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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

5/09/2020

Everybody Knows (2019)

Laura, her teenage daughter and her young son travel home to Spain for a wedding. Also at the wedding is her former boyfriend and his wife. When there's an abduction with a ransom demand, the entire family begins to unravel.

I like that we're kept in the dark until near the end -- that we're working hard to figure out what has happened along with the family. It's tense and sad and all of the emotions we see are earned and believable. It's a good story performed excellently. Cruz is amazing but Bardem is the star here.

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