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
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.
05/08/08
A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean.
05/12/08
I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this.
05/16/08
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.
05/09/08
Watch it to see Tim Robbins shake his booty to the beat while bashing a car to bits with his baseball bat.
05/07/08
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
The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.
05/09/08
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.
05/07/08
The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.
05/16/08
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.
05/08/08
Noise is a funny movie about a serious issue, delivered tongue in cheek but with real conviction.
05/07/08
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
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
An entertaining comedy with dashes of sex, all served up by a top cast
06/05/08
There hasn’t been such manifest smugness on screen since The Squid and the Whale.
05/07/08
everyone turns in a solid performance, despite some rather staid material they're working with.
09/20/08
Noise is meant to be a fable of personal empowerment for Everyman, but due to some wildly uneven direction and one-dimensional characters, it simply comes off as a shallow Yuppie fairy tale.
05/08/08
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