The Quiet
User Score
8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 51
  3. Negative: 8 out of 51

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  1. [Anonymous]
    Sep 3, 2006
    3
    tried way too hard & just missed the mark, in my opinion. I kept checking my watch.

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Metascore
29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 24 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 24
  3. Negative: 16 out of 24
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    30
    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.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    40
    Thematically the movie never reaches beyond the ready-for-prime-time mentality that specializes in psychological shorthand.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    50
    The few effective scenes in The Quiet suggest that the film might have worked as a kinked-up Hitchcockian thriller rather than the drab, serious drama it turns out to be.
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