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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The acting is exceptional. If parts of A Secret veer toward soap opera, the ensemble work reduces the suds to a minimum. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The title of this movie suggests the difficulty in writing about it. You can't reveal a secret without spoiling it, and in this intriguing, complex family drama spread out over several time frames covering half a century, the secrets keep on coming Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A structural mess that turns contrived just when it should be hitting home. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A harrowing and wrenching coming-of-age story in which Francois wrestles with the question of identity. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The secret uncovered by an adolescent in 1950s Paris is strikingly specific, yet echoes with the history of millions. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Claude Miller's World War II domestic drama is unusually attentive to the way that the Holocaust disrupted lives that were messy enough to begin with. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: If identity is at the soul of A Secret, a tragic romance is its heart. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Claude Miller's ravishingly shot drama gives up its titular mystery early, but there's plenty of cinematic intrigue well after what's covert in this complicated family story becomes overt. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Beautifully acted and exquisitely photographed, director Claude Miller's superb drama, from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, is awash with the ripples created by unlived lives. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The soapy climax is unnecessary. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Transcends the perhaps perceived banality of still another film about the Holocaust with a marvelously nuanced narrative floating through time with memorable characters who never beg for our pity. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A clanking, old-fashioned period drama infused with almost unbearable grief, Claude Miller's film A Secret has an enormous significance in France that it can never possess elsewhere. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A Secret is a showcase for great acting. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Miller, a skilled veteran, reverses the old visual pattern for films with lengthy flashbacks: he shoots the past in color and the (evolving) present in black and white. Read more