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Critics score:
94 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Under the direction of Guillaume Canet, who adapted Harlan Coben's English-language best seller with Philippe Lefebvre, this is a splendid ensemble doing its level best to keep the audience guessing all the way through an increasingly knotty narrative. Read more

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Sara Cardace, New York Magazine/Vulture: This smash-hit French thriller starts slowly -- and builds into a sharp action flick, though an overload of plot twists threatens to bog things down midway through. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Cluzet's brooding performance propels the movie, and writer-director Guillaume Canet...skillfully orchestrates the cascading revelations. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Thrillers aren't always so thrilling, but Tell No One is -- and absorbing, sometimes perplexing and often stirring as well. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Tell No One is an intricate puzzle for a summer evening; a thriller with a rare touch of bittersweet romance. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: By and large, Tell No One is more interested in telling a knotty story than pondering its meaning, but in those rare deeper moments, Canet evokes how a tragedy can gather around a man and linger there, like a cloud of gnats. Read more

Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: Tell No One is a French action thriller and murder mystery that doesn't cheat. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Tell everyone about Tell No One. Not just because this is a top-notch thriller so twisty you may forget to breathe, but because for a long time it looked like you wouldn't be able to tell anyone at all. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Canet has a good feeling for lowlife atmosphere and he works up a few fine Hitchcockian twirls. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A story of upended love with a mystery that exerts its power till the very end. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Tell No One darts its way past all the improbabilities and clichA (C)s that weigh down most mysteries, shooting toward a conclusion that's both endearingly old-fashioned and satisfying. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: 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 more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Among the moviea(TM)s many delights are the fluctuating rhythms of its pacing, an atmospheric volatility that sets off the doctora(TM)s blooming paranoia against his sunlit, leafy surroundings, and a terrific cast. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: We know the material is artificially -- even deviously -- constructed, and we enjoy being manipulated by people who know what they're doing. But it's Cluzet's intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The story becomes so convoluted and contrived (pursued by police, Alex just happens to run into a patient's father, who owes the doctor a big favor) that much of the tension dissipates. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I haven't enjoyed so much pleasurably intrigue-laden suspense in ages, and it is charismatically acted, too. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A terrific mystery, equal parts haunting love story and nimble thriller. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There will be times you think it's too perplexing, when you're sure you're witnessing loose ends. It has been devised that way, and the director knows what he's doing. Even when it's baffling, it's never boring. Read more

Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: It attempts no improvements on the basic suspense formula. It just does everything really well: perfect pacing, lovely camera work, spot-on acting and an ingenious plot. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Tell No One maintains a rewarding balance of genuine emotion and high-tension entertainment. See it and tell everyone. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Although it might make your head spin, this case of Vertigo in cyberspace keeps us spellbound. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Tell No One is a thoroughly absorbing whodunit with more twists and switchbacks than the Le Mans racecourse. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Christophe Offenstein's fluid camera tracks the action well enough, but any pretence to subtlety or sophistication seems lost in translation. Read more

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Lisa Nesselson, Variety: A sharp, efficient package. Read more