The Danish Speak No Evil (2022) smartly utilizes dark social satire to slowly, quietly submerge viewers into genuinely disturbing horror.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Speak No Evil rips apart the false sense of security that people have when they think strangers are instant friends. The horror in this thriller isn’t delivered until the movie’s last third, but it packs a very bleak wallop.

| Sep 14, 2024

Speak No Evil is an excruciating watch, and one worth surrendering ourselves to. A provocative satire of middle-class sensibilities, it forces its audience to look inwards in a way hitherto unexplored.

| Aug 9, 2024

Rather than invading the victim’s home, Tafdrup’s film turns the house into an invader itself, displacing the victims into a state of constant discomfort only amplified by the consistent invasion of their personal boundaries.

| Aug 4, 2024

Speak No Evil is artfully crafted with the intent for its viewers to have an unpleasant experience. That intention was fulfilled, and my experience was, in fact, unpleasant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2024

It builds tension and horror from its opening minutes. Christian Tafdrup, needs nothing more than a highly indicative soundtrack and a montage sequence to let us know everything that will happen in less than five minutes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 19, 2023

Had the movie not unraveled the way it did, Speak No Evil could have solidified itself as one of the great low-budget horror flicks. The first half still belongs in that category, but the ending needed something more to elevate the themes of parenthood.

| Jul 24, 2023

Speak No Evil is exhaustingly tense with desperate performances enduring cerebrally hellish behavior. Christian and Mads Tafdrup know how to drive the audience to the brink of insanity while throwing off the scent of foreseeable expectations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2023

The filmmakers have us wondering if our protagonists are actually making matters worse themselves. We're so quick to forgive and forget that a monster blaming us for their actions isn't wholly wrong.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 13, 2023

This is a slow-building, relentlessly threatening piece of horror.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 5, 2023

Speak No Evil is a deeply disturbing interrogation of human relationships and social niceties. It’s terrifying and merciless, and if you can stomach it, one of the most exhilarating cinematic experiences of the year.

| Dec 27, 2022

As a change of pace from the Sundance norm, Speak No Evil gets the job done, buoyed in part by the novel cultural politics of its Western European faceoff.

| Nov 22, 2022

What makes this so effective isn't just the violence, but the sense that we're complicit through our own moral cowardice, that title both a teaser and a rebuke.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 13, 2022

A malevolent satire about the Nordic tradition of taking good manners to the max, with a nihilistic undertone... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2022

Speak No Evil experiments with its setting and impressively shows the inactivity, almost inability, of its characters to defend themselves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2022

Speak No Evil is a dark journey well worth the cost of admission.

| Oct 9, 2022

...a slow-burn thriller that grows more and more compelling as it unfolds...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2022

A Type B nightmare come slowly yet ferociously to life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2022

Disseminating helplessness and dread in the last minutes... this dismal film will teach you to never trust strangers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2022

'Speak No Evil' certainly takes its time to show you the horrible lesson beneath the smiles, but will have you yelling at the screen, imploring the leading players to act.

| Sep 26, 2022