What is the Metascore for Silent Friend?

Silent Friend has a Metascore of 85 out of 100 on Celluloid.

Drama Berlinale 2026

Silent Friend Review (2026) — 82% Celluloid Score

Item: Silent Friend
Rating: 4
Author: Kaiser Khan

Directed by Ildikó Enyedi · 2026 · Last reviewed August 31, 2026

Answer Summary

Silent Friend (2026) earns a 82% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (92%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (70%).

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Calculated from 4 available inputs: Celluloid editorial rating, Metascore, Letterboxd and IMDb. Audience sentiment is shown separately and never changes the composite. See how we calculate scores.

82%

Celluloid Score Recommended

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92% Editorial Rating

70% Audience snapshot · excluded

85 Metascore

★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.8

7.3 IMDb /10

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Runtime: 2h 0m
Cast: Tony Leung , Léa Seydoux , Luna Wedler
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian

Official theatrical poster for Silent Friend (2026)

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Why this score?

Celluloid's editorial rating is exceptional (92/100).
General viewers mostly liked it (70%).
Metascore signals universal acclaim (85/100).
Celluloid Score 82% combines 4 verified rating inputs; audience sentiment is shown separately.

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Viewers who want a well-regarded drama pick
Critics' darlings — stronger with reviewers than general viewers

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Is Silent Friend worth watching?

Yes — Silent Friend earns a 82% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Celluloid Verdict

Ildikó Enyedi's Hungarian mosaic earned 92% critics and Metacritic midyear attention — Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux, and Luna Wedler anchor a patient drama that Variety praised as the year's most meditative European theatrical.
Celluloid editorial verdict

Critics (92%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (70%).

What is Silent Friend about?

Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale-premiered drama follows intersecting lives bound by silence, memory, and the spaces between words — anchored by Tony Leung alongside Léa Seydoux and Luna Wedler in a patient Hungarian mosaic. Enyedi, whose On Body and Soul won the Golden Bear, films with uncanny tenderness, letting gesture and withheld speech carry as much weight as dialogue. The result is meditative European cinema that Variety praised as the year's most rapturous Hungarian theatrical — not a plot machine, but an experience that rewards attention.

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Critic Reviews

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Silent Friend Review: Ildikó Enyedi's Hungarian Mosaic Is 92% Pure Cinema

★★★★☆ 4/5

Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux, and Luna Wedler anchor Enyedi's Berlinale drama — 92% critics, Metascore 85, and Hungary's most meditative 2026 theatrical.

Essential European cinema on Best of 2026 — Hungary's answer to the year's louder revenge hits.

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