The Secrets We Keep
Bleecker Street | Release Date: September 16, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleSep 17, 2020
With a small cast and a handful of locations – the only other character of note is Rachel (Seimetz), Thomas’ unsuspecting wife – The Secrets We Keep blends the best of B-movie thrillers and black box theatre. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustSep 16, 2020
The genre elements are nicely balanced by the adult drama embodied in the lead quartet’s performances, especially Rapace’s turn that is part femme fatale, part damaged soul. Read full review
67
Original-CinKim HughesOct 22, 2020
Approached with a casual regard for logic, period thriller The Secrets We Keep is entertaining enough to recommend though it never feels quite as original or shocking as the filmmakers — working with a plainly Hitchcockian roadmap — likely hoped for. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDerek SmithSep 14, 2020
The film is ultimately too tidy to embrace anything truly startling or unexpected, either stylistically or narratively. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 20, 2021
What sense there is of big ideas being thoughtfully chewed over stems largely from Rapace’s steely, wounded central performance, which often feels like a decade-later echo of her work in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films. Read full review
60
VarietyDennis HarveySep 16, 2020
This “Death and the Maiden”-like suspense drama is neither fully convincing nor particularly original, its narrative running a course that feels somewhat predictable from the outset. But it’s still strong enough to be effective. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenSep 15, 2020
A dramatic thriller tackling serious themes — the aftermath of war, the cost of retribution and the possibility of redemption — the movie can't always get out of its own way, as reliably effective as Rapace is. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 14, 2020
A solid, well-acted, and slightly predictable drama of morals whose novelty evaporates once you realize that the general beats of the story itself have been presented before, to far more haunting effect. Read full review
50
The Film StageChristian GallichioSep 17, 2020
The Secrets We Keep is a film in search of a more coherent message. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 24, 2020
A listless, half-baked, vaguely Hitchcockian thriller about a Romani Holocaust survivor. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyMary SollosiSep 18, 2020
For the most part, though, these secrets aren't worth passing along. Read full review
40
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 16, 2020
What grates about director Yuval Adler and his co-writer Ryan Covington pilfering so obviously from Dorfman’s work is that they haven’t done anything particularly interesting with it. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergSep 15, 2020
An exploitation film that proceeds as if it were a solemn memorial, The Secrets We Keep doesn’t do right by the Holocaust history it invokes — or much else. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 16, 2020
While I rather doubt that co-writer/director Yuval Adler pitched his new picture as “'Death and the Maiden' meets ‘Leave it to Beaver,’” that sure is what he ended up with, conceptually at least. Read full review
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