2015 · thriller · mystery · crime
Secret in Their Eyes
Directed by Billy Ray1h 51m2015
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Our read: Secret in Their Eyes (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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