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Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times: There may be no young actress today better at embodying a blend of wounded innocence and stoic pride than Sarah Polley. In The Secret Life of Words, she has a part worthy of her gifts. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Can a single scene save a movie? An hour and 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Words, Sarah Polley delivers a halting, evocative 10-minute monologue that finally unlocks the mystery behind her guarded character. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: What pleasure there is to be wrung from the exceptionally banal The Secret Life of Words lies in the harsh, unforgiving beauty (lyrically shot by Jean-Claude Larrieu) and wonderfully strange social life of the isolated rig. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The Secret Life of Words transcends the limitations of its pat two-character-play core, becoming a deeply affecting existential drama about the healing power of communally felt pain. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Given the physical limitations of their characters, Polley and Robbins give remarkably compelling performances, and though the resolution of their slowly evolving relationship is a bit too pat, it is one you won't soon forget. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A tantalizing and beautiful picture made with tremendous integrity, and anchored by two marvelous performances, Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words still, somehow, doesn't quite work. Read more
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: A frustrating film full of many wonderful parts that the filmmaker ultimately betrays. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Polley not only speaks volumes with her wary, hooded eyes and closed body language, she provides the silent emotion anchor the movie badly needs. Read more
Jonathan Holland, Variety: Sarah Polley gives a wonderfully searching performance, as a woman in a state of extreme isolation. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: In due course skeletons will march out of closets, but the movie yields up its secrets with slow reluctance. Read more