By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Bárbara Lennie | Eduard Fernández | Inma Cuestra | Javier Bardem | Penélope Cruz | Ricardo Darín
Original language title: Todos lo saben
Country: france, italy, spain
Year: 2019
Running time: 133
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4964788/reference
Chris says: “Asghar Fahardi’s latest is his least essential feature to date, but only when you consider his exceptional track record. If you’ve already seen A SEPARATION, THE PAST and all the rest, you could do much worse than this tale of kidnapping and open secrets–a domestic thriller that is more or less his first real genre picture. Featuring the biggest stars he’s ever worked with (Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, both good) and a new setting (Spain), it reprises the familial and class conflicts he’s always focused upon; it fully registers and mostly satisfies, but it’s also threatening to become a little rote.”