Don’t let the ‘foreign language’ aspect of “The Secret in Their Eyes”; keep you from an engaging and powerful mystery! It’s in Spanish with English subtitles.

The story, set in 1999, unfolds in a series of flashbacks starting in June of 1974. Federal justice agent Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) in Argentina has serious doubts during the investigation of a young woman who’s brutally raped and murdered in her home in a Buenos Aires neighborhood. His assistant is a ‘closet’ alcoholic who simply wants to have the case end so that his life can go back to the simple every day pace of police work. His assistant sees an easy way to put the case to rest when a newcomer and upper class lawyer (Soledad Villamil) takes over as department head...