What if a New Yorker got so pissed off at noise on the streets that he transformed himself into "the Rectifier" and took action against car alarms? Writer-director Henry Bean, the master behind The Believer, is that man. But instead of turning vigilante, he made a movie about it, put in Tim Robbins as the Rectifier and William Hurt as the mayor who opposes him, and worked out variations on a theme. It's wickedly amusing for a little bit — Robbins and Hurt really get into it — but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”