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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 05 Jan 2017

The actors are steeped in the drama and mysticism of the moment, especially Garfield's stoic Rodrigues, who emerges as the central figure and…

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By Tal Rosenberg (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Jan 2017

The film can be ponderous in its rumination and ambiguity, but few cinematic treatments of Christianity and sanctity have been as generous…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jan 2017

A strange mix of sombre history lesson, artful religious questioning, and stomach-churning graphic violence, Silence is a movie as confounding…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for Indie London (156) on 05 Jan 2017

As intriguing and thought-provoking as Silence undoubtedly remains, it's very much a flawed piece of work that could well struggle to find…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 05 Jan 2017

Silence is Martin Scorsese's film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience will be sorely…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington City Paper (500) on 05 Jan 2017

No matter the depth or absence of one's faith, this is a film that tests our biases and stirs our feelings in uncommon, profound ways…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 05 Jan 2017

It's the type of film one submits to rather than watches, but if there's any living filmmaker I'd submit to, it's Scorsese…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 05 Jan 2017

The movie’s being promoted as the third in the director’s unofficial trilogy of faith, after “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988)…

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By Paul M (2,133) on 05 Jan 2017

DREADFULLY boring! Was really looking forward to this, but FOUR of us ended up walking out halfway through! Never done that before…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 05 Jan 2017

The movie eventually achieves a level of powerful drama…but only after dithering for more than an hour…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 05 Jan 2017

Scorsese’s adaptation is overlong and at times insufferably self-indulgent, but contains sublime moments of transcendent beauty and a wealth…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Jan 2017

The easiest thing you can say about Silence is that it's a labor of love, made by a valiant soldier for his chosen storytelling medium…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Jan 2017

The morale of [Scorsese's] story is ultimately both tough and nuanced…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 05 Jan 2017

For all that Silence is a gorgeous film filled with imagery that is sometimes startling and often compelling, the director sadly fails in a…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Jan 2017

Still, when you’re making a Christian epic and the best thing about it is the guy playing the inquisitor, you have a serious problem…

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By Calumrhys (16) on 05 Jan 2017

To this day, Martin Scorsese remains my all-time favourite director, a man whose approach to cinema completely differs to others in Hollywood,…

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By Mikel Zorrilla (231) for Espinof (390) on 04 Jan 2017

A very good film and I would even say that it's a must for any lover of the seventh art. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2017

Like most of Scorsese's oeuvre, Silence explores the link between physical suffering and spiritual conviction, but this time he seems willing…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for The ARTery (128) on 04 Jan 2017

A stark distillation of the themes Scorsese has been wrestling with on movie screens for over 40 years…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 04 Jan 2017

The few visual flourishes startle: most of the style is stripped, simplified, distilled in the contents of frames, in the duration of shots…

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