Louder Than Words
ARC Entertainment (II) | Release Date: August 1, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
7
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88
ObserverRex ReedJul 30, 2014
It’s a feel-good film with an infectious sense of fun and inspiration that brings out the best in people instead of catering to their lowest instincts. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAug 1, 2014
This story truly is inspirational and a lesson about civic responsibility. However, it makes for little more than a TV movie or a straight-to-video snack. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJul 31, 2014
Unfortunately director Anthony Fabian prefers to dole out emotion in short bursts of superficial montage rather than fully dramatic scene work in which characters deepen through extended interaction. That leaves Louder Than Words feeling diffuse, choppy and cold rather than illuminative about how broken families heal after terrible loss. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 31, 2014
Duchovny tamps down his sardonic style to play a quiet guy, but the result is blandness. Timothy Hutton gives a solid turn as a standup businessman. In all, director Anthony Fabian isn’t sure how to build a nontreacly movie out of an inspiring true-life story. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaAug 1, 2014
What is harder to achieve than building a hospital? Producing a realistic movie about coping with grief by helping others – at least for the filmmakers behind Louder Than Words. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 31, 2014
There’s a way to tell this story that wouldn’t come across as soggy or manipulative. However well intentioned, Louder Than Words doesn’t find that tone. Read full review
30
Village VoiceSteve EricksonJul 29, 2014
Louder Than Words obviously means well, but its brand of cheap uplift is the kind of cheese that actually breeds cynicism. Read full review
25
Washington PostMark JenkinsJul 31, 2014
At every turn, the movie is less moving than the real-life events that inspired it. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineCarson LundJul 28, 2014
Never once does it project an intuitive understanding of how humans would behave or react in the midst of such a shattering misfortune. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 31, 2014
This Lifetime-grade pic is bad enough to have no impact, a vanity project whose ostensible story -- a grieving dad fights bureaucracy to build a children's hospital honoring his dead daughter -- is one of the least dramatic things put on screen in recent years. Read full review
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The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicAug 5, 2014
This is advertisement masquerading as a story, pretending to be a movie, but at the very least, it’s for a good cause. Read full review
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