Movie · 2022 · Comedy, Drama · 2h 16m · R · English
Curator score: 2.2/10 (244.3K ratings)
You can’t hear it if it's everywhere.
Overview
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.
Ratings
Curator score: 2.2/10
IMDb: 5.7/10
Letterboxd: 2.99/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
Metacritic: 66
TMDB: 5.6/10
Director
Noah Baumbach
Production
Heyday Films, NB/GG Pictures, A24
Cast
Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André 3000, Sam Gold, Carlos Jacott, Lars Eidinger, Bill Camp, Barbara Sukowa, Francis Jue, J. David Hinze, Gideon Glick, Madison Gaughan, Douglas Brodax, Carly Brodax, Jill Brodax
Where to watch
Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A sharp, strange, and frequently funny adaptation that turns apocalypse anxiety into deadpan family satire. It’s more interesting as an idea machine and mood piece than as a fully satisfying narrative, but the performances and visual invention make it worth a look if you enjoy offbeat, literary, genre-bending films.
Best for
Viewers who like absurdist satire and intellectual comedy
Fans of stylized, literary adaptations
People interested in existential dread, consumer culture, and media panic
Audiences open to slow-burn, deliberately artificial filmmaking
Skip if
You want a straightforward plot or emotional realism
You dislike tonal whiplash and self-conscious dialogue
You prefer tight, conventional disaster movies
You’re not in the mood for a film that values ideas over momentum
Overview
White Noise is a slippery, genre-hopping adaptation that treats catastrophe as both punchline and existential crisis. It has the deadpan rhythms of a family comedy, the visual scale of a disaster movie, and the chilly detachment of a museum piece about modern anxiety. That combination won’t work for everyone, but it gives the film a distinctive identity.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Jay (3★) · 7148 likes
adam driver standing in the corner at the party: they dont know im a leading expert on hitler studies
Karsten (3★) · 2866 likes
wish this was better, adam driver is the best comedic actor we have
roby (5★) · 2609 likes
The best episode of the Simpsons ever
Jeremy (4★) · 2171 likes
dawggg wtf happening in ohio bro 😭💀
davidehrlich (3.5★) · 1767 likes
You might think it would be strange to see a mega-budget Noah Baumbach movie complete with CGI explosions, a Spielbergian kind of holy terror, and even one sadistically drawn-out jump-scare dream sequence, but the oddest thing about “White Noise” is its persistent sense of déjà vu. Not just the déjà vu of watching such a faithful adaptation of any Great American Novel — although there’s plenty of that — but also the déjà vu that’s supposedly caused by exposure to… more You might think it would be strange to see a mega-budget Noah Baumbach movie complete with CGI explosions, a Spielbergian kind of holy terror, and even one sadistically drawn-out jump-scare dream sequence, but the oddest thing about “White Noise” is its persistent sense of déjà vu. Not just the déjà vu of watching such a faithful adaptation of any Great American Novel — although there’s plenty of that — but also the déjà vu that’s supposedly caused by exposure to… more
2001 · Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 1h 54m · R · Curator 8.7/10 (3.2M ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
A suburban fever dream that mixes dread, satire, and metaphysical unease with a cult-movie sensibility.