Review: 'Everybody Knows,' with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, is a dense but mechanical mystery
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Dec 03, 2018
3 minutes
"Everybody Knows" unfolds over a sun-dappled Spanish holiday that suddenly careens into a rain-soaked nightmare. A family gathers for a wedding that is soon followed by an abduction, which in turn forces a lot of not-so-buried hostilities to the surface. Long before that point, the title has already sounded a vague note of alarm. What exactly does everybody know? A shameful piece of gossip that some guilty party thought they'd kept secret? Or could it be
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