Tell No One (2008)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 84 Fresh: 77 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus:
An intense, well-crafted thriller, Tell No One is equal parts heart-pounding and heart-wrenching.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 2, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $4,383,900
Synopsis: Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex's thought-to-be dead wife in real time.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marina Hands, Marie-Josee Croze, André Dussollier
Director: Guillaume Canet
Screenwriter: Guillaume Canet, Philippe Lefebvre
Producer: Alain Attal
Composer: Mathieu Chedid
Screenwriter: Guillaume Canet, Philippe Lefebvre
Producer: Alain Attal
Composer: Mathieu Chedid
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Reviews
Canet stages some breakneck chases, particularly one where Alex crosses a busy freeway, and corrals an array of fascinating characters to populate this twisty but entirely logical plot.
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09/05/08
It's a potboiler -- not groundbreaking or brilliant, but solidly entertaining.
09/02/08
Tell No One is a French action thriller and murder mystery that doesn't cheat.
08/28/08
Top Critic
Constructed like a calling card for Hollywood employment, as when a montage of funeral and wedding memories is underscored with 'Lilac Wine' by Jeff Buckley.
08/25/08
Sews us tightly into a story that not only challenges the brain but engages the heart.
08/22/08
It has a terrific setup that keeps us interested (it's based on a well-regarded novel by Harlan Coben), and there's at least one really great, thrilling action scene that makes the whole thing watchable.
08/22/08
[An] engaging, well-acted French thriller based on a novel by American writer Harlan Coben.
08/22/08
A wonderfully entertaining, occasionally very funny, always involving thriller that never insults your intelligence.
08/13/08
Feels like an episode of The Fugitive turned more darkly into The Big Sleep.
08/09/08
Tell No One is good enough to warrant not only a long run in art houses, but considerable attention for a director who dared to tweak a hugely popular novel and made it work.
08/08/08
Tell No One, French director Canet's excellent adaptation of Harlan Coben's bestselling novel, has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs.
08/01/08
These classy people are put to the trashiest ends, and, for the most part, it's a pleasure to see them rooting around in the garbage.
08/01/08
Top Critic
A French thriller that teases the intellect, shocks the senses and is sometimes simply too suspenseful for comfort.
08/01/08
Tell No One feels like a novel, rich with character and incident, unafraid to demand attention from its audience while unspooling a twisting, suspenseful story.
08/01/08
Tell No One is a classic modern-Hollywood thriller, a movie with a layered murder mystery, a frame-up, gangsters, conspiracies and one dazzling chase.
08/01/08
Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet...skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations.
08/01/08
Top Critic
Actually too clever by half, but also so skillfully played that it carries you breathlessly along for the duration.
07/28/08
if Hollywood has all but given up on making clever genre exercises for adults, let's be grateful that a few filmmakers from across the pond haven't
07/28/08
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.
07/27/08
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