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Noah is a bold, unruly biblical epic that treats Genesis like the start of a fever dream: part disaster movie, part family melodrama, part environmental parable, part psychological breakdown. Its ambition, imagery, and willingness to get weird are the main attractions, even when the storytelling feels clumsy or… Read more
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Fri · 2h 18m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Darren Aronofsky
Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone
Noah is a bold, unruly biblical epic that treats Genesis like the start of a fever dream: part disaster movie, part family melodrama, part environmental parable, part psychological breakdown. Its ambition, imagery, and willingness to get weird are the main attractions, even when the storytelling feels clumsy or overstuffed.
Noah is one of those movies that feels more interesting than it is elegant. Darren Aronofsky turns a familiar story into something feverish and strange, using the flood narrative as a vessel for obsession, guilt, stewardship, and the violence baked into survival. The result is a biblical epic that keeps slipping into psychological thriller, family tragedy, and end-of-the-world spectacle.
What makes it worth discussing is also what makes it divisive: the movie is committed to its own bizarre logic, from the apocalyptic imagery to the rock-angel creatures and the increasingly grim moral choices. It has real visual force and a serious thematic pulse, but it can also feel overdetermined, melodramatic, and oddly inert in stretches.
If you’re open to a major studio film that behaves like an art-house provocation, there’s plenty here to admire. If you want a clean, devotional, or emotionally seamless retelling, this will probably test your patience.
Ellie ✨ (2★) · 1883 likes
me 15 minutes in: [pauses, goes into the next room] mum: hello me: hi. are there rock monsters in the bible? her: rock monsters? me: yes. her: in the bible? me: yes. her, with - i assume - the entire fifteen years she took me to church flashing before her eyes: no. me: i feel like they might turn out to be angels? her: rock monster angels. me: maybe? her: no.
Nathan Rabin (4★) · 1404 likes
From the director of BLACK SWAN and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM comes some REALLY fucked up shit.
Ruslan Mavrodinov (5★) · 669 likes
Rather than delivering a straightforward adaptation of the famous Biblical tale that would appease most ultra-religious purists, Aronofsky has crafted a madly audacious and awe-inspiring hybrid of a dark psychological thriller, a gritty family melodrama on steroids, a fantastical sci-fi disaster epic, an environmental cautionary tale and a challenging philosophical parable that poses deep, timeless questions with its themes of morality and sin, faith and hope, revenge and forgiveness. A work of wild ambition, striking artistry and dramatic intensity, Noah
Wesley R. Ball (1★) · 511 likes
My favorite part of the Bible was when the giant rock people appeared to help Noah build his ark. And the part where he tried to kill his family because the crazy invisible sky man told him to? Classic.
pd187 (4★) · 434 likes
nobody remembers but 2014 when this came out glenn beck went around for a month calling it "the babylonian chainsaw massacre"
Another Aronofsky film that blends spiritual yearning, mortality, and grand visual abstraction into a deeply emotional, divisive experience.
A meditative, cosmic-scale film about creation, grace, suffering, and human fragility that shares Noah’s philosophical ambition.
A doom-laden, visually striking apocalypse story that turns cosmic catastrophe into intimate psychological drama.
A provocative religious reimagining that treats sacred material as a site of doubt, temptation, and human conflict.
For viewers drawn to severe, visceral biblical storytelling and uncompromising spiritual intensity.
A large-scale historical epic that wrestles with faith, violence, and the burden of moral leadership.
A neighboring big-budget biblical epic, though more conventional and less psychologically strange than Noah.
Classic Hollywood biblical spectacle with monumental scale and old-school reverence.
An epic of faith, suffering, and redemption with massive production value and emotional sweep.
A mythic, symbolic journey film that favors atmosphere, ambiguity, and moral testing over straightforward plotting.
A feverish, stylized descent into grief and vengeance that shares Noah’s willingness to go operatic and strange.
A confrontational allegorical film that, like Noah, uses biblical and ecological ideas to provoke and unsettle.
faith and doubt, apocalypse, family conflict, moral extremity, environmental collapse, obsession, survival, biblical reinterpretation
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