Noah Reviews
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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021
It's a film that makes one think and feel and, yes, wonder.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020
The film is a visceral spectacle in Darren Aronofsky's catalog. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020
I didn't hate it.
Full Review | Apr 27, 2020
Who knew that the infamous 40 days and 40 nights could have that much of an edge to it?
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2020
Missed opportunities.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 6, 2019
However conflicted this flawed representation of archetypal mythology may make you feel, it is certainly worth seeing.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | 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.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 22, 2018
Once the film has blown it's CGI load, it turns into a kitchen sink drama, an episode of Eastenders as directed by Mike Leigh.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2018