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46 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDarren Aronofsky wrestles one of scripture's most primal stories to the ground and extracts something vital and audacious, while also pushing some aggressive environmentalism, in Noah.
- 80VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasIt is never less than fascinating — and sometimes dazzling — in its ambitions.
- 80EmpireDan JolinEmpireDan JolinInventive, ambitious, brutal and beautiful: a potent mythological epic. But also wilfully challenging, as likely to infuriate as inspire, whether through its unmitigated Old Testament harshness or its eco-message revisionism. If only more blockbusters were like this.
- 75McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreIt isn’t “The Ten Commandments” and Crowe is no Charlton Heston. But Noah makes Biblical myth grand in scope and intimate in appeal. The purists can always go argue over “God Isn’t Dead.” The rest of creation can appreciate this rousing good yarn, told with blood and guts and brawn and beauty, with just a hint of madness to the whole enterprise.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezWill Noah anger some rigid purists and scholars because of the liberties it takes? Perhaps. But the point to take home is the message the movie leaves you with, which works regardless of your faith (or lack thereof). Humans are inherently flawed. How we deal with those defects is what truly matters.
- 70The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsIt’s an unwieldy, sometimes overreaching effort, but the laudable ambition makes it easy to forgive some rough patches.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Aronofsky’s earnest, uneven, intermittently powerful film, is both a psychological case study and a parable of hubris and humility. At its best, its shares some its namesake’s ferocious conviction, and not a little of his madness.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNeither fish nor fowl, neither foul nor inspiring, director and co-writer Darren Aronofsky's strange and often rich new movie Noah has enough actual filmmaking to its name to deserve better handling than a plainly nervous Paramount Pictures has given it.
- 58The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinThe PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinWhen focused on the natural world and the internal thoughts of its characters, Noah positively crackles with the energy of a filmmaker inspired by a new perspective on classic material... But the latter half of the film, turgid and hamfisted throughout, cripples the film so severely that it makes one thankful for the added elements to Noah’s story.
- 50IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnThe director's murky, ill-conceived take on the world's oldest disaster story contains some of the most pristine visuals produced on a mass studio scale in some time. But it's also constantly tethered to a dull, melodramatic series of events out of whack with any traditional interpretation of the material.