Secret in Their Eyes
Rising FBI investigators Ray and Jess, along with Claire, their district-attorney supervisor, are suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
22 May 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 October 1986, Santa Ana, California, USA
7 February 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 October 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
March 25, 2017
Its main problem is that it fails to generate suspense, excitement or the right mood despite its A-lister cast.
December 09, 2016
In this rendering, the story seems like little more than a made-for-TV kitchen-sink job about obsession... If there's a political message... it is hackneyed as well as crudely and artlessly delivered.
November 20, 2015
It's Julia Roberts who owns the movie. As the grieving Jess, a woman reduced to a shadow by the death of her daughter, Roberts is a revelation here.
August 22, 2016
This remake was a welcome punch to the gut I couldn't help but be moderately impressed by
November 20, 2015
Essentially a grim procedural with too many moments of untapped potential and a moderately shocking twist.
November 24, 2015
Can we believe that police officers would let a psychopathic rapist and murderer go free in the name of fighting homegrown terrorism? As an allegory for human-rights abuses during the War on Terror, it's a non-starter.
November 20, 2015
What DOESN'T get lost in translation is what made "El Secreto De Sus Ojos" so effective: the visceral, devastating empathy we feel when a horrible injustice is committed and it ruins multiple lives.
November 20, 2015
A dream-team cast is wasted in this contrived and morose crime thriller.
January 10, 2017
Just because a movie is downbeat or depressing doesn't make it deeper than movies with more style. Sometimes it makes a movie downright shallow.
December 03, 2015
An English-language remake of Juan José Campanella's far superior Argentinian thriller.
December 05, 2016
All the glamour and intrigue of that original film is gone, and Secret in their Eyes proves that throwing movie stars at a story is not always the best way to tell it.
