The Silence has been reasonably well made by director John R. Leonetti. And he has assembled a surprisingly classy cast.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 11, 2024

The cult plot in The Silence is as poorly handled as nearly every other part of the film. With the exception of a great cast, headed by Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, and Miranda Otto, the film lacks any cohesion and feels almost unwatchable.

| Jul 9, 2024

The Silence is a painful attempt to remake A Quiet Place, which came out the year before. Though this is based on a 2015 novel of the same name, the story has already been done perfectly, leaving little to be desired in this straight-to-streaming flick.

| Jan 2, 2021

I thought the acting was quite good but... you saw everything and I felt like there was no mystery left in the film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 16, 2020

Somewhere deep beneath an underground cavern, something shockingly dreadful is accidentally unleashed upon the world: It's a near-unwatchable disaster of a Netflix horror movie called The Silence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The Silence is a dull affair that reads aloud from many pages in the Big Book of Horror Tropes...

| Original Score: C- | Jan 8, 2020

Rather than settling for following a successful formula, The Silence pushes the tried-and-true premise from its upsetting origins to its unthinkable limits.

| Dec 7, 2019

Filmmaker John R. Leonetti delivers a blisteringly-paced opening stretch that effectively establishes the cataclysmic scenario...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2019

The Silence feels like a cheap rip-off of better products.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 1, 2019

The Silence makes very little sense. But it's very entertaining, so you might as well just watch it so you can tweet about it.

| Jul 29, 2019

This "stay silent or die" end-of-the-world jam is less pretentious than John Krasinski's debut, which is good. It also trades Emily Blunt for Kiernan Shipka, which is not an even trade, even with rabid bat-dinosaurs thrown in to sweeten the deal.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 18, 2019

What should be the emotional core falls flat, with her story only vaguely alluded to and a lack of any meaningful progression in their relationship.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 30, 2019

Whether you're a horror fan who enjoys jump scares, gore, monsters, or a sharp social commentary, Netflix movie The Silence will satisfy none.

| May 13, 2019

The Silence doesn't manage to captivate its audience like it should, and it certainly doesn't bring anything new to its genre. Ultimately, the greatest thing it achieves is that it makes the viewer appreciate A Quiet Place even more.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 7, 2019

The estimable trio at the heart of the cast goes close to carrying the whole thing over the line, but it never feels as taut or kinetic as it needs to be.

| May 3, 2019

The Silence throws the taut brilliance of A Quiet Place into sharp relief, simply by doing everything wrong that the latter feature does right.

| Original Score: D+ | May 1, 2019

Suspenseful dystopian horror movie has violence, cursing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Not a knockoff of that other quiet horror flick, though this familiar monster movie works hard to convince otherwise. But the terrific cast makes it worth a look, at least for Netflix subscribers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 23, 2019

The Silence is worth a watch because of Tucci and Tucci alone, but if you crave a good film, just pick up a copy of A Quiet Place instead.

| Apr 23, 2019

The Silence is a thoroughly bad movie that will make you wish you were watching something else.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 16, 2019