An anodyne and predictable drama about the tragedy of the holocaust. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 6, 2021

It's such a handsomely mounted and well-acted piece that few serious cinema-goers are likely to mind the circuitous path it takes in getting there.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It is a deeply moving and heartfelt story that makes an indelible impression on the viewers' hearts and minds.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2009

The title of this movie suggests the difficulty in writing about it. You can't reveal a secret without spoiling it, and in this intriguing, complex family drama spread out over several time frames covering half a century, the secrets keep on coming

| Mar 6, 2009

In Un Secret, French filmmaker Claude Miller expertly weaves together a family history, merging the personal and political, the celebratory and the tragic, while incorporating three distinct time periods.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2009

Sagnier beautifully plays the most crucial moment. She's part of a fine ensemble cast that somewhat obscures the heavy-handed symbolism and punch-pulling finale.

| Jan 9, 2009

Avoiding histrionics and overstatement, Un Secret reveals a story about a family's past suffering that may not be unique, but in this telling is quietly powerful.

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2008

Miller's lyrical use of fleshy details, such as the way de France's black bathing suit clings to her proud body, brings his movie a tactile humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2008

A structural mess that turns contrived just when it should be hitting home.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 19, 2008

Miller and his excellent cast create characters whom we can understand and even empathize with, even as they commit horrible breaches of faith.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2008

Beautifully and poignantly captures the complexities of being a Jew in France from the 1930's to the present, where layers of a family's history are revealed by jumping back and forth in time.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 1, 2008

A Secret is a showcase for great acting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 24, 2008

A remarkable film with an unusual story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A blue-chip cast and handsome stagings do little to prevent this French movie being a muddled, pretentious washout. Substantial re-editing might have helped.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A fine drama that stands as Gallic vet Claude Miller's best in at least a decade.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Suitably tense, sad, and deeply poignant.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2008

Given its crackerjack performances and fine evocation of period, Miller's film has already been a popular offering in Paris and should not long remain a secret from sophisticated moviegoers when it opens in the States.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2008