Everybody Knows

Focus Features | Release Date: February 8, 2019

7.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 61 Ratings

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hnestlyontheslyOct 7, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. For all of its high powered stars and its talented director, Everybody Knows is kind of a snooze. The whodunit keeps you guessing, not about who’s pulling the strings, but more so about how much longer the story can meander before it reaches its inevitable end. One of the twists is not surprising for its creativity as it is for how mature and responsible everyone is about the situation. And once the villain is revealed, it sucks all of the tension out of the room and makes you notice how little you really cared about the outcome anyway.

Seeing the trailer for this film and even now, it seems like this must be the future of American film making, or at least a sizeable portion of the market: bankable Hollywood stars making Spanish language films with wide appeal for non-native speakers. So too, with earlier iterations like Will Ferrell’s Casa De Mi Padre, starring Gael Garcia Bernal (Rosewater) and Diego Luna (Star Wars: Rogue One), or Pan’s Labyrinth, which introduced the Spanish horror director Guillermo del Toro, with only Hellboy on his record in terms of big budget English-language films, to a wider audience. That being said, no one asked for a derivative kidnapping narrative driven primarily by ominous texts and a bunch of catty relatives. One of the silver linings of this film is Bárbara Lennie’s character Bea who is impossibly beautiful, to the point of confusion. How could Paco feel any residual regret for Laura when he’s married to Bea?

It’s little weird things like this that will stay with you long after you have left the theater after Everybody Knows, sitting in your stomach like half-digested spring rolls. We deserve better.… Expand

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