Tell No One (2008)

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Initially complex, the piece's grip loosens with the introduction of a transparent villain, but it remains an entertaining thriller bolstered by Cluzet's appropriately angst-driven performance.

Easily one of the best films of the year.

By and large, Tell No One is more interested in telling a knotty story than pondering its meaning, but in those rare deeper moments, Canet evokes how a tragedy can gather around a man and linger there, like a cloud of gnats.

Canet has a good feeling for lowlife atmosphere and he works up a few fine Hitchcockian twirls.

Although it might make your head spin, this case of Vertigo in cyberspace keeps us spellbound.

An absorbing thriller, one that works its narrative complications over a genuinely moving emotional foundation and is spiked with just enough dark humor to keep it from becoming overly serious.

...the pleasures here are more visceral than cerebral or emotional. It's really more of a thrill ride than the sort of art-house talkie you might expect

As brisk as things become, clarity wins out, as the hand-held camerawork Bourne for many a chase sequence has no place here.