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Critics / Armond White
Armond White

    ARMOND WHITE

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 50% of the time.

    Publications: New York Press, NPR's Fresh Air

    Critics' Group: New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online

    Total Reviews: 273

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    Rotten

    Fresh
    70%

    Bruno (2009)

    " The fallacy that Baron Cohen’s comedy is politically pertinent derives from its pandering to Lefty biases." — New York Press

    Posted Jul 8, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    92%

    Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

    " Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is really a lament for contemporary Jewish comedy’s loss of ethnic confidence. Kempner’s nostalgia becomes irrefutable in those faded images of Berg’s beaming face and discreet intelligence." — New York Press

    Posted Jul 8, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    81%

    Humpday (2009)

    " Humpday typifies the low-level indie film where characters talk out silly ideas they don’t believe in anyway, just the pop confusion in their heads." — New York Press

    Posted Jul 8, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    84%

    Tony Manero (2009)

    " Cinephilia -- the smart-about-movies concept about the love of film -- has been so distorted in contemporary movie culture that it has led to the repugnant Chilean film Tony Manero." — New York Press

    Posted Jul 1, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    66%

    Public Enemies (2009)

    " Mann not only lacks the narrative efficiency of old genre filmmaking, Public Enemies’ look inspires the opposite of movie love." — New York Press

    Posted Jul 1, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    97%

    The Hurt Locker (2009)

    " So far, the best fiction films about the Iraq War are Nick Bloomfield’s Battle for Haditha, Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave and John Moore’s allegorical Flight of the Phoenix remake. It’s sufficient praise to say The Hurt Locker joins that short list." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 24, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    19%

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is more proof [Bay] has a great eye for scale and a gift for visceral amazement." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 24, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    78%

    The Hangover (2009)

    " Rising-star Bradley Cooper and gang represent the dirtbag element that has become acceptable in contemporary comedy." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    46%

    The Proposal (2009)

    " Every scene between Bullock and Reynolds only suggests how fine they might be in good circumstances." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    46%

    Whatever Works (2009)

    " Ten years after his great expectoration of bile in Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen comes up with Whatever Works -- the most shameless, cynically titled Hollywood con job since the days of Billy Wilder." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 17, 2009

    Fresh

    N/A

    Raging Sun, Raging Sky (2009)

    " [Director] Hernández further develops his ideas on form, romanticism and spirituality. His images are beautiful and intriguing enough to win the popular audience he deserves." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 10, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    50%

    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

    " Pelham 123 exploits urban anxiety without relief or understanding. Using exacerbation as entertainment, it is simply an I HATE NY ad." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 10, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    62%

    Tetro (2009)

    " Clearly, Coppola needs to re-read O’Neill and stop trying to be Soderbergh." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 10, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    92%

    Séraphine (2008)

    " Next to Demme’s expressionism and Troell’s realism, Provost’s good film is banal." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 3, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    66%

    Away We Go (2009)

    " Away We Go is as calculated as any summer tentpole blockbuster." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 3, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    28%

    Land of the Lost (2009)

    " Land of the Lost sheds its TV-formula origins as a 1970s network series and becomes glib fun." — New York Press

    Posted Jun 3, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    65%

    Zabriskie Point (1970)

    " Almost 40 years later, Zabriskie Point exists to teach us more exact and sensitive perceptions about a cultural moment that its original audience was too close to appropriately observe." — New York Press

    Posted May 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    27%

    Dance Flick (2009)

    " It isn’t highbrow -- or encumbered by scruples -- but the Wayanses retain their vulgar, adolescent derision of sex, class and race. In this bow down to Hollywood millennium, their irreverence is almost subversive." — New York Press

    Posted May 27, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    97%

    Up (2009)

    " All this deflated cinema and Pixarism mischaracterizes what good animation can be (as in Coraline, Monster House, Chicken Little, Teacher’s Pet, The Iron Giant). Up’s aesthetic failure stems from its emotional letdown." — New York Press

    Posted May 27, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    50%

    Easy Virtue (2009)

    " [Elliott] tends toward camp, yet respects Coward’s light sentiment (and pays homage to Ealing Studios’ genteel tradition)." — New York Press

    Posted May 20, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    58%

    The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

    " It’s a millennial dirge for people who don’t know the spiritual/materialist crisis Godard predicted in Nouvelle Vague." — New York Press

    Posted May 20, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    32%

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    " McG’s boyish sensationalism is inoffensive, justified by paying attention to how Wright preserves an unlikely human essence. Worthington is a find." — New York Press

    Posted May 20, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    37%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " This overwrought chase/final-countdown movie is as banal as the genre comes. It’s not a well-made action film; it’s just expensively made." — New York Press

    Posted May 13, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    93%

    Summer Hours (2009)

    " For André Téchiné and Patrice Chéreau, who have specialized in probing/expansive family melodramas, Summer Hours would be a trifle. For Olivier Assayas, it’s almost a masterpiece." — New York Press

    Posted May 13, 2009

    Fresh

    Rotten
    18%

    Next Day Air (2009)

