Noah plays way too loose with the text to be a satisfying film, no matter how hard it tries.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2024

The film questions a creator’s obligations at earthly and spiritual levels, with complications that concern masculine privilege to color the margins. "Noah" doesn’t preach to the choir. It dares the choir to keep up amid minor chords & melodic inversion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2024

As an exercise in retelling the story, it'll draw more laughs and grunts of incomprehension than actual admiration. Still, Noah is a brave film – and that's always worth appreciating.

| Apr 18, 2023

Ancient mythology and modern cosmology come together in the story of Genesis, told in Noah’s own words and illustrated with imagery reminiscent of Cosmos, a wedding of science and religion in a way respectful of both.

| Jan 7, 2023

It’s a movie that teases us with what it could have been but ultimately stumbles because of what it actually is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2022

In the end, perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid to Aronofsky is that he’s made a compelling discussion piece, but a frustratingly uneven one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2022

A thought-provoking take on a familiar story that will keep you guessing until the end credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

It's a film that makes one think and feel and, yes, wonder.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

The film is a visceral spectacle in Darren Aronofsky's catalog. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020

I didn't hate it.

| Apr 27, 2020

Who knew that the infamous 40 days and 40 nights could have that much of an edge to it?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2020

Missed opportunities.

| Mar 26, 2020

If any disclaimer is necessary concerning its loose inspiration from Christian mythology, it's that the ambitious venture is colossally silly and unerringly stale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Bolstered by strong performances by the entire cast, strong visuals, and a filled out script, "Noah" may be one of the better biblical adaptations.

| Aug 8, 2019

It takes all of five minutes for Noah to deliver a Dikembe Mutombo-like swat to expectations of Sunday school bible study.

| Original Score: A | Aug 6, 2019

However conflicted this flawed representation of archetypal mythology may make you feel, it is certainly worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Despite Noah's vivid surface appeal, it ultimately fails to recreate the tale's original sense of thematic unity, and thus becomes acutely aware of its own deprived meaning.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2019

A cinematic enigma -- both maddening and magnificent... "Noah" requires a leap of faith, but if you are willing to take a chance it is a film that will challenge and impress.

| Feb 1, 2019

Throw in some plot holes that left me annoyed, and it was a rough way to spend two hours and 18 minutes.

| Jan 29, 2019

Noah is a worthy, ambitious mess of a movie, and as a deeply personal new take on an old tale, it's the kind of mess we could use a bit more often from Hollywood.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 22, 2018