Even when it feels like it’s about to fly off the rails, Noyer’s smart direction and a tender performance from Brown ground it in place. There are the beginnings of a grand career at work here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Sound of Violence’s nonchalant depictions of violence, which occur with such obfuscation due to uncoordinated quick-cut editing and color filters, render it a fangless drama with un-engaging sequences of killing and torture.

| Jan 9, 2024

Sound of Violence feels undercooked from a narrative point of view.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 23, 2023

Bloody giallo film.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2022

If the oddities of Sound of Violence grab you, I say go into the film expecting to have a forgettably fun time. If you want something more out of a serial killer flick, I suggest you keep looking.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 17, 2022

Like a cross between Velvet Buzzsaw and Saw, but it never strikes a balance between those two differing tones.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2022

The synaesthetic kills erupt on screen like the Northern lights on LSD, but it's the quieter character moments that really hit home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2021

Often stunning visually and as you would expect, it boasts an intense sound design, it's a film that challenges as much as it rewards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2021

It's a stylistically innovative, intelligent piece of work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2021

Remains absolutely faithful to giallo tradition, in taking a crass and borderline ludicrous premise and pushing it to lurid ends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2021

Investing in women characters is sadly still a gamble in the cinematic universe, and within the horror genre, it can be hard to get it right. Noyer succeeds in Sound of Violence by leaving the male gaze in the dust.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2021

The film is almost the literal interpretation of that "tiredwired" meme on Twitter and elsewhere, and that's the best way I can describe it. Sometimes it gets lost in its own making, sometimes it triumphs. There's no in-between.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Led by a fantastic lead performance, this novel, gritty little slasher throwback has a lot more on its mind than just mindless carnage.

| Jun 7, 2021

Not everything works in Sound of Violence, but its effective balancing act of authenticity and go-for-broke bonkers keeps things singing.

| Jun 6, 2021

The potential is here, but with Sound of Violence, the blood only runs so deep.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Alex Noyer is out to shock the hell out of you and he does just that with this hardcore horror outing, which is as original as it is gory.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2021

Brown's deeply felt performance balances Alexis' strength and vulnerability. Yet the screenplay becomes contrived and far-fetched in the final act, diminishing its visceral chills.

| May 22, 2021

Noyer balances his dark emotional roller coaster with ungodly wicked humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2021

The visual and narrative shortcomings of the film notwithstanding, Sound of Violence works at the very least as goofy, gory gratification.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | May 21, 2021

"Sound of Violence" boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up. It's just a shame that Noyer decides that it isn't enough.

| May 21, 2021