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Riz Ahmed plays Ruben Stone, a heavy-metal drummer whose life is upended when he develops drastic hearing loss. Ruben's on the road with bandmate and partner Lou (Ready Player One's Olivia Cooke) when he has no choice but to seek medical help. He winds up&nbsp;checking in to a home for deaf addicts that's run by Joe (Paul Raci), a veteran who helps his charges get to grips with their new way of living. On a visceral level, the immersive sound design adds to an uncannily engaging film experience. Entirely captioned, Sound Of Metal frequently makes you'feel' Ruben's disorientation and isolation. And while it's&nbsp;tackling a serious subject, and shining a rare cinematic light on the deaf community, it never patronises or lectures its characters or its audience. There's also something remarkably intimate about the way Ruben's relationships develop as he begins to grasp sign language. With bleach-blond hair and a lithe torso scrawled in tattoos, Ahmed is electrifying in the lead, inhabiting&nbsp;his role like a second skin. Cooke is also terrific in a smaller role, but it's Raci who's the best of the supporting players. In real life, Raci was a child of deaf adults (and is also in an ASL metal band) and he's on authoritative and empathetic form here. As Sound of Metal builds to its somewhat surprising third act, the cumulative effect is both powerful and profound. 2020, 15, 120MIN

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