Critic Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

Has a low-key tone that works in its favor for a time.

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.

Does feature one or two jump-out-of-your-skin moments.

What might have been a rote horror exercise becomes instead a twitchy, mannered, often amusing rote horror exercise.

Boring and fundamentally silly.

An unsatisfying supernatural thriller with an effectively unsettling build-up and a frustratingly muddled pay-off.