    " Filmgoers who think outside the artmovie box will discover that the artful and enjoyable Next Day Air offers an episode of 21st-century black American life that August Wilson never got to." — New York Press

    Posted May 13, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    76%

    Outrage (2009)

    " By Republican-bashing on big topics like gay marriage and AIDS-funding, [director Kirby] Dick avoids exploring ideas. Outrage diminishes crucial, non-partisan gay-identity issues of fear, guilt and self-acceptance." — New York Press

    Posted May 6, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    36%

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

    " Each CGI set piece erases distance, space, weight, gravity and wit. It’s empty, soulless action -- visual noise." — New York Press

    Posted May 6, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    95%

    Star Trek (2009)

    " This Star Trek sells cuteness, sentimentality and explosive F/X as if Starship Troopers, Minority Report, Mission to Mars or even Blade Runner or The Matrix (all visionary standard-setters) never happened." — New York Press

    Posted May 6, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    18%

    Obsessed (2009)

    " Even as junk, Obsessed isn’t kick-ass enough. The wind-up to Sharon’s explosion takes too long, and director Steve Shill can’t stage a real donnybrook." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 29, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    92%

    Revanche (2009)

    " Through intelligent formalism, [director] Spielmann crafts a penetrating perception of the world and human experience." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 29, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    33%

    The Limits of Control (2009)

    " Jim Jarmsuch has been responsible for many of the dullest hours ever spent at the movies. His new The Limits of Control is no different." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 29, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    41%

    Fighting (2009)

    " Too bad the boxing blueprint doesn’t provide Montiel the profound insight of Walter Hill’s Hard Times and Undisputed which perfectly combined class, ethnicity and existentialism into the two best boxing movies ever made." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 22, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    86%

    Tyson (2009)

    " Tyson is a mirror portrait that gets under our skin. Through film, [Director James] Toback achieves what even his mentor Norman Mailer’s magnificent writing on boxing was never able to accomplish." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 22, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    55%

    The Soloist (2009)

    " An artistic failure from conception, it’s British director Joe 'Steadicam' Wright’s torrent of self-righteousness equal to the frequently referenced Hurricane Katrina." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 22, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    100%

    Leon Morin, Priest (1961)

    " This extraordinary drama doesn’t just play games with sexual disorientation and philosophical argument; it’s also implicitly about life turned upside down." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    92%

    Every Little Step (2009)

    " Reality TV has squandered the great impulse toward cultural-political exploration by turning democracy and the documentary into bread and circuses. This tragedy defeats Every Little Step, the first doc to chronicle A Chorus Line’s creation" — New York Press

    Posted Apr 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    85%

    State of Play (2009)

    " If instances of dishonesty, cover-ups and heroic loners seem at all surprising, then you haven’t watched TV in the past 30 years -- or the BBC series where State of Play originated." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 15, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    51%

    Observe and Report (2009)

    " Violence in the unimaginatively titled Observe and Report is loud and blunt -- making it the ugliest, most hate-filled comedy since Borat." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 8, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    98%

    Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)

    " After 1984’s heavy-metal satire This Is Spinal Tap started the mockumentary craze, most documentary makers pandered to audiences through sarcasm and propaganda. But the true-life heavy-metal Anvil finally -- beautifully -- restores the genre." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 8, 2009

    Rotten

    Rotten
    28%

    Fast & Furious (2009)

    " Director Justin Lin doesn’t have the love of design that made the 2001 The Fast and the Furious a deliriously beautiful noir." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 1, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    88%

    Adventureland (2009)

    " Adventureland adds appreciable humanity to the genre, improving the adolescent egotism inflected by Dazed and Confused and the vulgar excesses of Superbad." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 1, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    93%

    Sugar (2009)

    " Such indie banality -- linked to liberal message-mongering -- proves Fleck-Boden go into a slump long before rookie Miguel." — New York Press

    Posted Apr 1, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    72%

    Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

    " Just because digital 3-D technology is improving doesn’t mean animated movies are getting better." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 25, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    97%

    Hearts and Minds (1975)

    " Davis’ visual argument overwhelms rationality.This was the beginning of Red/Blue antagonism -- turning benighted patriotism against an opponent’s humanity." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 25, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    68%

    Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009)

    " Paul H-O might have exposed “dealers” who were agents, publicists, protectors -- the real movers and shakers of the culture industry -- but his romantic wounds get in the way." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 25, 2009

    Fresh

    Fresh
    77%

    Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009)

    " A genuine Felliniesque procession of the rich, powerful and over-awed." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 18, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    82%

    I Love You, Man (2009)

    " From its snarky title on down, everything about I Love You, Man ignores the complexities of male identity." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 18, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    66%

    Duplicity (2009)

    " Duplicity should have been titled Venality." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 18, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    90%

    Hunger (2008)

    " As prison-movie machismo, Walter Hill’s Undisputed is better; as visual art, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments is superior." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 18, 2009

    Fresh

    N/A

    The Girl on the Train (2009)

    " It’s a love story from the uniquely expansive -- and inquiring -- point of view that makes Téchiné France’s most fascinating contemporary filmmaker." — New York Press

    Posted Mar 11, 2009
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