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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Bordering on camp and loaded with lesbian undertones, this wretched drama plays like a high-school horror flick that trades monsters and mayhem for an overdose of force-fed cruelty. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Sheer punishment to watch. Read more
Hap Erstein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: In retrospect, it is Belle who manages to acquit herself best with a role that never quite makes sense, but affords her some expressive, silent sequences. Surely she will find other film work and then quietly drop The Quiet from her biography. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Approaches a serious subject with a portentousness that it hopes will be confused for art. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: 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. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The Quiet is in such bad taste that it's a shame the thriller doesn't make a better bad movie. Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: What should be a sustained mood piece instead flops around uncertainly, trading in understated strength for noisy diversion. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: 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. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Sometimes a movie is so repulsive and devoid of redeeming material that afterward, you're certain it doesn't deserve to exist. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [A] dank and rhythmless 'psychological' potboiler. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A drama that all but begs to have its earnestness called into question. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: An unnerving little psychological study that makes the most of the high-def aesthetic. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Thematically the movie never reaches beyond the ready-for-prime-time mentality that specializes in psychological shorthand. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Babbit's flair for menace and allure can't be dismissed; nor can the magnetism of Cuthbert and Belle. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: [Falls] back on angsty, adolescent cliches about how sick and shallow suburbia is. It may be, sometimes. But it's still not quite as sick and shallow as this. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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 more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: A creepy family drama that reeks of pretentiousness. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a complete fraud that never feels the least bit authentic in its efforts to titillate and shock. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: The exposition is so heavy-handed, the producers might just as well distribute a printed handout to hapless ticket buyers. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Rather than an indictment of depravity, the movie quickly becomes a particularly cynical example of it. Read more