White Noise Stayed True to the Book. That Might Be Why It’s Such a Mediocre Film.

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Anyone adapting a movie from a book faces a dilemma: stay true to the book and potentially alienate a wider audience — or diverge from the text and leave an angry mob of bookish fans in your wake.

Admittedly, Noah Baumbach’s screen adaptation of Don Delillo’s White Noise stays relatively true to the novel. And though it pains…