The Quiet: Critic Reviews

75%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

22%

RottenTomatoes: 98 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

[A] dank and rhythmless 'psychological' potboiler.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

30

Neither ambitious enough to take seriously nor sleazy enough to enjoy, The Quiet flirts with the trappings of exploitation cinema without going all the way.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Rather than an indictment of depravity, the movie quickly becomes a particularly cynical example of it.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

The Quiet is in such bad taste that it's a shame the thriller doesn't make a better bad movie.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

38

A screamingly bad melodrama whose message seems to be that people who think they're talking to a deaf person admit things they wouldn't admit to themselves. Silence, please.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

38

The film's focus shouldn't be Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf, mute and orphaned teen. It should be her new family of suburbanites sliding into hell.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

An unnerving little psychological study that makes the most of the high-def aesthetic.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

0

Sometimes a movie is so repulsive and devoid of redeeming material that afterward, you're certain it doesn't deserve to exist.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

38

It's a complete fraud that never feels the least bit authentic in its efforts to titillate and shock.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

25

Sheer punishment to watch.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Full Review » 6 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

38

Trapped between edgy art flick and exploitation psychothriller, The Quiet manages to be neither, and manages to be pretty awful in the bargain.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

38

The stupider things get, the more seriously it takes itself -- and the more seriously it takes itself, the funnier it is.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

The director combines an angst-ridden look at suburban perversions with a teen titillation comedy, and the final product often comes off as pretentious, crass and overwrought.
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Rooney Variety (Top Critic)

A Lifetime movie on crack.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

A repugnant little indie black comedy, poorly acted in hideous-looking digital video, guaranteed to send audiences fleeing for the nearest shower.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

An occasionally compelling, dark and sometimes darkly funny movie draws us in but doesn't really pay off. And any teenager knows what that describes -- a tease.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

38

The exposition is so heavy-handed, the producers might just as well distribute a printed handout to hapless ticket buyers.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

Characters already too wicked to be credible start doing stuff simply too stupid to be believed, with no help from a cast way too overmatched to be useful.
Full Review » 6 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A serious subject, handled in an exploitive and pretentiously arty fashion.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

What should be a sustained mood piece instead flops around uncertainly, trading in understated strength for noisy diversion.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Justine Elias Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Marder Hollywood.com

20

Full Review » 4 years ago