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

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

Days of Our Lives fans, enjoy.

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

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