A work about memory and loss, His Secret Life becomes a forum of Antonia's liberation of consciousness and feeling, but there are too many contradictory moods sharing the same space, resulting in a tentativeness and uncertainty.
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A movie that grows better by the minute.
80
VarietyDavid Rooney
VarietyDavid Rooney
The well-structured film goes beyond issues of sexuality, giving nuanced consideration to broader questions of love and loss, family and friendship, trust, lies and deception.
His Secret Life's languid pace and general aimlessness keep getting in the way.
70
Village Voice
Village Voice
It's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives Secret Life its intermittent unease, reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality, and that erasing them recasts the self. And it's this existential gerrymandering that's most compelling.
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Solid and engrossing melodrama.
63
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Even the graceful ending, one that lifts the film a notch, is startling. But at the very least, His Secret Life will leave you thinking.