Critics are giving British director Geoffrey Sax's supernatural thriller White Noise a lot of static. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times suggests that moviegoers would be better served by catching one of the several excellent films that were released last month, which are likely to be "far superior to what generally slinks into theaters this unhappy month, including White Noise, a laugh-laced cheap thrill." Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News dismisses the movie as a "third-rate thriller" that is "less likely to haunt an audience than simply bore them to death." John Anderson in Newsday comments that Sax "has put a novel idea to work: Keep the audience as confused as the hero." And Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe regards the movie as "a moronic exercise in supernatural claptrap."