The Silence

2006

1h 44m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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50%

6 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

250+ Ratings

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Photographs of a murdered woman (Ellouise Rothwell) from the 1960s prompts a cop (Richard Roxburgh) to reopen the case.

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Mike J

Don't waste your life watching movies especially ones like these

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/28/22

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joe m

"The Silence" is about a detective re-assigned for killing in the line of duty. His new job is curator of the police museum. There he becomes obsessed with a woman in an old crime scene photo and proceeds to investigate what happened to her. The movie starts out engaging, but then it quickly turns into a muddled mess. Should you bother to see it all the way through, "The Silence" may will leave you scratching your head and saying WTF. Even for those plot elements that you can make some sense out of, I found it annoying how none of them followed any train of logic. Instead, all of the clues are conveniently dropped in to place to wrap up the story. Give it a pass.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

ALMOST PAINFUL... to sit through this movie without falling asleep. The pieces do fall into place but they are so few and obscure that the storyline never really takes off. It's like sitting in an airplane waiting circling the runway for an hour and a half only to be told when the movie is over that one can now get off the plane

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

It's not a bad film, but it is less than enthralling. I found the plot to be an interesting concept, but the execution of the story lacked spark and it was not easy staying focused on the film. It's well enough made, just bland. In RT twice.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

This Australian TV drama is pretty good. They should have made it as a movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

Roxburgh gives a fantastic performance, but the pseudo-arty direction didn't deliver the tension the story needed.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Cate Shortland

Director

Richard Roxburgh

Richard Treloar

Essie Davis

Juliet Moore

Alice McConnell

Helen Wilson

Emily Barclay

Evelyn Hutchison

Ellouise Rothwell

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Robin Oliver

Sydney Morning Herald

If it's scruff we're after, then production designer Melinda Doring obliges with compellingly old-fashioned interiors, occupied by gnarled narks and retirees.

Feb 28, 2018

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Leslie Felperin

Variety

Given that underwhelming police thriller The Silence is technically a made-for-TV movie, it might not be counted against helmer Cate Shortland as yet another example of the dreaded disappointing sophomore follow-up.

Sep 25, 2006

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Globe and Mail

Stylish, sexy and deeply emotionally resonant.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 23, 2006

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...an egregiously slow-paced piece of work that works neither as a character study nor as a police procedural...

Rated: 2/4

Jan 15, 2010

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Jon Popick

Planet S Magazine

Nice, but nothing remarkable.

Sep 14, 2006

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Synopsis

Photographs of a murdered woman (Ellouise Rothwell) from the 1960s prompts a cop (Richard Roxburgh) to reopen the case.

Director: Cate Shortland
Producer: Scott Meek, Miranda Dear
Screenwriter: Alice Addison, Mary Walsh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Runtime: 1h 44m

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