Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
30
(32 sources)
30
(32 sources)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A not-bad ghost story that marks a comeback of sorts for its star, Michael Keaton, who hasn't top-billed a movie for almost a decade. Read Full Review » -
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Geoffrey Sax, a British television director making his theatrical debut, lavishes enough craft on the paranormal thriller to send more than a few chills down the spine. Read Full Review » -
50
Dallas Observer
There's nothing at all scary about White Noise, which goes bump in the night so often it's easy to mistake it for clumsy. Read Full Review » -
50
Christian Science Monitor
Beneath its regrettably banal surface, White Noise raises the creepy question of whether intimidating, even malign forces may be lurking in those fancy gadgets that fill our living rooms and offices. Read Full Review » -
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
But Keaton is a mistake. He's an actor with an innate sense of irony firmly grounded in the here and now. Even as Batman, skepticism was his forte; true belief falls way outside his range. Read Full Review » -
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Entertainment Weekly
What might have been a rote horror exercise becomes instead a twitchy, mannered, often amusing rote horror exercise. Read Full Review » -
40
Variety
An unsatisfying supernatural thriller with an effectively unsettling build-up and a frustratingly muddled pay-off. Read Full Review » -
40
Village Voice
White Noise vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses. Read Full Review » -
40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
It's a testament to Michael Keaton's fine lead performance that White Noise doesn't come off as laughably preposterous. Read Full Review » -
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Charlotte Observer
It's yet another warm, fuzzy, New-Age tale that cozies us into believing the grave doesn't mean oblivion. Read Full Review » -
38
New York Daily News
The unhappy dead populate Geoffrey Sax's third-rate thriller White Noise like a pre-Christmas crowd at a suburban mall. This is a shame, since they are neither scary nor sad, and less likely to haunt an audience than simply bore them to death. Read Full Review » -
38
Chicago Tribune
In White Noise, Hollywood and Michael Keaton try to make a decent thriller out of ghosts in the machine but come up with lousy reception and static. Read Full Review » -
30
The New York Times
A film worthy neither of Mr. Keaton's talents nor even a desperate horror fan's attention. Read Full Review » -
30
Los Angeles Times
The movie straitjackets Keaton into a humorless, table-pounding role. Read Full Review » -
30
Washington Post
Hampered by Niall Johnson's script, which is often confusing, muddy and ultimately cliche-ridden. Read Full Review » -
30
Austin Chronicle
There's not much more to this poorly scripted thriller than exactly one well-done shock moment and Michael Keaton's eyebrows, but, to be fair, Keaton's brows have carried three Tim Burton films nearly on their own, so don't let this dissuade you from seeing the film. Read Full Review » -
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USA Today
White Noise is the celluloid equivalent of a bad cell phone connection. Read Full Review » -
25
New York Post
Poor Keaton, a capable actor who was absent from the screen for several years, is hamstrung by the material even more than in last year's dismal "First Daughter." Read Full Review » -
25
Miami Herald
It is a grim and monotonous affair despite the overkill of bad guys -- a trio of evil spirits plus a bonus serial killer -- mixed with a few cheap shocks futilely intended to make the audience jump. Read Full Review » -
25
Baltimore Sun
Dramatically, it's a ghoul's parade of grieving folk finding solace and then danger through a tenuous connection to the after-life. Read Full Review » -
25
Premiere
A clumsy, dreadfully preposterous and pedestrian thriller that seems to believe loud noises are the same as good frights. Read Full Review » -
25
ReelViews
White Noise has nothing. You'll have a better time staying home, tuning your TV to a station that doesn't carry a local signal, and staring. Read Full Review » -
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LA Weekly
No, this isn't an adaptation of Don DeLillo's great 1985 novel, but a muddled talking-ghosts movie. Read Full Review » -
12
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