There are occasionally some great scenes, but they never add up to much of anything.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 29, 2021

There is a lot of grief in 'Louder Than Bombs,' but it is not what the movie wants audiences to take home. Instead, Trier is more interested in how characters move forward in spite of tragedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 1, 2021

Dense yet lively, touching but not corny, mature and intelligent without being showy, Louder than Bombs is a rare gift of a movie.

| Jul 17, 2020

A tedious and failed portrait of a family and the different ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 14, 2020

When Trier decides to break away and show the stories of each individual, it falls into clichés that wind up making the film get lost within itself.

| May 31, 2019

Trier allows memory and memoir to waft together like curls of smoke, and while it's all quite beautifully constructed and well-acted, it also wallows in the same wishy-washy style and casual exploitation as Oslo August 31st.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

The unhappiness occasionally descends into old clichés of difficult people being difficult - but it's that rare middle-class crisis so fascinatingly conceived, shot and edited that you'll forgive it anything.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

It's an interesting film, though a very insular one, as a family tries to bring a traveller home.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 19, 2019

"Louder Than Bombs" is a very intimate affair. The plot is as simple as they come, but it's how the perspectives and scenes shift from character to character and points in time that give strength to this film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2018

The film feels like a throwback ensemble piece, one that refuses to sugarcoat or demonize its characters' personal quagmires.

| Aug 23, 2018

Louder Than Bombs is a very intimate affair. The plot is as simple as they come, but it's how the perspectives and scenes shift from character to character and points in time that give strength to this film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

There is no doubt that Joachim Trier took a risk with Louder Than Bombs, but I believe his creative vision has the potential to pay off tenfold.

| Aug 6, 2018

Louder than Bombs is not a trivial picture. Its intentions are serious and respectable, but on some level these intentions become a burden, and the result, while admirable, never builds up into a complete cinematic experience.

| Jan 11, 2018

In the end, in Louder than Bombs' empathy with the other is not the result of deep knowledge but of the acceptance of its unfathomable intimacy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 30, 2017

Even though Louder Than Bombs has a gray, dour side (show me one "grief movie" that doesn't), there's a lot of hopefulness that resonates louder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2017

Ultimately, the film is loaded with too many themes that can't be unified in any satisfying way.

| Sep 26, 2017

Invest your time in "Louder Than Bombs;" it will pay dividends.

| Sep 15, 2017

Louder Than Bombs is one of those increasingly common, frustrating films that has great promise, some insightful, even poignant scenes, but that doesn't quite click.

| Aug 29, 2017

Each moment here has weight, and each moment adds up to something greater than the sum of its parts.

| Aug 22, 2017

Old wounds never fully heal and catharsis comes in small drops, not big dramatic moments. But it's a film about people who love each other even if they're angry, people who are trying even if their efforts are fruitless.

| Jul 14, 2017