Juan José Campanella’s The Secret in Their Eyes, the Argentinian picture that won this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, is well-acted, nicely constructed and beautiful to look at. Its story — about a criminal court investigator who begins pursuing a horrific rape and murder case in 1974 that, thanks to a mingling of factors including procedural glitches, judicial mishandling and government corruption, continues to haunt him 25 years later — is worked out with care. The ending is satisfying and somewhat surprising. In short, there’s almost nothing wrong with it. Almost.
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REVIEW: Secret in Their Eyes Paints by Oscar-Winning Numbers
