The Voices

The Voices turns its comedy from the setup itself, and that oddity is what carries it. By our assessment, it is best for viewers who like black, character-driven humor rather than broad jokes; the genre label is doing real work here. The film’s good trick is that it uses a very specific premise to keep the tone unstable, so the laughs can arrive in uncomfortable places. The downside is that this kind of comedy can feel too off-kilter if you want a clean, easy rhythm. In practice it is one of those movies where the mood is the point, and the mood keeps wobbling on purpose. Compared with ordinary studio comedies, it sits much farther toward strange and dark. The 2014 date places it in that run of mid-budget genre pieces that relied more on concept and tone than on crowd-pleasing shape.