Atmospheric and evocative... It's not the best of Farhadi, but even a lesser Farhadi is better than most films.

| Sep 18, 2019

The distractingly oft-repeated title seems to herald an unfortunate new approach to imparting information for Farhadi: everybody will know everything, even if it means clumsy exposition, heavy-handed foreshadowing, and redundancy.

| Mar 21, 2019

While Farhadi is a master of the drama, his gifts are at times an awkward fit for a kidnapping thriller. It is almost as if one bought a ticket for a Liam Neeson movie and wound up instead in a Strindberg play.

| Mar 21, 2019

While it's not vintage Farhadi, the film has merits, not least the magnificent Bárbara Lennie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2019

A film of heart-wrenching moments that never quite lands a telling emotional blow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2019

Here we are lost in a deracinated landscape somewhere between Agatha Christie and Aeschylus. The whodunnit tensions are too often vitiated by "who cares?"

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

Farhadi is an excellent screenwriter and an impressive handler of actors, but the film nonetheless adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

| Mar 4, 2019

The acting's uniformly strong, always at the service of a knotty story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2019

The film is briskly paced and visually gorgeous, the winegrowing region of Spain providing a colourful backdrop to the drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 2, 2019

A great finish can save an otherwise ho-hum movie, just as a flat ending can undo an otherwise strong one. "Everybody Knows" is an example of the latter. It's disappointing for everybody involved.

| Original Score: C | Mar 1, 2019

There's a lovely sense, throughout the film, of how real life sometimes interrupts things, the way a child's prattling disrupts the pretty wedding ceremony, or how even in the midst of grief breakfast must be made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 28, 2019

Everybody Knows is not Farhadi's best work, but he does deliver an affair to remember.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2019

The people in the movie are keeping secrets from each other, and "Everybody Knows" is keeping secrets from us.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 21, 2019

Farhadi ameliorates the sense of familiarity by bringing in more surprises.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2019

"Everybody Knows" is a reminder that sometimes we just want to go to movies to watch pretty people screw up their lives.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2019

If this is a "B" Asghar Farhadi film, it's still better than the "A" efforts of many other filmmakers.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2019

It's a look in philosophical harmony with Farhadi's intense but humane gaze. And the actors are superb...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2019

Think of it this way: If this were a book, it would be described as a page-turner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

Is "Everybody Knows" as searing and devastating a film as Farhadi's best work? Probably not, but it is surely one of his most relatable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2019

The movie is not to be skipped. You should sample its mixture of bacchanal and gall, and revel in Farhadi's dependable deftness, as he sketches and frames his collection of characters.

| Feb 9, 2019