Aside from its technical accomplishments, it's a film that piques the viewer's interest yet ends just as it starts to hint at more beneath its premise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2022

In an age where so many things are overdone, overblown and overwrought, it's nice to have such a simple, quiet movie about a totally relatable and universal human experience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2020

The uniquely intellectual drama runs with a soulfully promising story as far as it can go before getting backed into a corner by a director who doesn't know how to handle it.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2019

I can't recall seeing anything last year that approaches its canny psychological clout.

| Oct 2, 2019

Like the sound of the tuning forks Peter uses, the drama in The Sound of Silence starts strong and then fades out.

| Sep 27, 2019

For two thirds of its running time The Sound of Silence tracks pretty well. But then the whole thing goes haywire, dipping into material that makes no sense thematically, emotionally or intellectually.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 26, 2019

There's an unintentional irony that a film so sympathetic to sound, from the flapping of birds' wings to the clomping of horse hooves, would treat light with such casual disregard, but it reflects Peter's dilemma.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2019

Thanks in major part to the alternately witty and touching script and Sarsgaard's exceptional performance, Tyburski's refined exercise in sight and sound manipulation should find an appreciative audience, though perhaps a small one.

| Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2019

The Sound of Silence is a thoughtful film, though; Sarsgaard is convincingly enigmatic, and observe how good Jones is in this mode, in which her mirth is restrained to a bare minimum.

| Sep 26, 2019

A movie built for Sarsgaard's specific way of acting, and he's strong here, presenting Tyburski with a subtle range of feelings to best support the modest but human goals of the feature.

| Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2019

It is stunted and meandering, barely filling out its 85 minutes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 26, 2019

While not quite a complete experience that sticks the landing, The Sound of Silence is nevertheless an impressive debut from a fresh new filmmaker.

| Original Score: 6.0/10 | Sep 25, 2019

There are beautiful qualities at work here, making for a sometimes poignant and harmonious film about the nature of sound and humanity.

| Sep 25, 2019

The result is a maudlin, tedious indie flick that's nowhere tongue-in-cheek enough to make up for its inherently ridiculous set-up.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 21, 2019

..."The Sound of Silence" is a modest, contemplative study of ideas that itself exemplifies those ideas in its design, not least its sound design; it embodies a conceptual rumination.

| Sep 20, 2019

A major co-star is the sound design, which, fittingly enough, tends to sound like a comforting blanket of white noise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2019

Lucian is a man with a theory, desperate to extrapolate from what he knows is true to what it might imply, and if you've ever known such a man, you will likely appreciate Sarsgaard's performance

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2019

Despite a pair of strong performance and one of the year's most unique high-concept ideas, The Sound of Silence fails to resonate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2019

This is based on a short film and I wonder if it would have worked better as a short film, because it does feel very stretched out and elongated beyond what the central premise can sustain.

| Sep 16, 2019

Our environment reflects us, which includes the soundscapes we live in. Food for thought.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2019