Critic Reviews for Noah on Moviebuff.com

The bulk of 'Noah' is a struggle between bearded Russell Crowe and his family to reconcile with his radical vision

Jordan Hoffman, ScreenCrush

Aronofsky bulks up his film not only with naturalistic spectacle but with fantastical elements that evoke both Ray Harryhausen and Peter Jackson

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

'Noah' - A film completely devoid of humanity, except for a few precious moments of relief at the end and a Peta-strength affection for animals

Jr Mintz, News 92 FM

There's enough splendor, ambition and intrigue to keep Darren Aronofsky's reboot of 'Evan Almighty' afloat

Caffeinated Clint, Moviehole

Aronofsky's long-nurtured pet project is a broadly non-denominational fantasia, merrily lifting riffs from a range of canonical and gnostic texts

Mark Kermode, The Guardian

Voyage aboard the Ark makes for very heavy going viewing indeed

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent

Darren Aronofsky's roaring biblical action-adventure is buoyed by Russell Crowe's mighty Noah, but some of the story's simplicity is swept away

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

'Noah' is almost enough to forgive Russell Crowe for 'Winter's Tale'

Drew Taylor, The Moviefone Blog

A powerful epic reimagining of one of humanity’s most iconic stories

Peter Sciretta, Slash Film

'Noah' makes Biblical myth grand in scope and intimate in appeal

Roger Moore, Movie Nation

Aronofsky doesn’t spare the details

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

Aronofsky's 'Noah' seems like a strange pastiche of sci-fi and Biblical elements in uneasy fusion, dunked in the dark soup of guilt, rescued at the last moment by the redemption of humanity's innate sense of mercy

Andrew L Urban, Urban Cinefile

What's onscreen often feels more like a visual transcript of one man's fantasy or nightmare

Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert

Ark-sized ambition with uneven results

Oliver Gettell, Los Angeles Times

Audacious and uncompromising, it’s a legitimate epic

Curtis Woloschuk, Total Film

Darren Aronofsky pushes outside his comfort one and delivers a strange but deeply compelling Biblical epic

Erin Free, FilmInk

Renny Harlin keeps it commendably brisk, and insists on the primacy of performers duking it out on non-virtual sets

Mike McCahill, The Guardian

'Noah' is occasionally clumsy, ridiculous and unconvincing, but it is almost never dull, and very little of it has the careful, by-the-numbers quality that characterizes big-studio action-fantasy entertainment

AO Scott, The New York Times

The tormented Noah is in keeping with Aronofsky’s penchant for deeply troubled characters and Russell Crowe’s performance is solid though not outstanding

Kim Choe, 3 News

Darren Aronofsky gives fresh life to a story made tepid by centuries of Sunday Schooling

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

Short of transforming 'Noah' into an antediluvian 'Captain America', there may be no better process of enlivening this seminal archaic tale

Eric Kohn, Indiewire

Darren Aronofsky has created an epic and stylish adaptation of the biblical flood story, but doesn't quite overcome the traditional difficulties of the genre

Andrew Pulver, The Guardian

Russell Crowe tries to add depth to Darren Aronofsky's flood blockbuster, but it's sunk by preposterous embellishment

Alex von Tunzelmann, The Guardian

'Noah' is a personal film at heart (just one that cost $125 million) and I suspect your own reaction may be personal, too

Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

'Noah' is a great movie until the ark's doors close

Mick LaSalle, SFGate

'Noah' lays out a path of despair and a path of hope

Matt Goldberg, Collider

The film's most provocative inventions may be those concerning the hero

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

There's no booming voice from above here, and no reassurance that all the death and hard choices were worth it, or will result in a better world. Any answers come from within, and that’s the most radical departure of all

Keith Phipps, The Dissolve

The tragedy of 'Noah' as a film is that the scope of its ideology is so inclusive that audiences run the risk of only taking out of it what they brought in with them

Silas Lesnick, ComingSoon.net

The best part is this film isn't trying to turn this into an action epic, full of external conflict, but simply being a character study, full of internal ones

New house News Service, New Orleans Los Angeles News

ussell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins and Darren Aronofsky put together a stimulating piece of art!

IANS Source, Bollywood Life

A surreal blend of fantasy and fact

Tanaya Ramyani, BookMyShow

In this flawed, fiercely relevant film, wonders never cease

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

'Noah' offers a compelling watch

Krish Sripada, Release Day

Although Aronofsky has dipped liberally into the well of fantasy in his recreation of Noah's tale

Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Times of India

As an original and arresting visual spectacle, Noah has plenty working in its favour

Leigh Paatsch, The Daily Telegraph

'Noah' is a captivating and engaging story with beautiful imagery that's told on big scale, but also a very human level

Philip Clarke, Moviepilot.com

'Noah' doesn't feature a rainbow but the pot of gold in the form of a rich, layered engrossing film more than makes up for that

Mini Anthikad Chhibber, The Hindu

Aronofsky has taken Noah’s journey sincerely to heart, processed it through his own singular visual and moral imagination and come up with a narrative that feels deeply personal

Ann Hornaday, Courier-journal

Aronofsky gives us a 'Noah' narrative unlike any we have seen before

David Blaustein, ABC News

Darren Aronofsky, a director known for excess, finds the perfect story for his brand of grand filmmaking with the biblical tale of 'Noah'

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Noah's new-age overtures work well enough that it's a shame, no matter how predictable and true to the film's message, to see it fall off into formal and spiritual asceticism

Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe bring an offbeat, visually exciting version of the story of Noah to the big screen

Eric Goldman, IGN

Russell Crowe is the stormy center of Aronofsky's turbulent and terrifying 'Noah'

Drew McWeeny, Hit Fix

Aronofsky has to be given credit for taking this story to a new and polarizing direction

Krystal Clark, ScreenCrave

Inventive, ambitious, brutal and beautiful: a potent mythological epic

Dan Jolin, Empire Online

'Noah' deserves to be appreciated by a mainstream audience in that it’s the rare tentpole movie with a lot of thought behind it, and a real piece of auteur cinema

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

The good news is that this is the best Russell Crowe performance we’ve gotten in quite a while

Nathan Adams, Film School Rejects

As an original and arresting visual spectacle, Noah has plenty working in its favour

Leigh Paatsch, Herald Sun

Above the expectation of the biblical epic disaster movie, it is Darren Aronofsky's top layer of morality that allows Noah safe passage

Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile