Sound of Metal: Finding new meaning in the sound of silence

Darius Marder’s

Riz Ahmed plays a heavy metal drummer who has recently started to lose his hearing in Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal

Directed by Darius Marder

Amazon Prime, 15

Rating: *****

A Common Crime

Directed by Francisco Márquez

IFI@Home, no cert

Rating: ****

“You an addict?” the therapist Joe (Paul Raci) asks through dictation software, his words appearing on a computer monitor.

Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a heavy metal drummer who has recently started to lose his hearing, reads off a screen and nods yes. He’s been clean for four years, ever since he met ...