Here A Quiet Place thrilled by presenting a fleshed out family under a precise and horrifying threat, The Silence is satisfied to just plop down barely sketched characters then throw them into The Birds but more violent. That doesn't make it satisfying. There's just nothing special to be found in The Silence.
The Silence
Germany, United States · 2019
Rated PG-13 · 1h 31m
Director John R. Leonetti
Starring Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, John Corbett
Genre Horror, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
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The Story of a family struggling to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who have bred for decades in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system, hunting only with their acute hearing. As the family seeks refuge in a remote haven where they can wait out the invasion, they start to wonder what kind of world will remain when they're ready to emerge.
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RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
A dull retread of ideas explored more interestingly in other films and TV shows. Even the always-welcome Stanley Tucci can’t add any flair to a movie that feels so much like a relative of John Krasinski’s 2018 smash hit that one has to wonder if Netflix didn’t try to convince the producers to rename it “A Quiet Paradox.”
The Guardian by Charles Bramesco
This is the most insidious type of knockoff: the one that sincerely expects you to believe that it’s the real thing. Leave it to Netflix to take the fun out of incompetence.
The New York Times by Scott Tobias
The Silence posits a grand evolutionary struggle between mankind and its winged tormentors, but every moment feels like regression.
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