...a solid thriller that benefits from Coster-Waldau’s stirring (and sympathetic) performance and a compelling, surprising narrative...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2023

The Silencing is an underseen, underrated film that knows why its tropes work and stick to its guns.

| Nov 12, 2022

Well made but essentially dull crime drama: nothing we haven't seen before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2021

Ultimately, The Silencing doesn't say anything much at all.

| Jan 11, 2021

This movie forgets that the character stuff is the side dish, not the main course, and serves an insultingly under-prepared crime procedural.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2020

It's desperately dull and predictable - down to the boring reveal at the end. It does moody and atmospheric well, but that will only take you so far. Ultimately, it's too muted for its own good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2020

The Silencing is one of those serial killer sagas that's not so much about what it is telling you, but how it is telling you. And that's where it makes quite a killing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2020

Lacks logic.

| Original Score: C | Aug 24, 2020

The murder mystery is underwhelming, full of awkward misdirection and characters making idiotic decisions for the sake of plot expediency.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 18, 2020

There was something Karin Slaughter-ish about this film. That alone was enough to hold my interest.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 18, 2020

A good cast and first-rate cinematography by Manuel Dacosse help, but the storyline falls flat and the film becomes a frivolous mess.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2020

After a promising first act, it starts to get lost in a muddy plot. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 17, 2020

A pair of fine performances from its lead actors makes the over churned narrative a bit more palatable, but the script from first time scribe Micah Ranum feels as overstuffed as it is derivative.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 17, 2020

The Silencing concludes with a fizzle more than the required jolt.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2020

A film with a lot of wasted potential, The Silencing is a serial killer thriller which is nothing to shout about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2020

Far-fetched contrivances overshadow much of the suspense in this formulaic thriller that at least features some pleasant forest scenery.

| Aug 14, 2020

Wintry and woodsy, this small-scale thriller is closer to a decent episode of The Killing than The Silence of the Lambs. But it works due to the interestingly flawed characters and fine performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2020

The Silencing is a decently exhilarating thriller movie, even if the twists in the story aren't always well-earned or well thought out.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 14, 2020

One does feel one's seen all this before.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2020

In this stale thriller, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays a alcoholic hunter who tries to catch a serial killer of teen girls. Even in these troubled times, when we all hunger for escapism, this long journey to a lame ending hardly fills the bill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2020