Caché (Hidden)
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 23, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
NewsweekDavid Ansen
This brilliantly disturbing movie is constructed with surgical precision. Haneke lets no one off the hook least of all the viewer. Read full review
100
TimeRichard Corliss
We the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open. Read full review
100
VarietyDeborah Young
A tightly plotted and paced thriller whose not-so-hidden agenda is to expose the bad conscience of the world's haves toward its have-nots, "Hidden" is one of Austrian helmer Michael Haneke's most watchable and pungent works. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off. Read full review
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Demanding, quietly breathtaking film.
100
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A tightly constructed drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A perplexing and disturbing film of great effect. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
In this movie, Auteuil ("Jean de Florette") and Binoche ("Chocolat") are such marvelous actors, they can shift us in almost any emotional direction with a speech or a glance. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams. Read full review
100
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
It isn't your typical scary movie--there are no "boo!" moments--but it may gradually creep you out and perhaps even more after you've seen it. Read full review
100
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Like Hitchcock, only creepier, Haneke slowly cranks up the suspense. Read full review
100
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Caché is Michael Haneke's masterpiece: a compelling politico-psychological essay about the denial and guilt mixed into the foundations of Western prosperity, composed and filmed with remarkable technique. It is one of the great films of this decade. Read full review
91
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
One of the most vital and strangely gripping films in recent years, a thriller more opaque, involving and realistic than just about anything that Hollywood is capable of. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Haneke echoes the theme of Hitchcock's "Rear Window": Moviemaking is basically an act of voyeurism. We secretly examine people's lives in every movie. But in this one, there is a hidden camera, a movie within the movie as it were, forcing us to observe a character along side a mysterious stranger. Read full review
90
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Binoche and Auteuil are both quietly sensational in their fracturing personae, but the film is Haneke's premier postmodern assault--less visceral, perhaps, than "Code Unknown" and the criminally underappreciated "Time of the Wolf," but more thoughtful and, in the end, deeper in the afterplay. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality. Read full review
90
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Caché is unsettling and tense, even shocking. And its story of enduring tensions between an Algerian immigrant and a well-off French family is particularly timely. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Caché seems at first glance like a straightforward thriller - about a talk-show host being stalked by a technologically savvy blackmailer. But it's really a sly, subversive commentary on conscience, race, class and inequity. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A deliciously elusive mystery. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Casts a spell that grips you and won't let go. The film works as a provocation, on a personal and a political level. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Haneke is best known for "The Piano Teacher." His latest, Caché (or Hidden) is a quieter but equally provocative attack. It's less in your face, more in your head and under your skin. Read full review
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Haneke peels back the layers of Georges Laurent as slowly and dispassionately as a scientist dissecting a diseased mouse. The ending arrives with the power and inevitability of Greek drama. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
This is the most Hitchcockian of Haneke's films. A seemingly well-adjusted man in a well ordered universe is brought to the brink. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
An extraordinarily taunt and suspenseful psychological thriller. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
This brilliant if unpleasant puzzle without a solution about surveillance and various kinds of denial finds writer-director Michael Haneke near the top of his game, though it's not a game everyone will want to play. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
On a deeper level, Haneke tries to reach for political allegory on the French-Algerian War, but the film functions best as a perfectly calibrated thriller, perhaps his most accessible to date. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The eerily timely subject of Haneke's film is France's unwilling encounter with the disenfranchised minorities it has tried to sweep under the rug. As one who giggled through his widely admired, irredeemably silly "The Piano Teacher," I wasn't prepared to be easily won over by Caché, but it turns out to be his most human and affecting movie to date. Read full review
80
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
To some degree, “Hidden” is a cat-and-mouse thriller, the only problem being that mouse and cat insist on swapping roles. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
While this film can seem politically simplistic, it is nonetheless psychologically astute, and more complicated than it at first appears. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
Whether viewed as a political allegory or a domestic drama, this is the most accessible film yet from one of Europe’s very finest filmmakers. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
What's compelling about Caché is not the answer to the whodunit but Haneke's exacting invocation of palpable tension. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Anyone looking for the comfort in a tense thriller ending in a satisfying restoration of order and psychological security will be bitterly disappointed, but Haneke isn't in the business of encouraging comforting illusions. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
What really makes Hidden so involving is Haneke's sometimes maddening insistence on keeping things vague. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
As with much art of our time--music, painting, sculpture, theater--Caché in a certain way affronts us. Its deliberate contravention of our expectations, and not necessarily stodgy expectations, is part of its intent. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
While Caché offers food for thought, the last third is muddled. Read full review
58
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Cache is the feel-guilty movie of the new millennium. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
In the important things, in all the ways that really count, Caché is a handsome fraud. Read full review
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