The film is sharply funny, eerily timely, and loaded with movie stars. So why is this blockbuster-size event falling flat?

The Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel makes a thoroughly American spectacle of suffering.

Along with his meticulous, magnificent production team, director Noah Baumbach deciphers, rearranges, peels, but also slices, dices and more

Noah Baumbach’s fitful adaptation of Don DeLillo book is sometimes funny, sometimes mad, sometimes flaccid

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

'White Noise' rarely articulates the book’s ideas with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to easy exaggerations.

No one said it would be easy to translate Don DeLillo's sprawling novel to the screen.

Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic has long been regarded as impossible to adapt. Noah Baumbach’s attempt for Netflix does nothing to change that.

This adaptation never quite comes together despite strong performances.

Noah Baumbach goes big but falls short in White Noise

Anthony Lane reviews Rian Johnson’s sequel to “Knives Out,” Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel “White Noise,” and Florian Zeller’s “The Son.”

Noah Baumbach’s long-awaited adaptation of the dated Don DeLillo novel opens the Venice Film Festival

Noah Baumbach's adaptation of the DeLillo novel is too cute, lacks menace.

Noah Baumbach's uncanny Netflix adaptation of "White Noise" suggests he might have been too perfect a fit for his source material.

White Noise holds up a mirror to contemporary America, forcing a self-examination that both amuses and terrifies.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in 'White Noise,' Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig go deep into a 1980s fever dream in Noah Baumbach's intriguing but uneven adaptation of 'White Noise,' a brilliant, impossible novel.

The director can’t quite crack his first-ever adaptation, which brings a notoriously unfilmable book to Netflix.

Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel is a story about the fear of death and the nature of love in a consumer society. Or something like that.

Certain literary works feel destined for adaptation; with Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic White Noise, published in 1985, it was surely inevitable. Inevitable in the sense of it being a likely American cultural heritage project, brought into cinema after its reputation solidified instead of the Reagan years in which it takes place and was released. And

Film critic Peter Travers shares his review of director Noah Baumbach's new film "White Noise," starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle and more.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig reunite as a couple grappling with their fear of death in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.

There’s more than enough to like here when it comes to the unexpected blend of an author and filmmaker who one wouldn’t necessarily consider matches. Life is full of surprises, right?

It’s been said that bad books make good movies.

Even if Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s darkly funny 1985 novel doesn't entirely gel, it's clever, combative, entertaining stuff

Greta Gerwig returns to the screen in Noah Baumbach's latest. Read Empire's review.

Adam Driver and writer-director Noah Baumbach follow their collaboration on the dour “Marriage Story” with a considerably quirkier Netflix movie in “White Noise,” a faithful adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel that loses a great deal in translation. 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.

Adam Driver, as an arch professor, and Greta Gerwig, as his pill-popping wife, lead a college-town family on a collision course with topical disaster.

Don DeLillo’s “unfilmable” 1985 novel gets filmed by Noah Baumbach, who proves that it’s unfilmable.

The Venice Film Festival opened with Noah Baumbach's latest, which stars Adam Driver as a college professor-turned-action hero. It could be his best role yet, writes Nicholas Barber.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “unfilmable” 1985 novel.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in writer/director Noah Baumbach's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel White Noise, which premieres on Netflix in December.

Noah Baumbach’s laboriously quirky adaptation of DeLillo’s 1985 book can’t break free of the author’s voice

Noah Baumbach's latest might not be quite what you expect, but there's fun to be had with its many surprises.

Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig a wondrous couple in social satire that starts strong but loses steam.

'White Noise,' the Don DeLillo novel, was supposedly unfilmable. Noah Baumbach has done it, with help from Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle.

The 1985 novel has been described as "unfilmable." Baumbach wasn't deterred — and though the movie brims with terrific moments, his White Noise doesn't hold together as well as Don DeLillo's.

Despite some stumbles, "White Noise" comes across as a mischievous remix of Don DeLillo's novel, writes critic Chase Hutchinson.

Filmmaker Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo’s “unfilmable” satire tackling Hitler, Big Pharma and consumerism for Netflix, streaming Dec. 30.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in Noah Baumbach's restlessly inventive movie about consumerism, addiction, environmental ruin and other creeping anxieties of modern life.

Marriage Story star Adam Driver puts in a tour de force turn in Noah Baumbach's latest

There are touches of Steven Spielberg and David Lynch to Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the ‘unfilmable’ Don DeLillo classic