabriel Shanks

B-
"A diversionary end-of-summer time-killer."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

3.5/4
"Thriller, love story, whodunit; an unwieldy trio made whole by an up-and-coming mastermind."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

C+
"overpacked...technically proficient and will be sure to delight mystery fans, but despite Cluzet's centering performance, the film moves too fast to engage with the lives at stake."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

4/6
"Actor-turned-filmmaker Guillaume Canet relocates Harlan Coben’s best-selling thriller from the U.S. to France and deploys a first-rate cast on its outlandish twists and turns, with remarkably entertaining results."  Time Out New York  Maitland McDonagh

3/4
"The film delivers the requisite twists and turns, along with car chases, gun fights and soupçon of thug life, Paris style."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

4/5
"As brisk as things become, clarity wins out, as the hand-held camerawork Bourne for many a chase sequence has no place here."  IdentityTheory  Matthew Sorrento

3/4
"Hitchcock's "Wrong Man" scenario gets an invigorating French update in Tell No One, a long-winded but gripping thriller based on American author Harlan Coben's bestseller."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

4/5
" Now that I have let it settle in my head for a few days, I have come to sort of embrace it after all, not despite the lunacy of its plot but because of it."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3.5/5
"This twisty thriller nicely avoids Hollywood formulae, keeping us gripped to the complicated story and characters"  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

B
"The sometimes confused story %u2013 with so many players, a who's who checklist is needed to keep things clear %u2013 is aided with the oft-thrilling chases that punctuate the film."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

7/10
"A man wakes from unconsciousness to find his wife dead and himself the center of suspicion as strange forces and deadly assassins close in from all sides. So many twists and turns it would hard to encapsulate spoilers for this one."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

7/10
"This superbly acted and directed French thriller is eerie and suspenseful. But it's convoluted, complicated storytelling with an abrupt, anti-climactic resolution."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf

3/5
Read review  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick
OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh
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