o what is this film actually about? If there is an actor who can persuade me that stamping on an image of Christ is a moment of thrilling drama, it is not Garfield. The overall effect of the costumes, the cacophony of terrible accents, the Wishee Washee laundry extras scuttling out of the undergrowth and the peerlessly unfrightening Japanese persecutors is one of a Sunday-school film created by a niche Christian production company from somewhere in Oregon. It is Scorsese at his most sentimental and his weakest. Halfway into its interminable 161 minutes, I realised that Silence stood for something else as well: the silence of fans and critics, or anyone who might say what a flimsy, tokenistic, ego-driven brainfart it is. - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/camilla-long-on-film-silence-and-rogue-one-jvpr7zj23