White Noise: Netflix and Noah Baumbach reunite in overstuffed adaptation of impossible novel, starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver

There's nothing quite so rapturous in White Noise – Noah Baumbach's fidgety, fastidious adaptation of Don DeLillo's seminal 1985 novel – as its final sequence. But there's something infectious about the delirious glee with which Baumbach pleads his case – in one of the only scenes that extends DeLillo's book into truly exciting terrain. All of this sets an ominous stage for Baumbach's film – produced through Netflix, arguably the current manifestation of DeLillo's nightmares. But as the pace picks up, Jack and Babette – in Baumbach's version – remain strangely limp, their deadpan anxieties chafing against the ecological apocalypse of their surroundings.