Critic Reviews
52
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
5(50%)
mixed
4(40%)
negative
1(10%)
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80
Powerfully moving but laced with incisive wit, Don't Tell has terrific performances with a wise tone and polished look.
75
Don't Tell often has the eerie feel of a Hitchcock film -- "Vertigo" in particular -- where you're not always sure if what you're seeing is really happening.
70
More than in her previous tales of dysfunctional families like "Marriages," she (Comencini) lightens the weight of angst with well-designed subplots, secondary characters and moments of tender humor.
63
It's swiftly paced and never dull, but the heavy-handed symbolism comes fast and thick.
63
Has strong performances, but the story takes too long to get off the ground. And once it does, it is told in a way that occasionally drags and goes off in meandering directions.
60
A persuasive if not groundbreaking drama.
50
As is typical of contemporary Italian movies, every one of Comencini's women seems on the verge of a hysterical collapse.
50
Don’t Tell is intelligent on the schizoid mental strategies of incestuous families, but its style and mood are so heavily drawn from television soap opera, I found myself more absorbed in the seriocomic lesbian subplot that rambles along entertainingly, if irrelevantly, on the periphery.
40
Don't Tell, which was unaccountably nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, is no better than a second-tier candidate for the Lifetime Channel.
38
Just because the goods are made in Italy doesn't mean they're designer-quality; Don't Tell is glossy on the outside, cardboard and staples on the inside.
