While the film tells some more or less interesting stories about some more or less interesting people, it fails to capture its audience. Despite the cast of excellent actresses and the good performances, the viewer remains at a distance and you cannot help feeling like the scientist who views a bunch of ants under the looking glass...In addition, the Director, who also wrote the script, does not develop an interesting visual style for the film - it seems as if the dialog and the performances were enough in the Director's view to make a good movie - well, they are not. I have seen this as a German DVD edition and I'm not sure whether the transfer was very bad or whether the film was intended to look the way it did - quite often the top part of the frame is darker than the rest, usually in a way so that the actors' faces are lit normally, while the background fades away horizontally (not vertically, though). Quite irritating, in my view.Overall, stays well behind its potential. (3/10)

The only other movie I've ever been moved to write a comment for was Mission to Mars. Unlike MtM, which I was moved to review due to it being one of the very worst movies I've ever seen, this one is truly touching. Things You Can Tell... is a testimony that an American movie, with well-known American actors, can be delicate, beautifully acted, and most of all, not chewed and explained to death. It does not regard its viewers as braindead; neither does it regard them as artsy. It is a movie for everyone, about people just like us.This is not an art-house movie - the story plot is a collection of stories about the everyday lives of everyday women (the reviewer who said she never seen such repulsive characters might be in for a shock if she actually talks to her daughter / mother / sister).It shows women beautifully, and absolutely believably. It also shows nicely that diversity is not a question of the skin color, but of the attitude (hence the stories feature only white women).It's also not a chick flick - while certainly it will be loved by women, it also works for cynical, hard to move guys like me.Watch it, it's really good, in a not-in-your-face, subtle way.

This was a touching film that dealt with a few womens lives. I thought the acting in the film was great. The film kept me interested most of the time. I wanted to see how everything turned out for all of them. I would watch this again sometime. I'm pretty sure I missed a few things.

I was pleasantly surprised to watch this film and actually FEEL for a woman who steals from her sleeping mother, a woman who has casual affairs with "nice" guys, a flaky tarot card reading lesbian, an annoying over-attentive mom, and an impossibly gorgeous blind woman who has a better sex life than her beautiful sighted sister. These are portrayals of woman in various stages of longing. It is a very real concept since everyone longs for something...whether it be money, love, a new life. I was compelled to comment on this film because I read many negative comments of people who said it was slow. I was also offended by one person who watched HALF of the movie and gave away spoilers that were only HALF correct. Real life isn't like the Die Hard movies or Pretty Woman or some flick you watch in order to escape your own existence. I am glad that someone made a film that captures (somewhat) the essence of indecision, insecurity, and inconsistent behavior that is REAL in everyone's life. I recommend it to anyone and hope they would watch the whole thing before broadcasting an "informed" opinion.