Director Noah Baumbach gives it the old college try and for the most part succeeds. Some sections fall flat, understandable as it tackles so many 80s tropes, but when it sizzles it’s jam hot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2025

It’s heartening to come across a film that broaches such big ideas without ever losing its sense of dark and ironic fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Baumbach manages to transform this strange portrait of American numbness, consumerism, and soul-searching into something intimate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Baumbach captures the novel’s emphasis on death and society’s attitude towards it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 21, 2024

If anything, White Noise shows that being overtly faithful to a pre-existing source from another medium can fundamentally lead to a film’s downfall.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2024

It is never completely all together, but allows itself to be so free and playful about the bindings of its genres that when the end-credits sequence appears, you’re absolutely convinced that [White Noise] is worthy of such a credits sequence

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Instead of something that speaks directly to the present, it’s a period piece... There’s not much fun in a film where everyone’s just looking at Twitter. But without its eerie relevance, it’s not quite clear why this film even exists.

| Apr 11, 2024

At its best, Noah Baumbach’s impressive and thoroughly decent adaptation of White Noise interestingly discusses people’s relatable ownership of secrets yet complete inability to internalize them.

| Oct 4, 2023

Not only do these numerous subplots fail to cohere into an actual story, but each is approached with such detachment that it feels like you're watching them unfold through several miles of plexiglass via a telescope from the other side of the galaxy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2023

Fans unfamiliar with the novel may be disappointed that the film does not feel like a Baumbach film – without credits, it could be mistaken for Wes Anderson – and find the story pulls punches in the end when it feel like more oomph is needed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

The movie limits itself to its title, that is, it remains within the "noise" and doesn't get to the "background" of the themes it satirizes, specifically fear. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 28, 2023

Admirers of Baumbach will smile at the ways in which White Noise embodies his longtime preoccupations and simultaneously points toward bold new possibilities...

| Jul 27, 2023

White Noise is a mumblecore indie film with a Spielbergian disaster at its core. It’s grander than anything Baumbach has done before, and may likely do again. The film is a biting satire of our times, plucked out of the 1980s.

| Jul 25, 2023

There might be occasions where you see Bambach struggling with the hefty source material, but, in conclusion, he delivers a worthy adaptation filled with empathy and dismay, both in captivating equal measures.

| Original Score: A | Jul 25, 2023

White Noise is a film that absolutely shouldn’t work, and yet it does.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2023

While frustrating that it cant’ quite replicate the enjoyable messiness of its first hour across its whole runtime, White Noise is an enjoyable swing from all involved, a complete departure from Noah Baumbach’s previous work

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2023

An unforgettable movie about family, disasters, consumerism, addiction, and finding meaning in surprising places.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2023

White Noise pretends to depict America in the middle of a waking nightmare, but it’s a privileged person’s nightmare.

| Apr 27, 2023

something of a mess, but in a great, enthralling, engaging kind of way

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023

Even amid the hijinks, an affecting score from Danny Elfman, and the instantly catchy LCD Soundsystem song that ties the chaos together, White Noise can’t sustain itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2023