Having hooked us with the tagline, director Henry Bean never seems to be sure quite where to run with it.
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10/18/08
Noise (2008)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:16
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Noise starts with an interesting premise, but fails to build it into a cohesive whole.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Henry Bean (“The Believer”) returns to the big screen with a complete rarity in American movies today: a comedy of ideas. David (Oscar-winner Tim Robbins) is a successful lawyer who can’t stand the... [More]
Starring: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva
Director: Henry Bean
Reviews for Noise
How 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?
10/18/08
Top CriticAmid 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.
10/18/08
Bean’s scenario is too inconsequential to take seriously and not outlandish enough to entertain.
10/18/08
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10/01/08
Amusing but marginal.
09/25/08
Top Criticeveryone turns in a solid performance, despite some rather staid material they're working with.
09/20/08
An entertaining comedy with dashes of sex, all served up by a top cast
06/05/08
A presumably rectifiable dilemma for urbanites needs more serious treatment.
05/30/08
The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.
05/16/08
I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this.
05/16/08
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.
05/15/08
Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy.
05/15/08
It's wickedly amusing for a little bit, but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.
05/15/08
A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean.
05/12/08
There’s an intriguing canvas here, but Bean paints in broad strokes and then just sort of gives up at the end.
05/12/08
The moral of this failed fable might best be summed up as, "Dude, get some earplugs."
05/10/08
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.
05/09/08
Like the car alarms it demonizes, Noise is insistent and initially attention-grabbing -- but eventually a little one-note and empty.
05/09/08
The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.
05/09/08
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