|
Now Playing
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search
Upcoming Release Calendar
Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
75
Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
70
Black Balloon, The
49
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
51
Breakfast with Scot
33
Caller, The
44
Chandni Chowk to China
63
Changeling
64
Che
57
Cherry Blossoms
94
Class, The
58
Defiance
xx
Delhi 6
43
Donkey Punch
55
Eleven Minutes
44
Fanboys
69
Fear(s) of the Dark
80
Frost/Nixon
83
Gomorrah
40
Good
84
Happy-Go-Lucky
21
House of the Sleeping Beauties
50
How About You
79
I've Loved You So Long
69
Just Another Love Story
77
Katyn
57
Last Chance Harvey
82
Let the Right One In
17
Lodger, The
58
Luck by Chance
63
Medicine for Melancholy
25
Memorial Day
71
Must Read After My Death
43
Not Easily Broken
xx
Objective, The
81
Of Time and the City
34
Otto; or Up with Dead People
78
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
82
Rachel Getting Married
58
Reader, The
79
Serbis
49
Shadows
75
Silent Light
86
Slumdog Millionaire
82
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
67
Synecdoche, New York
72
Two Lovers
83
U2 3D
xx
Velveteen Rabbit, The
90
Waltz with Bashir
81
Wendy and Lucy
81
Wrestler, The
94
Class, The
90
Waltz with Bashir
86
Slumdog Millionaire
84
Happy-Go-Lucky
83
Gomorrah
83
U2 3D
82
Rachel Getting Married
82
Let the Right One In
82
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
81
Wrestler, The
81
Of Time and the City
81
Wendy and Lucy
80
Frost/Nixon
79
I've Loved You So Long
79
Serbis
78
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
77
Katyn
75
Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
75
Silent Light
72
Two Lovers
71
Must Read After My Death
70
Black Balloon, The
69
Just Another Love Story
69
Fear(s) of the Dark
67
Synecdoche, New York
64
Che
63
Medicine for Melancholy
63
Changeling
58
Luck by Chance
58
Reader, The
58
Defiance
57
Cherry Blossoms
57
Last Chance Harvey
55
Eleven Minutes
51
Breakfast with Scot
50
How About You
49
Shadows
49
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
44
Fanboys
44
Chandni Chowk to China
43
Not Easily Broken
43
Donkey Punch
40
Good
34
Otto; or Up with Dead People
33
Caller, The
25
Memorial Day
21
House of the Sleeping Beauties
17
Lodger, The
xx
Delhi 6
xx
Objective, The
xx
Velveteen Rabbit, The
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
|
Silent Light
Palisades Pictures, Tartan
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Cornelio Wall,
Maria Pankratz,
Miriam Toews,
and
Peter Wall
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and man, Johan falls in love with another woman. (Bac Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Carlos Reygadas
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Carlos Reygadas
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: January 7, 2009
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico | France | Netherlands | Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Low German | Spanish | French | English |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
At bottom, Silent Light is less about faith than matters of the heart, and in Reygadas' hands, the ache is bone-deep.
90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The results are extraordinary. As understated as it is, the movie is both deeply absurd and powerfully affecting.
90
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The film was written, directed and somehow willed into unlikely existence by the extravagantly talented Carlos Reygadas, whose immersion in this exotic world feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith.
88
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
As is his custom, Reygadas uses a mostly nonprofessional cast; and, as expected, he draws remarkably realistic performances.
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Much of what happens in Silent Light can feel painstakingly mundane: milking cows, harvesting wheat, a long drive at night in and out of shadows. Yet throughout, there's a sense of something ominous impending, and while it remains gentle, the ending is genuinely startling.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Reygadas has hitched his austere and protracted style to an allegorical tale of subtle strength and depth.
70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's amazingly beautiful and it tests your patience; both things are par for the course with Reygadas, After that, you've either surrendered to his idiosyncratic sense of rhythm, or you're out of there.
50
Variety
Scott Foundas
Reygadas' typically arresting widescreen visuals and the presence of non-pro actors speaking in German-derived Plautdietsch makes for an initially hypnotic combination, but the spell breaks its hold well before the end of the picture's inflated running time, signaling an endurance test for all but the most ascetic arthouse auds.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The stab at sublimity-by-proxy doesn't take.
40
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
This director is too calculating to hold our trust for long, and skepticism will kill transcendence every time.
 The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 26 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Discuss this movie in our forums |
|
