The much lauded foreign film "The Secret in Their Eyes" contains some absolutely beautiful lines in it, stuff about needing to let go of the past or all you'll wind up with is memories, but beyond that, it's a made-for-TV movie. I really don't know how critics can watch films like this and say that they are the "most compelling crime story" or "most compelling love story". Neither were all that intriguing. In fact, I nearly fell asleep. In a foreign film, critics are impressed when a film hits points from many different genres. In American films, they complain that a film isn't sure what it wanted to be.

The first two examples I had of critics loving foreign language films a bit too much were "A Prophet" and "Mother" but at least those films were decent and I could see how people would fall for them. But besides a couple of very cool shots and some nice dialogue, this film was borderline tedious.

I don't recommend this film at all. In fact, since the best part is the dialogue, I'd recommend just checking out the novel on which it's based instead. That might be a bit more interesting.