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White Noise

White Noise

2022
Comedy, Drama
2h 16m
White Noise dramatizes 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. (imdb)

Directed by:

Noah Baumbach

Screenwriter:

Noah Baumbach, Don DeLillo

Starring:

Don Cheadle, Barbara Sukowa, André Benjamin, Greta Gerwig, Lars Eidinger, Bill Camp, Adam Driver, Raffey Cassidy, Jodie Turner-Smith, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Danny Wolohan

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, German
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White Noise

2022
Comedy, Drama
2h 16m
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paxtonPaxton
Rated 10 Jan 2023
77
72nd
Adam Driver with a quick cut of bewilderment as he steers their car through a river is enough for me. Noah Baumbach seems to be creating new Jesse Eisenbergs out of thin air and I'm not really for that. I suppose if it leads to another accidental Michael Cera it's not all for naught.
Rated 10 Jan 2023
djrossdjross
Rated 30 Dec 2022
70
78th
A fine, amusing adaptation, generally faithful to the novel while cutting things out so as to fashion a movie possessing its own consistency. Perhaps it inherits the book’s weakness: that the strongest part comes early on, with the toxic airborne event, and that the Dylar plot, while interesting, veers off in a farcical direction that's less rewarding than one expected, given its themes. But an appended ending to proceedings definitely helps the viewer to come away with a more joyous feeling.
Rated 30 Dec 2022
twincinematwincinema
Rated 10 Jan 2023
40
18th
White Noise, or how I refer to Maroon 5. I have read the book twice, enjoyed it both times, and have completely forgot what happened. I think part of the issue here is that this is 1980s satire, but forty years later, and it just doesn't translate well. I admire Baumbach for trying, though. The best part about this was the credits.
Rated 10 Jan 2023
capodelnullacapodelnulla
Rated 10 Dec 2022
30
7th
i guess the death of satire is true... i would not believe if someone told me that i would consider leaving the theatre several times during a baumbach movie. but this thing is hardly watchable. haven't read the book, but it sure looks like the biting effect of the satire was not transferable for baumbach.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
ecitizeneCitizen
Rated 03 Jan 2023
35
24th
This movie is the very definition of stupidity. It's not so much weird and quirky as it is impossibly lame. I was somewhat annoyed by it throughout the entire movie, and by the ending was quite happy that it was over. I can't recommend it, unless you are in the mood for something ridiculous.
Rated 03 Jan 2023
bownBown
Rated 07 Oct 2022
83
67th
Probably the most funny and lively film I’ve ever seen about crippling existential dread, Baumbach’s adaptation is a fantastic success in many ways, from the great cast to the sheer number of laugh-out-moments to the blend of several tones - but it’s not perfect, with third act issues and a feeling that not all the themes mix well enough - in this version of the story, the supermarket/consumerism side can almost feel like window dressing. But overall a winner!
Rated 07 Oct 2022
wwallce4prezWWallce4prez
Rated 06 Jan 2023
68
41st
Don DeLillo’s content is filled to the brim with pseudo-intellectual babble that does have substance if you can stomach it. Baumbach’s direction is a lot but his cast’s performances make the work worth it. There are laugh out moments and a wonderful musical number to end it all. That supermarket set is something else.
Rated 06 Jan 2023
bofbof
Rated 01 Jan 2023
60
39th
"She's been different since the event. She wears a sweatsuit all the time. She stares out the window and cries for no reason." The first hour is brilliant, but the joke starts wearing thin after that, and there's a reason that's the plot people remember from the novel. But worth sticking with for the end credits. And the cameo by Dean & Britta.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
obdurateObdurate
Rated 31 Dec 2022
70
41st
There's a lot to like but not love. Driver is good, but it's not his best work. Gerwig was good. I was unsure how I felt for roughly the first hour/hour 15. And the toxic event was fine, but then it kind of just goes away from it and the plot afterward is not nearly as interesting as where the toxic event could have went. But I did enjoy it. It was funny on occasion, the directing had some inspired moments.
Rated 31 Dec 2022
jakeaestheteJakeAesthete
Rated 16 Dec 2022
66
64th
Very strange and counterintuitive for Baumbach to use DeLillo as fodder for an experimental Spielberg pastiche. Somehow not enough DeLillo or Baumbach, neither fish nor foul. An oddity on par with Rudolph's Breakfast of Champions, another left-field literary adaptation that really resembles nothing else in its directors oeuvre. Elfman's score is a huge part of the problem, although many of the performances also feel off. Enough of DeLillo's prose remains that it's consistently very funny.
Rated 16 Dec 2022
stuie299stuie299
Rated 24 Oct 2022
90
90th
I haven't read the book, so I don't know how much to credit Baumbach vs DeLillo, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. At it's core it's a quirky indie dramedy, but I love how most of it is filmed as a 80's Spielbergian blockbuster. Driver, Gerwig, and the kids were all fantastic. Though on the other hand I think you could have replaced Don Cheadle with Tim Meadows and no one would have noticed. I just love how stylized everything is. It does a good job straddling the line between challenging and fun.
Rated 24 Oct 2022
joelwatchesmoviesjoelwatchesmovies
Rated 11 Mar 2023
6
42nd
A great first two acts (on that note, the acting is excellent-Cheadle is hilarious) with its outrageously funny satire of academia (see the swirling professor duel), quirky family drama (the overlapping dialogue is edited to perfection), and oddball apocalyptic comedy all mashed together and drenched with existential dread. The third act is no less full of things to dissect but the characters make weird choices and it kinda loses the plot, literally, and thus any sort of momentum it had too.
Rated 11 Mar 2023
karlsonkarlson
Rated 06 Mar 2023
50
13th
A couple of chuckles. Two or three realy funny scènes. Otherwise, quite a bore to work through. Hyper intellectualistic rant that is rained down onto the viewer seemingly without an editorial check in a stampede of theatercollege, parody, metaphors, slapstick and fake news keelhauling, which despite its urgent and courageous agenda was too loose and went over my head.
Rated 06 Mar 2023
cowmanCowman
Rated 04 Mar 2023
80
89th
Not on board with the criticism this gets. Beautiful cinematography and music. Great performances allround. Funny, exciting, dramatic, dark even a bit thrilling near the end. Messy but I liked all of the chapters in their own way.
Rated 04 Mar 2023
jschlanskyJSchlansky
Rated 21 Jan 2023
55
34th
The stilted dialogue and unreality of everything was constantly reminding me of Cronenberg's Cosmopolis all throughout. Come to find out both are based on books by the same author, Don DeLillo. I haven't read his work, but he clearly has a unique style if directors as different as Baumbach and Cronenberg wind up making such similar feeling movies out of his source material. I guess his style must work better on the page because it doesn't quite work on screen, though it is quite interesting.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
duderDuder
Rated 18 Jan 2023
60
40th
Four different movies within a single film is difficult. I kinda like Baumbach’s chaotic style, but this one was onthe very fine edge of being too chaotic. Still creatly entertaining but a bit confused. Bit too long, but I guess most of it is from the book.
Rated 18 Jan 2023
thervealThe_Rveal
Rated 05 Jan 2023
35
54th
Working in a mode largely removed from his other films, Baumbach’s faithful attempt to adapt the book frequently groans under the difficulty. Seemingly every moment that works, like a bravura set piece in which Jack and fellow professor Murray Suskind (Don Cheadle) deliver intertwined lectures on Hitler and Elvis, is matched by ones that don’t, particularly in the film’s final act. Baumbach’s White Noise looks both quaint and current, a vision of what was, what still is, and what may be again.
Rated 05 Jan 2023
sellissellis
Rated 04 Jan 2023
76
48th
A lot of fun. If not for the awful musical score from Elfman, better pacing in the last act, more Cheadle, and a not totally wasted Andre 3K, I might’ve even loved this. May check out the book now.
Rated 04 Jan 2023
p_u_l_pP u l p
Rated 02 Jan 2023
45
34th
This movie is equivalent to the potato chips I bought the other day; only 40% of it were chips and the other 60% was just pure air. That's how I felt watching this movie.
Rated 02 Jan 2023
spunkieSpunkie
Rated 01 Jan 2023
55
52nd
I found it sufficiently amusing. It made me feel there's probably a much better original material underlying it which didn't have much chance to shine through due to scatteredness. It's certainly not as bad as it's made out to be. Imdb users need a hard look at themselves what sort of drivel they frequently overscore.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
perrystroikaPerryStroika
Rated 01 Jan 2023
56
27th
I can take about five minutes of Delillo dialogue before my eyes roll back in my head.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
xakkmasterXakkMaster
Rated 01 Jan 2023
65
34th
The neurotic cousin of Don't Look Up. It's pretty bizarre, even as satire. I liken it to a mashup of Spielberg (production wise) & Woody Allen (dialogue & character behavior). Baumbach usually does quirky very well, but seems to struggle with DeLillo's material. I initially saw the credits scene as a promo & felt that was misleading, as it's my favorite scene in the film but tonally different from the rest of the movie. Update February 2023, re: the situation in Ohio: Oh shit.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
closedmouthclosedmouth
Rated 01 Jan 2023
50
9th
Feel sorry for Baumbach, there was no way this was gonna work
Rated 01 Jan 2023
kuroelKuroel
Rated 31 Dec 2022
44
15th
The themes were cleverly interwoven throughout multiple plotlines but mostly White Noise felt like an overreaching attempt at cerebral comedy that only serves as wanking material for literacy snobs. Aggravating stage-playesque characters with a heavily dislikable directoral decision to have all the people talk on top of each other. They ended up being as disconnected from each other as they did for me as a viewer. Couldn’t get invested in any of it.
Rated 31 Dec 2022
aaautinAAAutin
Rated 31 Dec 2022
4
0th
(NATIONAL LAMPOON'S SUBURBAN VACATION)
Rated 31 Dec 2022
yamilvidalYamilVidal
Rated 10 Dec 2022
77
52nd
I enjoyed this movie but have a hard time telling why. Aesthetically is solid. It has some good comedy in it. It discusses mortality although it doesn't say anything interesting about it. It's just the right kind of absurd.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
jlfmJLFM
Rated 10 Dec 2022
72
59th
A mess in so many ways, but I was always at least interested and usually entertained. The second chapter is pretty clearly the best. It’s the only stretch of the movie that really feels like the pedal is on the gas; elsewhere, the proceedings are undeniably uneven. And yet, there’s still so much fun and intriguing stuff packed into this. I totally understand why so many people have suffered an allergic reaction to this movie, but I had a good time.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
grapeGrape
Rated 01 Sep 2024
69
30th
1 Setembre 2024 - Aquesta gran orquestració, detallisme i saturació d'idees em cansa més que abans. M'ha fet gràcia el moment del drogadicte i el de la monja. He connectat una mica amb la conversa entre ells. Però hi ha molta farfolla que pot ser suggestiva però em deixa indiferent. De tota manera, hi ha hagut prou sensació de viatge com per entretenir.
Rated 01 Sep 2024
deaddillydeaddilly
Rated 05 Aug 2024
75
59th
One of the better attempts at translating postmodernist American literature to the screen. Some amazingly detailed sets depicting consumerist America (the grocery store stuff was pure eye candy) and ripe with Delillo's hilariously astute observations. It runs into the unavoidable feeling of being overstuffed, feeling like less than the sum of its parts, but I suspect anyone who already enjoys this kind of literature to see this in its best light.
Rated 05 Aug 2024
vandelay1Vandelay1
Rated 12 Jan 2024
40
36th
watchable
Rated 12 Jan 2024
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 11 Aug 2023
70
65th
This Green Card to a satiric drive through of America does go off the goofy tracks, but I'm glad it was greenlighted. I am sad I can't put the score in the 80s, though.
Rated 11 Aug 2023
howler19howler19
Rated 06 Jul 2023
38
32nd
Some good dialogue which doesn't amount to much of anything.
Rated 06 Jul 2023
carlosproCarlospro
Rated 05 Jun 2023
70
45th
baguncita
Rated 05 Jun 2023
abunchofcatsABUNCHOFCATS
Rated 12 Mar 2023
65
21st
Just never seems to come together, I don't know what its missing. The unaffected way everyone behaves and moves through it maybe? Has its moments, the black cloud makes for some fantastic shots, the ending dance is silly, the scene at the dinner table where they refuse to acknowledge what's happening around them. Mostly just feels monotonous though, I dunno.
Rated 12 Mar 2023
nbpNBP
Rated 09 Mar 2023
7
47th
While "White Noise" falls short of being a masterpiece, it is still an engaging and thought-provoking film with excellent performances and sharp dialogue.
Rated 09 Mar 2023
ehk2ehk2
Rated 03 Mar 2023
63
82nd
nice job but I still think that this adaptation lags time. It was written for the capitalist lifeworld of 80s and we now live in a much much worser and a bit different (just think digitalisation) state/phase. Someone should have already done this 20, 30 years ago.
Rated 03 Mar 2023
matthagenmatthagen
Rated 01 Mar 2023
46
31st
White Noise gave me a few good laughs, and it has a lot on its mind, no doubt. Some scenes land, others completely miss, and the whole is an unfortunate scattered mess. It's an odd curiosity more than anything.
Rated 01 Mar 2023
lrampartllrampartl
Rated 22 Feb 2023
90
93rd
Wonderful, unpredictable but predictable, gorgeous, intriguing, confusing, odd, delightful. 21/FEB/2023
Rated 22 Feb 2023
spookymaskSpookyMask
Rated 13 Feb 2023
68
53rd
A buncha quirky shit happens independently of the other quirky shit that's happening.
Rated 13 Feb 2023
neonmanNeonman
Rated 05 Feb 2023
93
96th
A captivating and resonating film. I could dig the muted humour, so it made it easier for this monolithic, yet unassuming film to wash over me. The middle section is a doom-laden experience to watch, making the film's regular-feeling third act all the more startling, though likely will go down better on a rewatch. Some of the theatrics of it all are a bit much, verging on cringey, but it's worth it when a film like this takes so many risk with its tone and momentum.
Rated 05 Feb 2023
corbadCorbad
Rated 28 Jan 2023
70
53rd
Mostly a delightfully chaotic family comedy - its dialogue snappy, its design and conceits charmingly unreal - until it’s an unsteady existential drama, and unfortunately this latter format brings it home, and does so too late. The film is overlong and unbalanced, but comes out of the gate with tremendous spirit.
Rated 28 Jan 2023
ericamblerericambler
Rated 24 Jan 2023
60
24th
I wanted to like this more, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd much prefer experiencing this story in its literary form. A valiant effort was made to blend the zany and the meaningful, but aside from the movie's bracing middle portion--a family's kooky misadventures outrunning a biological disaster--it's kind of a solipsistic snooze.
Rated 24 Jan 2023
mrcinemaMr.Cinema
Rated 21 Jan 2023
56
20th
Lower than it was expected!!!
Rated 21 Jan 2023
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 21 Jan 2023
66
30th
Change of pace for Baumbach, taking on existentially satirical subject matter; for at least the first half, the tension between his usual stylistic tendencies and the mismatched subject matter is intriguing, bolstered by Driver and Gerwig's performances, who ooze the 80s without succumbing to caricature. Unfortunately, Baumbach is unable to flesh out the more intriguing story implications, especially relating to 80s consumerism and “self-help”, which leaves the final act fizzling out to nothing.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
mspraguemsprague
Rated 18 Jan 2023
65
45th
Very unusual. Entertaining, great cast.
Rated 18 Jan 2023
sproostsproost
Rated 17 Jan 2023
75
79th
The wordless car-in-the-river scene had me cracking up for real and i watched it a few times. This is a very unBaumbachy film. It's jumpy and organic as i know his work, but takes on issues and subjects that go well beyond the familiar scope of (failed) human interactions and that's refreshing and the absurdism is often funny. I feel a little steam is lost in the end, and especially the very end where the grocery store choreography act didn't do it for me.
Rated 17 Jan 2023
kavuKavu
Rated 17 Jan 2023
79
65th
Enjoyable in its weirdness, quite funny quite often, and overall well done.
Rated 17 Jan 2023
war_machineWar Machine
Rated 15 Jan 2023
60
25th
Wholefamdeliveringdialogueliltooweird+contrastelvishitlersmoms+familyisthecradleoftheworld'smisinformation+ijustfeardeathmorethaniloveyou
Rated 15 Jan 2023
buttercupbuttercup
Rated 10 Jan 2023
6
35th
why so theatrical
Rated 10 Jan 2023
gabrielpGabriel_p
Rated 09 Jan 2023
30
3rd
Here's how I imagine how the pitch for this movie went: - Ok listen I have a terrible idea for a movie. The plot goes absolutely nowhere, it's filled to the brim with inane dialogue, the characters are quite obnoxious, and you have to wait until the very end to have any clue as to what message the movie is trying to convey and even then it makes no sense whatsoever! - Mmm I'm not convinced.. - It's 140 min long - SOLD
Rated 09 Jan 2023
doooomdoooom
Rated 07 Jan 2023
76
63rd
that chili fried chicken tho 👌🤤
Rated 07 Jan 2023
krulikkrulik
Rated 06 Jan 2023
65
0th
Almost unwatchable. Weird for the sake of it, nothing behind it. Not funny, not relatable, not one good thing in the movie. The elder son was ok.
Rated 06 Jan 2023
videoetronVideoetron
Rated 03 Jan 2023
62
53rd
A strange movie. In hindsight, it feels more like maybe 4-5 episodes of a tv series due to the different scope of the different plots and the more banal parts in between. It took a bit of time to get used to it while in the middle of it however
Rated 03 Jan 2023
rittehRitteh
Rated 03 Jan 2023
42
21st
LOL, what did I just watch? I was OK with Act 1, liked Act 2, hated Act 3. Weird end credits where you can tell the director emphasized over and over to not look at the camera.
Rated 03 Jan 2023
theristheris
Rated 01 Jan 2023
21
4th
Waste of 2 hours
Rated 01 Jan 2023
mcproustMCProust
Rated 30 Dec 2022
82
57th
I suspect this will turn off fans of the novel due to adaptational differences (the film is a period piece and a pastiche of the schmaltzy 1980s tentpole sci-fi extravaganza; the book was a contemporary academic satire) and leave viewers who were unfamiliar with it a little baffled. All in all, though, it works surprisingly well, maybe because the titular & multivalent metaphor of "white noise" (death itself? Pascalian distraction?) is particularly suited to the medium.
Rated 30 Dec 2022
doyler29doyler29
Rated 14 Dec 2022
60
23rd
There's really a lot to like. I found it to be intermittently quite funny. The performances are great, especially Don Cheadle as a fellow professor trying to establish a specialization in Elvis Studies. It's a hugely ambitious film with a unique visual style. I only wish I could say I actually liked it.
Rated 14 Dec 2022

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