Secrets & Lies Critic Reviews

Blethyn is so astonishing that you forget you're seeing a performance.Read the full review

It moves us on a human level, it keeps us guessing during scenes as unpredictable as life, and it shows us how ordinary people have a chance of somehow coping with their problems, which are rather ordinary, too.Read the full review

A magnificent melodrama that draws both tears and laughter from the everyday give-and-take of seemingly ordinary souls.Read the full review

If film means anything to you, if emotional truth is a quality you care about, this is an event that ought not be missed.Read the full review

Reveals itself detail by searing detail.Read the full review

Leigh goes right to the core of his character's lives and mines the place where we're weakest, most alone and sometimes the cruelest.Read the full review

Represents the director at his best -- unsentimental yet powerful, funny and poignant, and, in the end, undeniably satisfying.Read the full review

There's not a weak performance in Secrets And Lies, a fact made more notable by the seeming ease with which the cast performs as an ensemble.Read the full review

Unfolds beautifully, with a rueful, knowing intelligence that rises above easy assumptions. [27 September 1996, p.C1]Read the full review