Could have and should have been a demented little gem, but as it is, it's just a muddled, sloppy, and often incoherent little rant about New York...

| Sep 4, 2010

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

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?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Having hooked us with the tagline, director Henry Bean never seems to be sure quite where to run with it.

| Oct 18, 2008

Bean's scenario is too inconsequential to take seriously and not outlandish enough to entertain.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2008

Amusing but marginal.

| Sep 25, 2008

Even at the movie's climax, Saville wants us to keep looking at the characters

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 21, 2008

An entertaining comedy with dashes of sex, all served up by a top cast

| Jun 5, 2008

A presumably rectifiable dilemma for urbanites needs more serious treatment.

| May 30, 2008

The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2008

I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 16, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2008

Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy.

Full Review | May 15, 2008

It's wickedly amusing for a little bit, but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 15, 2008

A splendidly eccentric independent film written and directed by Henry Bean.

| May 12, 2008

There's an intriguing canvas here, but Bean paints in broad strokes and then just sort of gives up at the end.

Full Review | May 12, 2008

The moral of this failed fable might best be summed up as, "Dude, get some earplugs."

Full Review | May 10, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2008