Joan Baez I Am A Noise
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 6, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
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1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 11, 2023
Throughout the film, it’s Baez who holds the audience spellbound, not just in live performances that remained transfixing from the late 1950s to the 2010s, but in her very being. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 3, 2023
It’s a somewhat sprawling and almost ungainly film, years in the making, very revealing and yet notably incomplete. Read full review
83
Original-CinLiam LaceyOct 5, 2023
This visual memoir paints a picture of a woman who, while leading a rich professional life, was plagued by personal demons. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 27, 2023
The folk singer and counterculture veteran Joan Baez is the subject of this intimate and painful documentary, which brings us to the brink of a terribly traumatic revelation that it can’t quite bear to spell out. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyOct 6, 2023
I Am a Noise, beginning with Baez actually consulting a voice coach as she prepares for what will be a “farewell tour” (it was undertaken in 2019 before COVID hit the world), is a coherent, cohesive, and sometimes jarringly frank portrait. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckOct 3, 2023
The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what we learn in the thoughtful, thorough and sometimes harrowingly intimate Joan Baez: I Am a Noise is that Baez was also seeking to overcome much on a personal scale: anxiety, depression, loneliness and, late in life, troubling repressed memories about her own father. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJan 2, 2024
Sure, it’s not terribly satisfying resolutionwise because you’re still left with as many questions as answers in the end. But that’s the thing about looking back on your life at a relatively late age. So many gaps left unfilled. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 10, 2023
The bottom line on Joan Baez I Am a Noise is that if you absolutely love Baez and her work, you will find nothing here to challenge your preconceptions and will probably learn some things you didn’t know. But if you’re merely Baez-curious, this documentary will not satisfy and might even make you less curious. Read full review
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