I could actually feel my stomach churning and see my arms trembling as I held them over my face ... I was anticipating a lot of discomfort and hard-to-watch moments in Soft & Quiet, but this film exceeded even those expectations.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 5, 2024

The terrifying thing about this film is that it allows us to see how movements of destruction of others for ethnic reasons can emerge from unexpected places. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 30, 2024

All we're left with by the end of the film is anger, death, and, especially for racialized audiences, trauma. More significantly, and detrimentally as far as the movie-watching experience goes, we're left with nothing we didn't already know.

| Jul 12, 2024

Once Soft & Quiet leads the audience past the point of no return during a tour de force sequence set at an otherwise peaceful lake cabin, de Araújo enters the dark and suffocating territory...

| Mar 26, 2024

'Soft & Quiet' is intense, chilling, increasingly oppressive, and deeply uncomfortable, even though it keeps off-screen many of their most egregious actions. It's hard to watch. Maybe that's the point.

| Dec 15, 2023

Araújo clearly understands racism and white supremacy are extremely harmful towards people of colour. But the one question that lingers throughout the movie is, who is this movie for?

| Sep 8, 2023

The technical skill involved here is impressive, the themes are delivered with conviction, and the performances are astonishing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

Using a sharp one-shot technique, it exposes the United States of America, revealing a portrait of the American alt-right with a disconcerting, intense, and terrifying perspective that warrants forgiveness for its occasional sensationalism.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 19, 2023

Soft & Quiet isn’t fun to sit through, but it’s worth a watch if you want to understand the violence lurking beneath the surface of the Tradlife movement.

| May 31, 2023

The committed depiction of the characters’ moral malevolence forces you into submission. You’re made to feel complicit and the curtain-drop ending falls flat.

| May 18, 2023

It's not a movie one will easily forget. It's a drama-horror that reminds us that the people who seem like the most ordinary of citizens can be as horrific as hockey mask-wearing axe murderers, if not more so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2023

A Ku Klux Klan made up of affable smiles, wounded spirits, and perverse aggression. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 28, 2023

All at once, Soft & Quiet tackles racism, as well as the role many white women play in upholding white supremacy, and how white women use toxic masculinity to help patriarchy operate to its fullest, best extent.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 10, 2023

This thriller made to look like it was shot in one take will give you unpleasant flashbacks, because it’s so good at capturing that particular brand of resentment and entitlement...

| Mar 13, 2023

Beth de Araújo is a brave and bold new filmmaker and this feature debut is nothing short of stunning.

| Dec 29, 2022

Unfortunately, this devolves into watching trauma for trauma's sake without the redemptive arc of a comeuppance for the villains.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2022

From incredible performances to the tense long take that builds to an explosive finale, Soft & Quiet is a contender for the scariest movie of not just 2022, but of the 21st century.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 27, 2022

writer/director Beth de Araújo builds the momentum so well and the performances are so insidiously effective that it works despite its obviousness

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2022

This what-if miniature may strike some as a bit hyperbolic, but it cannily illustrates how people who think of themselves as upstanding citizens can whip themselves into a reactionary frenzy ...

| Nov 11, 2022

As a home invasion movie, it’s more Hate Crime than The Purge – loud, upsetting and genuinely difficult to watch. This is easily the most horrifying film of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2022