Noise Reviews
Top CriticHow can you resist a hero who gets worked up because a car alarm disrupts his extremely tenuous grasp on a difficult but life altering passage of Hegel?
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Amid the seasonal din of so many raucous summer blockbusters, Noise offers blessed relief in the form of a strong central performance, sharp dialogue and edgy humor.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Habit
Even at the movie's climax, Saville wants us to keep looking at the characters
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| Original Score: 3/4
Filmcritic.com
full of interesting motifs and symbolism, making a curious statement about detachment from one's surroundings, no matter how thrilling they may seem to outside observers.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Urban Cinefile
An entertaining comedy with dashes of sex, all served up by a top cast
The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.
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| Original Score: B
Philadelphia Daily News
I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this.
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| Original Score: B-
A tale of obsession and vigilantism cut with humor and a little Hegel, Henry Bean's Noise is a satisfyingly screwy New York story in which a successful businessman/family man jettisons all because he can't stand the cacophony on the street.
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| Original Score: 3/4
A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean.
There's an intriguing canvas here, but Bean paints in broad strokes and then just sort of gives up at the end.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The movie's real appeal lies in the simple but by no means inconsiderable pleasure of watching Tim Robbins take a hammer to a parked car as it wails pointlessly, deep into the night.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
If Noise takes a certain New York path and tries to gently negotiate rather than smash things, Robbins and Hurt at least manage to keep it real.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Noise is never quite as smart as it tries to be. But as summer and its mouth-breathing blockbusters loom large on the horizon, there's something touching about a movie that even tries.
NewsBlaze
In this freakout indie satire, Robbins goes unusually insane and ready to rumble as a nervous wreck NYC lawyer so disoriented by loud street sounds, that sleep and sex are becoming a thing of the past. Egghead superheroes can also come in small packages.
As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, The Believer, this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.
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| Original Score: B
CinemaBlend.com
Watch it to see Tim Robbins shake his booty to the beat while bashing a car to bits with his baseball bat.
Noise is a funny movie about a serious issue, delivered tongue in cheek but with real conviction.
FILMINK (Australia)
Pulling no punches from its opening frames, Noise is a blunt, thoughtful and inherently human drama.
At the Movies (Australia)
What I want from a film is a punch in that emotional gut, and it's there in Noise. But I don't want it delivered in a facile fashion, and this certainly isn't.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
