Laughable psychodrama.

| Jun 23, 2022

While The Quiet is overly stylized at times in an attempt to create an ominous mood, the set design and lighting are no more than minor distractions from the rather unsettling tale that unfolds.

| May 25, 2022

Nothing this salacious should be this boring.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The Quiet may be a mess, but it's an exceedingly entertaining one, with a host of fine actors keeping their characters on as tight a leash as a film heading for this particular kind of crash landing allows.

| May 12, 2020

A hilariously bad and utterly ridiculous piece of melodrama touted as a thriller.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The fatalistic woe becomes an indie film mockery. It's truly adolescent.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

Illustrate[s], once and for all, that it's possible for a film to be soooo slow and ponderous it can appear, at times, to come to a dead stop.

| Mar 1, 2007

What on the surface initially seems like your typical bitchy blonde-versus-ostracized newcomer teensploit is merely this taut psychological thriller's point of departure for the exploration of a more sobering set of circumstances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 10, 2007

The film's producers would like us to keep this quiet... this is supposed to be a thriller, but the only time we were thrilled was when it was over.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2006

Starts with an overwritten voice-over and ends with events so baffling as to seem satirical.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 9, 2006

The Quiet is the kind of bad filmmaking that makes me lament that I blew a couple of hours of my life seeing it.

| Original Score: D- | Oct 1, 2006

The next "American Beauty". The film expunges every inch of emotion from its actors shells - particularly marvellous newcomer Camilla Belle, last seen in the "When A Stranger Calls" remake, and former "24" cutie Elisha Cuthbert, whose never been better"

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2006

In retrospect, it is Belle who manages to acquit herself best with a role that never quite makes sense, but affords her some expressive, silent sequences. Surely she will find other film work and then quietly drop The Quiet from her biography.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 23, 2006

Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2006

Yet more self-conscious schlock masquerading as a thoughtful effort, The Quiet thinks it out-Heathers all the Mean Girls but really just ends up whimpering in the dark.

| Sep 16, 2006

Pretentious and pointless -- take a pass.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 16, 2006

An uneven satire/black comedy that lurches from serious drama to black comedy and back again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2006

One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2006