Movie Review

The Quiet (2006)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Aug 23, 2006

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Aug 25, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 92 Minutes; Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery; With: Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert

$SOUND OF NO HANDS CLAPPING Cuthbert (left) and Belle won\'t get any shout-outs for The Quiet$

Image credit: The Quiet: Ari Briskman

SOUND OF NO HANDS CLAPPING Cuthbert (left) and Belle won't get any shout-outs for The Quiet

This dank and rhythmless ''psychological'' potboiler was directed by Jamie Babbit, who made 2000's But I'm a Cheerleader, and though she has shifted tones from shrill camp to moody angst in The Quiet, she still thinks in stereotypes so thin that they put you to sleep the moment they open their mouths. Elisha Cuthbert, who's trying to be the Meryl Streep of Maxim bimbos, is the bitchy and privately troubled daddy's-girl cheerleader, and Camilla Belle is the shrinking-violet deaf girl who stays with Cuthbert's family and learns its dark (yawn) secret.

Originally posted Aug 23, 2006 Published in issue #894 Sep 01, 2006 Order article reprints

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