<em>By Stephanie Merry, The Washington Post For an Oscar contender, “Silence” is still remarkably mysterious. Is Martin Scorsese’s decades-in-the-making passion project any good? We don’t know, because it’s only now screening for critics, and even then only in Los Angeles and New York. In the meantime, we’ll have to be content with stories about the making of “Silence.” The good news is those tales don’t disappoint.