Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Secret,’ like ‘Prisoners’ a couple years back, is a great-looking, well-cast thriller that goes nowhere and does nothing. What a waste.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: He sets up questions in the 2015 scenes (Why was Ray taken off the case? Why does Dean Norris’ character walk with a limp now?) that will eventually be answered in the 2002 scenes. The key word there is “eventually”; Ray teases out unsatisfying reveals far longer than they are worth waiting for.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: Secret in Their Eyes, a remake of the 2009 Oscar-winning Argentinian film of the same name, is an old-school, taut, and endlessly involving thriller.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Writer/director Billy Ray has sacrificed subtlety for sensationalism.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A pulpy. inferior remake of its Argentinean predecessor…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Secret in Their Eyes feels like a mystery suspense-thriller from the 1990s, distinguished most substantially by its A-list cast and a skillfully handled nonlinear structure that will only confuse those who refuse to pay attention.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: The central contrivance would alone sink a sound cop thriller. Ray’s grim, glacial remake is, alas, anything but sound, thanks mainly do the confusion caughted by flitting between decades.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Secret in Their Eyes comes to life when Roberts is on screen as Jess’s bitter hunger rages through the signs of fatigue and strain that weigh her down. Her eyes, and the creases and black circles that surround them, are the film’s weapon.
- [New – 2/25/16] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba, Comic Book Resources
- Excerpt: I’m astonished this movie is so thoroughly dull.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Dour, drab and lacking the powerful subtext of its Argentine model, it comes across as little more than a police procedural of the sort you can find any night on the tube.
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