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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A complicated family story that takes place in three distinct time periods, and that's handled with astonishing ease and fluidity by director Claude Miller. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    A Secret is suitably tense, sad, and deeply poignant as it moves toward an epilogue exploring the idea that everything rots and decays, no mater how well-maintained. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Nearly every melodramatic impulse has been suppressed in favor of a calm precision that serves both to intensify and delay the emotional impact of the film's climactic disclosures. Read full review

  • 80
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    A clanking, old-fashioned period drama infused with almost unbearable grief, Claude Miller's film A Secret has an enormous significance in France that it can never possess elsewhere. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    Deepened by its complex back-and-forth chronology, deft shifts in perspective, and a significantly counterintuitive color-coding of past and present, A Secret suggests that it's not illicit passion, but rather the crime of denial, that has screwed up this family down the generations. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    A harrowing and wrenching coming-of-age story. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

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

  • 60
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    Beautifully acted and exquisitely photographed, director Claude Miller's superb drama, from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, is awash with the ripples created by unlived lives. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

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

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