Don't Tell, Italy's submission for the foreign-language Oscar, has strong performances, but the story takes too long to get off the ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2006

The film meanders and becomes painfully arbitrary in its storyline... Child abuse + funny lesbians = hilarious!!!

| Mar 21, 2006

Though tackling such potentially subversive subjects as incest and lesbianism, this inexplicably Oscar-nominee from Italy is basically a Lifetime Original performed as a magic show.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2006

Well worth seeing for its sensitive and never maudlin portrayal of a sister and brother bonded together by a family secret.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2006

Here's the problem with Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell: it should have been directed by Pedro Almodovar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

Days of Our Lives fans, enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

It's swiftly paced and never dull, but the heavy-handed symbolism comes fast and thick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

Just because American films frequently exploit repressed memories as a plot device in nasty genre pictures doesn't make the genteel Don't Tell a sophisticated or particularly insightful film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2006

A persuasive if not groundbreaking drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2006

Don't Tell, which was unaccountably nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, is no better than a second-tier candidate for the Lifetime Channel.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 16, 2006

Goes off on too many tangents from the central story with irrelevant subplots that might actually have been decent movies on their own.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 16, 2006

A not-bad soap opera.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2006

A well-acted melodrama with some engaging characters and a storyline that holds the attention

Full Review | Mar 16, 2006

The lifelong shame and trauma experienced by the victims of childhood incest are grippingly dramatized by Cristina Comencini, consummate mistress of Italian family drama, in Don't Tell, probably her most successful film.

| Mar 16, 2006

Comencini translates these tensions from her novel Beast in the Heart with a literal hand that is inclined to underscore anguished looks with explanatory flashbacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2006

Such tales are the issue du jour stateside, which makes Don't Tell's slavish adherence to Dr. Phil-inspired recovered-memory orthodoxies seem more than a touch ingenuous.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2006

A paradigmatically mediocre foreign-film-Oscar nominee.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2006

Comencini is attempting to put on some kind of show about modern gender and sexuality issues, but that's all it is: a show, and a fatuous one at that.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 24, 2006

Powerfully moving but laced with incisive wit.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2005

A crowd-pleasing Italian melodrama... but the humour and the drama do not mix well and Boni and Mezzogiorno never really convince.

| Oct 24, 2005