Film critic Peter Travers reviews "Speak No Evil" by James Watkins, starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy.

James Watkins adapts the Danish horror Speak No Evil, but snuffs the original’s sharp social commentary in the process.

James McAvoy goes all out crazy in "Speak No Evil," director James Watkins' remake of a 2022 Danish film. Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis also star.

Enjoyment, so to speak, of Christian Tafdrup’s bleak 2022 Danish horror movie Speak No Evil, a slow simmering cautionary tale of extreme passivity and poli...

James McAvoy gobbles the screen as an Englishman acting strangely toward his new American friends.

A remake of the 2022 Danish original, this psychological thriller gets by on its cast and filmmaker James Watkins’ one-wracked-nerve-at-a-time pacing.

The actor mesmerizes as an eccentric-scary farmhouse owner, but the movie’s protagonist couple behave far too cluelessly, even for a genre movie.

James McAvoy is so good in the Speak No Evil remake that only if you’ve seen the original will you feel like you’re being attacked.

James McAvoy hosts Scoot McNairy's family for a deeply uncomfortable getaway in James Watkins' horror remake. Read the Empire review.

Our verdict is in!

SPEAK NO EVIL (2024) is the American remake of the successful Danish horror film from 2022. A movie we gave a top rating. Full movie review >

Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis play the victims in a remake of the 2022 Danish horror movie about two families holed up in a remote farmhouse.

This is cleaner and less daring than the Danish original, but remains an incredibly disturbing treat all the same

Review: James McAvoy stars in James Watkins' unnecessary — and worse, unscary — remake of the 2022 Dutch-language shocker, 'Speak No Evil.'

This is a psychological thriller that lies in wait for its audience, slowly building the skin-prickling sense that something is terribly amiss

English-language remake of the European film features four first-rate performances, while the shift in nationalities adds other interesting angles

An unforgettably bleak Danish horror film from 2022 has gotten an inevitable Hollywood remake, one with a game cast but far less courage in the final stretch.

The 2024 remake of "Speak No Evil" does justice to the original when it comes to chills and thrills, and James McAvoy is terrifyingly captivating.

James McAvoy is a blast as the overly-friendly patriarch who invites unwitting tourists back to his west country stack for fun and games.

James McAvoy menaces in Blumhouse's bizarre remake.

Not since 2016's 'Split' has he been so convincingly terrifying

In this horror remake, James McAvoy plays an aggressively friendly British stranger who extends a dubious invitation to an American couple. Suckers!

‘An assault on the senses.’

There are a lot of teachable moments here, some of them involving homemade weapons.

The remake of “Speak No Evil” becomes a furious tour de force for James McAvoy at his most villainous, a bristling thriller that presents an unspeakable ...

A full-throttle performance from James McAvoy drives Blumhouse's remake of the 2022 Danish horror

The American remake of the shocking horror movie Speak No Evil ends up holding its own, finding new ways to engage with familiar material. Here's our review.

Horror remake Speak No Evil is a clever but nauseating frightener about the consequences of remaining silent in the face of rampant domestic abuse.

This is cleaner and less daring than the Danish original, but remains an incredibly disturbing treat all the same

The movie whose trailer has played nonstop for months now is finally here. Not only is it dull and predictable, it’s a travesty of a remake of a great Dani...

Director James Watkins’s adaptation of a 2022 Danish film takes a more conventional approach to producing a deep-seated sense of unease for audiences

Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy and Aisling Franciosi co-star in an intelligent and terrifying horror thriller

The English-language remake of Christian Tafdrup's breakthrough horror film drops all its art-house pretensions for an overplayed but engaging comedy.

The American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message.

The American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message.

A scintillating trio of performances do the heavy lifting in James Watkins' satisfying, sorely imperfect thriller.