10 Awesome Recent Movies You Probably Missed

10. Silent Night

Though silent films haven't been the mainstream norm for the best part of a century, they've never gone away. Just look at Flow, which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar. With absolutely no dialogue, that film is essentially a silent movie. That one was a global success, but there is another recent quasi-silent film which sadly didn't get the attention it deserved: John Woo's Silent Night. 

Silent Night was the legendary action director's attempt to make an action film that's almost entirely devoid of spoken dialogue. The gimmick can be awkward - protagonist Brian (Joel Kinnaman) is mute after being shot in the throat, but it's not clear why no one else wants to speak. It's still a unique take on a revenge thriller, though, and one that really works. 

Thanks to Kinnaman's fantastic, underrated performance in the lead role and Woo's superb command of film language, Silent Night does a fantastic job of conveying the story through imagery and performance, making this a satisfying and unique piece of pure cinema. 

Furthermore, although this is a quieter work than most of Woo's films, it does still boast the fantastic action scenes you'd expect from this master of the action genre, and the final act is a blast. The indifferent critical response that this movie has received really is a shame. This movie has so much going for it, even if it's a long way from perfect.