"Mute Witness has a keen sense of geography, and the camera movement is choreographed against the positions of the actors to sustain a remarkable cinematic tension. Sudina has a keen sense of her character, too, playing Billy as determined but terrified, smart but vulnerable. Her performance, along with Waller's sure, straightforward direction, render some of the script's more obvious implausibilities irrelevant in favor of sharp audience identification with Billy. And when the veracity of what she saw is called into question -- was the 'murder' she witnessed really just a clever special effect? -- the audience, too, is forced to reconsider its own experience of the murder on screen." - Bryant Frazer, Deep Focus