Is Silent Friend worth watching in the UK?

Silent Friend (2026) has a Celluloid Score of 79%, averaged across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. It comes recommended overall. Directed by Ildikó Enyedi.

What is the Metascore for Silent Friend?

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

Silent Friend Review (2026) — 79% Score — UK

Item: Silent Friend
Rating: 4
Author: Dr. Amara Okonkwo

Silent Friend Review (2026) — 79% Celluloid Score

Directed by Ildikó Enyedi · 2026 · Last reviewed July 23, 2026

Answer Summary

Silent Friend (2026) earns a 79% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (92%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (70%).

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.

79%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Five-source breakdown

92% Critic Score

70% Audience

85 Metascore

★★★½☆ Letterboxd 3.8

7.3 IMDb /10

Why this score?

Strong critic approval (92% positive).

General viewers mostly liked it (70%).

Metascore signals universal acclaim (85/100).

Celluloid Score 79% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.

Best for

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

Not ideal for

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Yes — Silent Friend earns a 79% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

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 Critics Consensus

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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