Noise (Henry Bean, 2007)

NoiseHenry Bean’s follow-up to his polarizing festival favorite The Believer is another examination of fanaticism, except this time with a darkly comic bent. Tim Robbins is perfectly cast as the New York City lawyer driven to vigilante vandalism by the nonstop noise pollution of the big city; he has a way of conveying the verge of insanity with just the right glint of reason. The film starts out well, but gets muddled in the middle before pulling out a courtroom climax that works despite its familiarity. (AMC Northpark, Dallas, TX, screened as part of the AFI Dallas Film Festival)