What a story leaves out does as much work as what it says. This tag collects reviews and craft pieces on silence in film and fiction: the unspoken scene, the withheld line, the pause that lands.
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Ms. 45 (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Abel Ferrara made a rape-revenge film with a mute protagonist, almost no dialogue and a budget of around sixty thousand dollars, and Zoe Lund's performance is better than…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
Brokeback Mountain (2005) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two men herd sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963 and spend the next twenty years failing to have a life. Ang Lee won Best Director and the…
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Ordinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Paris, Texas (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man walks out of the desert after four years of silence and the film spends two hours working out why. The peep show scene at the end…
Reading LifeJuly 20, 2026
A silent book club is a group of people who meet in one room, read whatever they brought, and do not discuss it. No assigned title, no homework, no one pretending they finished. At least two Tampa Bay bookshops now…
2010sMay 19, 2026
John Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place is John Krasinski's 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a family surviving in rural silence to avoid…
1990sMay 19, 2026
An FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…
1990sMay 17, 2026
Kiarostami's 1997 Iranian drama. A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide.
1960sMay 17, 2026
Rosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
1970sMay 17, 2026
Eustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
1980sMay 16, 2026
Andrew Davis's 1985 Chicago cop thriller. Among the stronger Chuck Norris theatrical efforts.
1950sMay 15, 2026
Run Silent, Run Deep is one of the great American submarine films and one of the most accomplished collaborations between Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Robert Wise had been one of the most accomplished American directors of the previous two…
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