Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, "The Believer," this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A satisfyingly screwy New York story.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

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

Slate by Dana Stevens

Noise is never quite as smart as it tries to be. But as summer and its mouth-breathing blockbusters loom large on the horizon, there's something touching about a movie that even tries.

The New Yorker by David Denby

Bean's touch is unsteady, and Noise is certainly odd, but the movie is alive with the creative madness of New York.

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

Robbins plays David with the self-assurance that there's no combination sexier than smart, funny and self-righteously angry.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Bean fills in some empty spaces with heady thoughts about the nature of power and beauty, but 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.

New York Post by Kyle Smith

The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Eccentric and generally entertaining.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Amusing but marginal diatribe against aural assault in Manhattan.