Is White Noise actually good?

White Noise sits in the 9.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 9.4% of them.

How does White Noise compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, White Noise lands in the 10.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is White Noise's score based on?

260 calibrated reviewers stand behind White Noise's score.

2005

global pct

9.4

Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s

White Noise

Name: White Noise
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Released: 2005

Scored from 260 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

9.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

10.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

1.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

260 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his wife's sudden death, architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) is approached by a stranger who claims to have received messages from her through Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) - audio recordings that supposedly capture voices of the dead. Drawn deeper into the practice, Jonathan becomes obsessed with contacting her, only to discover that not every voice reaching out from the other side has benevolent intentions.

White Noise (2005) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and mystery genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,163 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 260 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 269 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside.