White Noisedramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
White Noisereminded me a lot of 2003’sDreamcatcherin terms of taking suicidal wrong turns. The way this film veers into standard “gotcha!” scares and ludicrous plot developments is unforgivable, and it even comes topped with the “surprise” climax that is nothing more than a slap in the ...
The film is, in other words, ambitious, and as far as adaptations go, White Noise is as bold and unapologetically strange as it gets. There’s something admirable about White Noise’s overbearing strangeness, in fact, and the way in which it utterly refuses to ever even pretend that it ...
White Noise(Daniel Lombroso, 2020)2out of 4 stars. There is always a danger when making a film (or any nonfiction work) about problematic individuals whose views one may not agree with, but whose platforms one wishes to examine, that the showcasing of those views leads to their further p...
White Noise: Directed by Noah Baumbach. With Don Cheadle, Madison Gaughan, Douglas Brodax, Carly Brodax. Dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries
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Having glanced at the critic reviews I'm not surprised by the general response that White Noise tries to cram too much in/tries to address too many ideas and becomes muddled. But so what? Does that ruin the possibility for entertainment? Not a bit. This is a film that delights in being...
White Noise had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2022. It was released in select cinemas on November 25, 2022. Its streaming release happened on December 30, 2022, by Netflix. The film received polarized reviews from critics and audiences alike,...
Your kind generosity keeps the reviews coming! "White Noise" is the worst fucking movie I've ever seen. This dog makes "Plan 9 From Outer Space" seem like a masterpiece by comparison. As tempting as it might be to point fingers at Don Delillo, whose novel the film is based; director...
White Noise 2: The Light: Directed by Patrick Lussier. With Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Adrian Holmes. Following the loss of his family, a man attempts suicide only to discover upon waking that he can identify people who are about to