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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    This ludicrously plotted drama of incestuous sexual abuse is only partially redeemed by its strong performances. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    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. Read full review

  • 38
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Trapped between edgy art flick and exploitation psychothriller, The Quiet manages to be neither, and manages to be pretty awful in the bargain. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Creepy, creepy, creepy -- and not in a good way. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    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. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | David Rooney

    A Lifetime movie on crack, The Quiet dredges up every lurid cliche from the well of teen hormonal havoc in a tale of dysfunctional family meltdown that seems unsure whether to push for suburban-Gothic psychosexual excess or tongue-in-cheek malevolence. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times |

    It never quite settles on whether it's a "Mean Girls" burlesque of teen life, an "American Beauty"-style bad-things-in-the-suburbs drama, or a wayward horror film. And it certainly never reconciles itself to successfully pulling off a hybrid of the three. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Too confused to provide any thrills, even indecent ones. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    The desperation TV stars must feel to be on the big screen is the only explanation for Edie Falco and Elisha Cuthbert's appearance in The Quiet, a creepy family drama that reeks of pretentiousness. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    This dank and rhythmless ''psychological'' potboiler was directed by Jamie Babbit, who made 2000's "But I'm a Cheerleader," and though she has shifted tones from shrill camp to moody angst in The Quiet, she still thinks in stereotypes so thin that they put you to sleep the moment they open their mouths. Read full review

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