Noise 2007

Critics score:
57 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: [Director] Bean 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. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: 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? Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one. Read more

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Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Like the car alarms it demonizes, Noise is insistent and initially attention-grabbing -- but eventually a little one-note and empty. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: 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. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Noise is a funny movie about a serious issue, delivered tongue in cheek but with real conviction. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: 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. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: 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. Read more

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Jay Weissberg, Variety: Amusing but marginal. Read more