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    Movie review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Nov 28, 2022 5 minutes
    Left to right, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Dean Moore/ Henry Moore as Wilder and Adam Driver as Jack Raffey Cassidy as Denise, May Nivola as Steffie and Sam Nivola as Heinrich in "White Noise."

    "White Noise," Noah Baumbach's jittery and inventive adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, begins with what you might call a love letter to cinema. We've had a lot of those recently, but this one — a college lecture on car crashes in American movies — is appreciably sharper, funnier and more specific than most. As his students watch a montage of fiery vehicular explosions, professor Murray Jay Siskind (a wonderful Don Cheadle) implores them to look past the violence and see the spirit of optimism and enterprise pulsing underneath: "There's a constant upgrading of tools, skills, a meeting of challenges," he marvels. "The movie breaks away from complicated human passions to show us something elemental, something loud and fiery, head-on."

    Baumbach, a specialist in complicated human passions, appears to have taken the professor's enthusiasm to

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