Torture porn

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2017)

What is it about Catholics and torture porn?
The graphic violence wasn't as unrelenting as Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, but Silence also lacked that movie's pace, and its surprising, even striking, cinematic creativity with a well-known story.
It was at least half an hour too long, and I am at a loss to explain its high rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc, except by noting that most of the critics sampled come from the good ole USA, home to some pretty sadomasochistic approaches to religion.