'White Noise' Review: It Sucks

Baumbach’s adaptation largely follows the contours of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel of the same name. Adam Driver stars as Jack Gladney, professor at the midwestern College-on-the-Hill, and inventor of what he calls “Hitler studies.” Jack is currently married to Babette (Greta Gerwig), a nominally stay-at-home mother to the various kids from their former marriages. Across the course of an academic year, Jack and Babette will confront, separately and together, the great fear of death which burns at the center of their small town existence, threatening to upend their marriage and the family they have cobbled together.