Everybody Knows (2019)

A joyous wedding celebration in a wine region of Spain turns bad when a guest, the teenaged girl of an Argentinian family, disappears, possibly kidnapped, in Asghar Farhadi's beautifully acted, beautiful-to-look-at, absorbing, but ultimately inconsequential crime drama that spends so long on its sumptuous set-up, there's no time for the mystery except for in a series of lurching scenes in the film's final third in which the plot doesn't so much develop as the audience is perfunctorily caught up on a situation everyone except the audience (and perhaps, unimportantly, one or two other characters) already knows.

★★★☆☆

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The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos) (2009)

In this engrossing romantic mystery thriller from Argentina, a criminal investigator in retirement played by the captivating Ricardo Darin looks back upon a murder case for inspiration for a novel and as the movie switches backwards and forwards between the brutal events of the past and his and his colleagues' memories of them, questions are raised about seizing life, living with grief, and seeking justice and revenge.

★★★★☆

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