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Everybody Knows

2018 ‘Todos lo saben’ Directed by Asghar Farhadi

Who did it?

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Penélope Cruz Javier Bardem Ricardo Darín Bárbara Lennie Inma Cuesta Jaime Lorente Eduard Fernández Sergio Castellanos Elvira Mínguez Roger Casamajor Sara Sálamo Ramón Barea Carla Campra José Ángel Egido Jordi Bosch Nella Rojas Paco Pastor Gómez Mar del Corral Esteban Ciudad

Alternative Title

Men alle vet

drama crime thriller mystery

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Popular reviews

Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 12

a layered, absorbing kidnapping (melo)drama about secrets, the specter of money, and how such things can curdle into the kind of resentment that’s starving for any chance to make itself real. Bardem rules, and the soapier elements worked for me on the strength of such a textured script. my fave Farhadi since A SEPARATION (though you should know i was iffy on THE SALESMAN and borderline loathed THE PAST).
Review by tysan ★★★½ 2

like if Prisoners and Mamma Mia (without the musical scenes) had a child. or probably not but anyway I really liked this and Javier Bardem has my heart!
Review by Allison M. ★★★½ 10

AFI Fest - Film #10

As a thriller, it was taut. However, a steamy love story between Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, it was not. "Everybody knows" is a phrase used in the beginning and we think we are let on in the secret early in the game. But the phrase "everybody knows" morphs into another animal and keeps everyone continually guessing.

Vegan alert:
-A bird craps on Javier Bardem and he cusses it out.
-A teenager plays with a dead bird in the bell tower.
-Eggs are served at a meal.
Review by Aaron Michael ★★★ 1

While not the reported mess that I thought it was going to be before the festival, Everybody Knows is another middling feature from director Asghar Farhadi. It's disappointing because he's capable of so much better (A Separation obviously, but also Fireworks Wednesday). A lot of this is just plain flat-footed; plot twists are shoehorned in, characterizations are uneven, and there's a distinct lack of focus as the story moves from each act to the next.

However, there was a lot that worked for me here. I'm a sucker for Farhadi's writing and the second hour delivers some of his best work. Penelope is fine, Javier is good, but Barbara Lennie - in a supporting role - steals the spotlight, delivering…
Review by franki_xcx ★★★½ 4

This might not be much about the movie itself, but just watching this at the Cannes Film Festival tonight was one of the happiest moments of my life. Knowing what I’ve been through and making it to the film festival of my dreams has made these past few days incredibly emotional, in the best possible way. When the lights went down and this film started I really just had this feeling in my chest that was so intense, like I wanted to scream so loudly in that moment just because I appreciate everything that has lead to this. I can’t wait for the next 10 days to just ruin me and collect my entire life.

Oh and this was very…
Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★★★★

Universal + FocusFeatures. Cinema
1.85:1
Color
Codex
15

“It's time that gives character, from personality to wine”

Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows) is an impacting emotionally distressing thriller with a superb central performance from Penélope Cruz, perhaps her best since the collaborative effort with cinematic muse Pedro Almodóvar on Los abrazos rotos. Farhadi’s film is a haunting, atmospheric and daunting tension wrapped story in a brittle and dark intensity.

80

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Recent reviews

Review by Hunter_Friesen ★★★½

Really engaging soapy mystery thriller that kept me guessing the whole way through. Farhadi's writing and directing is commendable and only stumbles at the very end where it left me on a sour note.
Review by Wolfentipp ★★★

Every shot of this movie looked like a baroque painting and I am 100% for that. Plotwise though, it's a little strange to think though that the people behind it had a daughter themselves.
Review by fern ★★★½

like the characters in the film i feel robbed. irene robbed of her innocence. laura robbed of her ability to protect her children. alejandro robbed of his privacy. paco robbed of lost time. i feel left wanting more from the film and answers, as is the family. a lot of suffering beneath the surface of each character. a complex family drama with lurking secrets that come to light over the power of resent and money
Review by emmegui ★★

Scontato, avevo gia capito tutto a metá film
Review by CINEMADHESIVE ★★★

Everybody knows this is incredibly okay work for Asghar Farhadi.
Review by Justin Doolittle ★★★½

You could say Farhadi’s films are getting a bit redundant, but whatever — these days, I’m grateful for basically any effort to make a serious film for adults, and very few filmmakers, if any, are churning out consistently excellent, properly funded dramas like he is. There’s a few underwhelming twists and reveals but the thriller element is just there to facilitate what he’s really interested in, which is the fragility of families, and what happens when deep wounds get ripped open. In any case I was absorbed from start to finish. Superb performances. Love the ending — yet another devastating family secret, sure to be buried, and just as sure to reveal itself some day.
Review by Tatang Setiawan ★★★

Untuk film Everybody Knows dari Asghar Farhadi ini memang menarik tapi tidak terlalu wah kalo soal ending. Dari awal malah udah kebaca ngarahnya mau kemana. Tapi masih favorite Director Asghar Farhadi buat saya.
Review by momalley ★★★½

Asghar Farhadi movies usually hinge on critical moments of ambiguous epistemology: how do we know what we know, and how many pieces of that process can we remove before we have to relinquish certainty? As the title implies, Everybody Knows involves a twist on that concept in the sense that it's an exploration of what happens at critical moments of certain epistemology: what happens when enough people know for certain information that had once been considered secret? When a child is kidnapped from a wedding reception, the movie's crisis is (in addition to the kidnapping itself) how this traumatic event reveals just how many people knew the supposed "secret" of this child's parentage--a sort of inverted About Elly. It lacks…
Review by isaacchasteen ★★★½

secrets secrets are no fun,
secrets secrets hurt someone