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

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

Above all, it is - not surprisingly - a marriage story, and the story of a family that, in its own bizarre way, might be the most functional and relatable Baumbach has ever portrayed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2023

It’s another one of 2022’s high profile, star-encrusted projects that struggles to be as good as its dazzling cast and provocative premise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2023

White Noise is bursting with fun things to watch. And though the story takes place in the 1980s, it tackles present day preoccupations: human-caused disaster, media saturation, drug addiction and consumerism.

| Jan 6, 2023

The effect here is that [Noah Baumbach's] White Noise comes across far more sentimentally than DeLillo likely ever intended. Yet its forgiving nature is oddly comforting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2023

Baumbach holds back from giving us anything truly bold. The film needed to be far more experimental and political to have something substantial to say about our viewing practices...

| Jan 3, 2023

It’s funny and surprisingly unnerving stuff. The film also manages to feel contemporary without ever dropping the throwback aesthetic.

| Jan 3, 2023

Baumbach overreaches in White Noise. The movie is unsuccessful because its various energies eventually begin to feel mismeasured.

| Dec 30, 2022

Kudos to Baumbach for trying something new, but White Noise is an endurance test.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 30, 2022

The result is a movie so faithful to the original work that it comes very close to not working.

| Dec 30, 2022

Noah Baumbach honors Don DeLillo’s virtuoso novel about the comic-absurdist chaos of consumerism with too cautious respect. The result is his most constricted film, which only breaks free when costars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig fly on their own wings.

| Dec 30, 2022

Baumbach’s pandemic-inspired undertones resonate on that level, but it’s played in such stilted fashion as to make White Noise pretty easy to tune out.

| Dec 29, 2022

DeLillo’s novel is a singular work. But Baumbach’s “White Noise” is worthwhile in its own way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2022

The structural problems remain: there’s a campus comedy, a disaster flick, and a crime caper that never cohere, but I liked Baumbach’s Gladney family much more than DeLillo’s...

| Dec 17, 2022

The costumiers and make-up folk have worked hard on Gerwig and Driver, but both still look dressed-up for a particularly boring Halloween Party – the former as 1980s Deirdre Barlow, the latter as recovering trainspotter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2022

Departing from his comfort zone of neurotic, yet very relatable characters Baumbach has managed to deliver something rather special here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022

Here, forays into broad comedy and slapstick falter, drawing attention in all the wrong ways... Still, the entire cast is pitch-perfect, everyone inhabiting their roles with an expert ease.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2022

DeLillo’s novel has long been considered to be “unadaptable” due to how it succeeded in telling an expansive yet intimate story of postmodern peril. Despite this, Baumbach has managed to mostly do it justice...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2022

If a film could smirk, this one would.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2022

Even with a black cloud literally chasing this family and much talk of the inevitability of death, White Noise has a weirdly optimistic side as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2022