White Noise

    White Noise
    2022

    Synopsis

    Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.

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    Cast

    • Adam DriverJack Gladney
    • Greta GerwigBabette Gladney
    • Don CheadleMurray Siskind
    • Raffey CassidyDenise Gladney
    • Sam NivolaHeinrich Gladney
    • May NivolaSteffie Gladney
    • Jodie Turner-SmithWinnie Richards
    • André 3000Elliot Lasher
    • Sam GoldAlfonse
    • Carlos JacottGrappa

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      Baumbach has landed a sizeable white whale in his tremendously elegant and assured adaptation.
    • 80

      The Telegraph

      For this usually understated filmmaker, it’s a madcap outlier, and often resembles an early Steven Spielberg film having a nervous breakdown.
    • 80

      BBC

      White Noise has so much crammed into its two-and-a-quarter hours that it will take multiple viewings to unpack it all. Luckily, it's all so entertaining that the prospect of those multiple viewings is an enticing one indeed.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      Baumbach is ultimately too in sync with DeLillo for “White Noise” to escape from the shadow of its monolithic source material, as movie struggles to escape the hat on a hat sensation of that match between filmmaker and novelist, and often feels like the work of a third party who’s trying to imitate them both at once. All the same, you can still hear something almost subliminally divine under that uncanniness whenever Baumbach cranks up the volume.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Visually inventive, wryly satirical, White Noise the film leaves viewers to apply DeLillo’s sometimes prescient visions of a morally and physically diseased America to post-pandemic 2022 as they see fit. But it still has a lot going for it, much of it entertaining.
    • 67

      The Film Stage

      It feels condescending to brand Baumbach’s White Noise a “nice try,” considering how much the director has accomplished in the past, but it’s sadly quite accurate—if also more nuanced than calling it a failure or something that shouldn’t have been pursued.
    • 60

      TheWrap

      Baumbach’s textural/visual/sonic approach is stylish enough that even when White Noise is just churning along, there’s always a keen detail to absorb or killer observation to take in, if not an emotion to latch onto.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      There’s much to appreciate in Noah Baumbach’s alternately exhilarating and enervating attempt to tame Don DeLillo’s comedy of death, White Noise, not least the daredevil spirit and ambition with which the writer-director and his cast plunge into the tricky material. But little in this episodic freakout hits the target quite so well as the wild end credits sequence.