Le Fate Ignoranti is a clever stab at the twilight world of the heterosexual male but it doesn't twist the knife. The premise is quite delicious.

| Dec 7, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext, skims over the realities of gay sex, and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight, middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2003

It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2003

It's a lovely film with lovely performances by Buy and Accorsi.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2003

A warm but realistic meditation on friendship, family and affection.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2003

A movie that grows better by the minute.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2003

Full of profound, real-life moments that anyone can relate to, it deserves a wide audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2002

A boisterous, occasionally deft but also finally strained and uneven work.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2002

The film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original, but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2002

Buy is an accomplished actress, and this is a big, juicy role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2002

Pure of intention and passably diverting, His Secret Life is light, innocuous and unremarkable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2002

As Antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community, the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure, daytime-drama sort of fashion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2002

It recycles every clich about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2002

Ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2002

It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self.

| Sep 17, 2002