The Silent Twins
Focus Features | Release Date: September 16, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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60
EmpireAmon WarmannDec 12, 2022
Some wonderful visual flourishes and two brilliant central performances by Wright and Lawrence help to illuminate the Gibbons sisters’ headspaces. But without important context, true insight and understanding remains elusive. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBeandrea JulySep 15, 2022
Whatever is or isn’t broken about the twins remains a secret, but June and Jennifer’s story is played by Wright and Lawrance with the thoughtful consideration these real-life women deserve. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossSep 14, 2022
As a visual offering, The Silent Twins has moments of sheer, raw imaginativeness. As a worthy study of the two central characters, sadly, it lacks the same level of vision. Read full review
50
Little White LiesHannah StrongDec 10, 2022
Despite its noble intentions, The Silent Twins is a broad-brush depiction of the Gibbons sisters’ lives, one that fails to represent the institutional racism and discrimination which had a profoundly damaging effect on them and quite possibly led to Jennifer’s death. Read full review
50
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonSep 16, 2022
The acting, from both Black Panther's Letitia Wright as June and Tamara Lawrance as Jennifer, is a particular standout. Their commitment to delivering intriguing performances as troubled twins elevates this weak script and enables viewers to become fixated on what was happening to them. Read full review
50
TheWrapSep 15, 2022
It’s undoubted that the Gibbons twins were both original thinkers who were victimized by a system that did not recognize them as autonomous people, but it’s unfortunate that The Silent Twins is keen to do the same, reducing them to vehicles for aesthetic flexing and moral lecturing, rather than, as they themselves would have requested, simply letting them be. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 15, 2022
That’s the ultimate dividedness of “The Silent Twins.” What feels most fresh and true in it is, literally, imaginary, June and Jennifer’s flights of fancy. What feels most leaden and movie-phony is based on fact. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDavid RobbSep 14, 2022
Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s film is unwilling to really sit with the peculiarity of its protagonists’ unique psyches. Read full review
50
IndieWireAdam SolomonsSep 14, 2022
It’s a shame that telling the Gibbons’ true story is a task too difficult for The Silent Twins, because there are real signs of promise. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 14, 2022
However intrinsically fascinating the Gibbons sisters’ story might be, Smoczynska and Seigel’s interpretation of the material feels off somehow — a little too pleased with its own quirk, and too preoccupied with surface texture and color to help viewers truly understand its troubled protagonists. Read full review
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