Louder Than Bombs
Orchard, The | Release Date: April 8, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottApr 7, 2016
It is possible to admire the craft and sensitivity of Louder Than Bombs without quite believing it. The characters are so carefully drawn that they can feel smaller than life, and the dramatic space they inhabit has a curiously abstract feeling. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Apr 6, 2016
A quiet, restrained drama, Louder Than Bombs works a little like a photographer itself, changing its focus, showcasing scenes from different points of view, rearranging the order of the images. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 20, 2015
As the family resolves problems of the film's own making, the satisfaction gleaned is relatively minor. The threatened and/or promised explosions fizzle out frustratingly, leaving behind the lurking impression of Louder Than Bombs as a well-crafted, well-played, slickly-written misfire. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMay 20, 2015
While it's well acted and has strong moments on a scene-by-scene basis, the film lacks an emotional center, keeping the impact cool and diffuse where it should be affecting. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeMay 20, 2015
A tasteful grieving-family weepie, it's conceived and performed with utmost sincerity, yet lacks the intemperate human authenticity, the sense of profound strangeness in the everyday, that made Trier's ‘Reprise’ and ‘Oslo, August 31st’ so hard to shake. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshMay 5, 2016
Louder Than Bombs never quite comes together. You keep waiting for it to gel, but it just drifts along until it drifts away. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniApr 22, 2016
The film is a ponderous, overwrought meditation on grief, loss, guilt, and memory that prods and probes its characters more like lab rats than living, breathing creations. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 21, 2016
Joachim Trier is a Norwegian filmmaker who made a strong debut in 2011, with his film, “Oslo, August 31.” Louder Than Bombs is his first English-language effort, and it’s disappointing. Read full review
40
Total FilmJordan FarleyDec 21, 2016
Punctuated by a handful of well-observed scenes that belong in a better film...it's ultimately a flat, ineffectual affair that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 20, 2015
A rather silly, pointless and directionless film. Read full review
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