Baez is a class act, and so is this film.

| Jul 9, 2024

Fascinating in its content, disappointing in its execution. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2024

I Am a Noise sheds relatively little light on Baez’s artistic and social development, and what light it sheds on her inner life seems distorted. It is even less illuminating in regard to the period in which the singer came to prominence, the early 1960s.

| Mar 29, 2024

Ultimately this is documentary filmmaking as personal journey, a life story told with full visual immersion for the viewer.

| Mar 15, 2024

Whether or not you’ve ever been partial to Baez’s image as the sainted Madonna of the 1960s folk and protest movements, the movie is worth a look as a raw and intimate portrait of debilitating vulnerability.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 16, 2024

But it’s the last half-hour’s revelation of the repressed emotions and memories uncovered in Baez’s midlife therapy sessions, accompanied by the voice and written correspondence of her late father, Albert, that will stick with you most...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2024

I Am a Noise, a career-spanning documentary, makes it clear that the folk singer was one of the most important political musicians of her generation.

| Jan 2, 2024

A raw look at the public and private struggles of the singer and activist.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 4, 2023

A fearless, revealing documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2023

In Joan Baez I Am A Noise she takes on her whole life and all her relationships with a steely-eyed transparency.

| Nov 2, 2023

It recast my conception of her and deepened my understanding of her and her music.

| Nov 1, 2023

Baez sometimes talks on camera about how time has slightly withered her voice, but the movie shows that the years have compensated by giving her the wisdom to make the songs resonate on a deeper level.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2023

The folk singer and counterculture veteran Joan Baez is the subject of this intimate and painful documentary, which brings us to the brink of a terribly traumatic revelation that it can’t quite bear to spell out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2023

Joan Baez: I Am A Noise is a remarkable tale of transparency.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 23, 2023

Joan Baez was certainly unique among her cohorts, but "I Am A Noise" can’t escape the familiarity of a trip down memory lane.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2023

All this may be Too Much Information for some viewers, but as ever, Joan Baez is nothing if not highly intentional in even this late-breaking avalanche of self-disclosure.

| Oct 16, 2023

It’s mosaic as memoir as the filmmakers incorporate archival riches: home movies, journals and all sorts of recordings to capture a life in music and in spirited activism. Oh the glimpses of her youthful smile...

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 16, 2023

A bit uneven, but it ends very well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 14, 2023

Revealing her traumas of heartbreak, estrangement and physical abuse, the feature paints a portrait of an artist who has an electric connection with her audience but struggles with interpersonal trust and intimacy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 13, 2023

There’s a lot of heart and soul in the film, both from the directors and with Baez letting people into her life, leading to an enjoyable watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 13, 2023