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Noise
THINKFilm
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Tim Robbins,
Bridget Moynahan,
William Baldwin,
William Hurt,
and
Gabrielle Brennan
David is a successful lawyer who can't stand the fact that Manhattan is a place where it's too noisy to get a good night's sleep, listen to classical music, or even make love to his wife without disturbance. Every time David hears a car alarm going off, he swings into action. Adopting the guise of "The Rectifier," he engages in acts of vandalism that satisfy him immensely but which generate no end of grief from his wife. They also make him politically controversial when he provokes the ire of the city's arrogant mayor. (THINKFilm)
GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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WRITTEN BY: |
Henry Bean
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DIRECTED BY: |
Henry Bean
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RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: May 9, 2008
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RUNNING TIME: |
88 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
LANGUAGE(S): |
English | Russian |
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75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A satisfyingly screwy New York story.
75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.
70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Robbins plays David with the self-assurance that there's no combination sexier than smart, funny and self-righteously angry.
70
The New Yorker
David Denby
Bean's touch is unsteady, and Noise is certainly odd, but the movie is alive with the creative madness of New York.
70
Slate
Dana Stevens
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.
63
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Bean fills in some empty spaces with heady thoughts about the nature of power and beauty, but 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.
63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Eccentric and generally entertaining.
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's wickedly amusing for a little bit -- Robbins and Hurt really get into it -- but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.
50
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Noise ultimately becomes a slice of city life instead of a great satire.
50
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Amusing but marginal diatribe against aural assault in Manhattan.
50
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy.
42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Bean always writes interesting scripts that toy with big ideas, but the films that result aren't always good. (Or even bearable.) Here he sets out to make an aural "Fight Club," but instead he's made a movie about a guy who really needs to buy earplugs.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The movie, whose cacophonous soundtrack, when turned up, conjures your worst nightmare of sirens, car alarms, jackhammers and sundry aural assaults, is a one-trick film that rapidly wears out its welcome.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Despite its intriguing premise, the movie is a disappointing misfire.
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