White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022) novel by Don DeLillo; Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle
Paul Attard:
White Noise is a book filled with big ideas—about rampant consumerism, impending death, the dumbing-down of all public information, and so on—but Baumbach’s adaptation rarely articulates any of them with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to the easy exaggerations that DeLillo peddled in the name of satire, which, while maybe fresh back in 1985, ring completely hollow today. Even if Baumbach is self-aware enough to recognize the dated nature of his material, it only ever manifests in aloof and obvious ways. Slant.
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