Review of Silence (2016) by Richard Roeper for Chicago Sun-Times — 05 Jan 2017

What beauty. What brutality. What madness.

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This review of Silence (2016) was written by Richard Roeper and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 05 Jan 2017.

Silence has generally received positive reviews.

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