The Sound and the Fury
New Films International | Release Date: October 23, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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50
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijOct 22, 2015
There’s certainly an overall sense of a formerly rich family’s fortunes dwindling, both economically and emotionally, but the three sections don’t add up to something more than the sum of their parts. Read full review
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The PlaylistJessica KiangOct 22, 2015
If ‘Dying’‘s main issue was a surfeit of ideas, ’Sound’ feels like it suffers from a paucity. Read full review
40
The GuardianPaul MacInnesOct 22, 2015
So bogged down by form, Franco fails to get his head up enough to think about content. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 22, 2015
Faulkner’s book, an oblique and complex tale of the American South’s festering decline, hasn’t so much been reworked for cinema as simply dumped on the screen in handfuls, and the result is a swirling mess. Read full review
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VarietyAndrew BarkerOct 22, 2015
The Sound and the Fury is certainly a folly, failing to capture the weird, entrancing, often maddening ambiance of the great writer’s elliptical masterpiece, and its surfeit of half-baked film-student flourishes and needless cameos occasionally give it an amateur-hour feel. Read full review
30
We Got This CoveredMatt HoffmanAug 7, 2019
One can say that Faulkner is unfilmable, but any work will be unfilmable when it is being adapted by a talentless director. In this case, the fault of the film’s issues stem completely from Franco and not at all with the difficulty in Faulkner’s writing. Hopefully, after two failed outings, the actor will learn to leave Faulkner’s masterful work alone. Although knowing him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him try his hand at adapting one of the author’s works again. Read full review
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