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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghPainfully cliched. The music is throbbing and the leads are cute, but there's nothing here viewers haven't seen before.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNo one will mistake director Alejandro Chomski's Feel the Noise for great drama. But there's an undeniable sweetness to the characters, the performers are highly appealing, and the music sizzles.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe plot is contrived, the performances are all over the board, and Chomski's camera ogles his actresses just a little too much.
- It’s the subtexts -- about minority kinship and Hispanic self-actualization -- that resound. If only its fable (and leading man) didn’t keep getting in the way.
- 50Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrOld story, new beat: That sums up Feel the Noise, an acceptable if resolutely average low-budget drama set in the New York/Puerto Rican musical melting pot known as reggaeton.
- 40VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonTrifling time-killer.
- 40Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleIt’s hard to fault a screenwriter for cramming every idea he’s ever had about anything into his first movie for fear there won’t be a second.
- 30L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonInane uplift tale for teens.
- 25The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinReggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.