Film-makers Lau and Kentis seem to lose their collective mojo 20 minutes in and we're left watching a mostly dark screen and listening to a great deal of random panting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2012

It's still atmospheric enough, and like the original, has a quasi-theatrical event status. But it feels like a copy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

Olsen's brilliantly nervy and detailed performance deserved a flick that knew how to house it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2012

Ludicrous and offensive in equal measure. Avoid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 3, 2012

Filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau ('Open Water') should have plugged the original's plot holes and straightened out its logic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2012

An effective exercise in misdirection rather than a strikingly original vision, and now it's a remake of an effective exercise in misdirection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2012

Silent House is a vast improvement over the Uruguayan effort; that is undeniable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2012

The camera's unblinking eye constantly stays with Olsen, and we feel in as much danger as she is.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 9, 2012

One of those horror movies with no internal logic and camera tricks as ways to heighten tension instead of anything that feels remotely genuine. The trip through Silent House starts promisingly but you'll be running for the doors before it ends.

| Original Score: 2.0/5.0 | Mar 9, 2012

It's Olsen's performance that makes Sarah's plight matter. And the actress proves that her mesmerizing turn in last fall's Martha Marcy May Marlene -- about a woman on the lam from a cult -- wasn't a fluke.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2012

It's got some tense sequences, a few good scares, and it employs its central conceit rather ingeniously.

| Mar 9, 2012

Paranormal Activity has been here before, of course, but Silent House springs tangy new tricks, and Olsen is a primo scream queen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2012

Olsen is compelling even when the film isn't.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2012

The creeping presence of horror-flick hokum not only robs the scares of their strength, it shatters the realism that the single-take format is trying to convey.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2012

Demonstrating the limits of being too clever in a genre movie, the art-house chiller "Silent House" lets the tenseness of its first act trickle away.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 9, 2012

A scary, yet thoughtful - some might even say deep - art-house frightfest.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2012

Sometimes you don't want to know what is lurking in the dark because the answer is just too obvious and dumb.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2012

It's not hard to guess the source of her horror, and so the film's most interesting aspects are its gimmicks rather than its frights.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2012

Sarah does any number of silly things while scurrying through this not-so-silent house, but keeps the audience on her side; you want her to get out of the house immediately but you don't get annoyed with her when she can't.

| Mar 8, 2012

Even if Silent House had turned out as grimy, gory and stupid as much of its terrorplex ilk, the film would still be an achievement simply owing to its construction.

| Mar 8, 2012