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Armond White

Armond White

Agrees with the Tomatometer 52% of the time.

Publications:
CityArts , New York Press , NPR's Fresh Air
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online
Total Reviews:
574

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
69% Life During Wartime (2010) " Life During Wartime might be the toughest American movie of 2010. Its audacity confirms Solondz's ingenuity and thematic focus." — New York Press
Posted Jul 21, 2010
81% Despicable Me (2010) " Despicable Me works as adult comedy in the same intelligent sense as Dr. Seuss rhymes." — New York Press
Posted Jul 14, 2010
96% Restrepo (2010) " Their unsentimental portraits of platoon life match harsh deployment to fast, gentle camaraderie." — New York Press
Posted Jun 25, 2010
9% Grown Ups (2010) " Cheerful and surprisingly heartfelt." — New York Press
Posted Jun 25, 2010
66% Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) " It embarrasses just about every other piece of filmmaking around." — New York Press
Posted Jun 23, 2010
12% Jonah Hex (2010) " It reexamines assumptions of good and evil-morality tale vs, trite entertainment-by confronting the hideous compromises people make with social conventions and their own desperation." — New York Press
Posted Jun 18, 2010
70% Ondine (2010) " Its real-life, sensuous imagery prompts more than thought: Jordan's updated Celtic myth provokes erotic, spiritual consciousness. It's an adult fantasy whose beauty invites both dreamlike surrender and rationality -- as the best cinema always does." — New York Press
Posted Jun 2, 2010
74% Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010) " Jeunet's elegantly efficient filmmaking is not impersonal technique -- like Ridley Scott or even David Fincher -- it's panache." — New York Press
Posted May 26, 2010
96% Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961) " Though rarely discussed as either a love story or a political film, Breathless maintains fascination because it is equally both." — New York Press
Posted May 26, 2010
67% Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2010) " The Picasso-Braque connection shows the unembarrassed impulse to study vision and philosophy through art -- not trite, childish, "Lookit!" exploitation." — New York Press
Posted May 26, 2010
64% Two in the Wave (Deux de la Vague) (2010) " Two in the Wave makes for a richly detailed footnote to a golden age and stillgolden principles. But it's also a winning and necessary corrective to our current barbarous culture." — New York Press
Posted May 19, 2010
51% Holy Rollers (2010) " It's serious where Maria Full of Grace was full of crap." — New York Press
Posted May 19, 2010
84% Looking for Eric (2010) " Loach has not shown such empathy since Kes, his 1970 film about a boy's relationship to a falcon." — New York Press
Posted May 12, 2010
79% Mother and Child (2010) " When a filmmaker does everything right, as in Rodrigo García's Mother and Child, you may be watching a masterpiece." — New York Press
Posted May 5, 2010
87% Please Give (2010) " Please Give is specific about its middle-class, white, Manhattan characters but it's also universal in the way one social class' anxieties are understood rather than simply celebrated." — New York Press
Posted Apr 28, 2010
49% The Losers (2010) " The Losers is testimony to the power of movie stars because this cast offers eyegasmic distraction from the film's own foolishness." — New York Press
Posted Apr 21, 2010
89% Teza () " Gerima opposes the utter triviality of movies about black peoples' lives. He's made a deeply-felt drama about the complexity of the diaspora experience-a connection to Africa, the Mother continent, that gets totally ignored in most films we see..." — New York Press
Posted Apr 14, 2010
74% Handsome Harry (2010) " Director Bette Gordon presents the actors' sensitivity with tactful insight and appreciation reminiscent of Katherine Dieckmann's very fine Diggers." — New York Press
Posted Apr 14, 2010
48% La MISSION (2010) " Writer-director Peter Bratt places Che at the center of a multiethnic community that illustrates how pervasive and entranced are notions of masculinity." — New York Press
Posted Apr 14, 2010
62% When You're Strange (2010) " It's uselessly romantic and infuriatingly revisionist. Ironically, When You're Strange contains DiCillo's best filmmaking." — New York Press
Posted Apr 7, 2010
28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " Leterrier certainly shows a better sense of meaningful, economic narrative than the mess that Peter Jackson made of the interminable, incoherent Lord of the Rings trilogy." — New York Press
Posted Apr 7, 2010
20% The Last Song (2010) " Cyrus' acting ability makes Veronica's emotional make-over work." — New York Press
Posted Mar 31, 2010
53% The Thorn in the Heart (2010) " Gondry makes you look into the screen -- makes you invest -- during an era when most moviemakers simply want to distract you." — New York Press
Posted Mar 31, 2010
78% Bluebeard (2010) " Breillat's approach distinguishes her as a provocative filmmaker -- not always satisfactory but always genuine." — New York Press
Posted Mar 24, 2010
69% The Runaways (2010) " Sigismondi's script captures the mixed-motives of songs like the ingenious "Cherry Bomb," flirting with delinquency and culture shock." — New York Press
Posted Mar 17, 2010
92% Vincere (2010) " Vincere (which translates as "win" or "vanquish") is a triumphant combination of personal and political filmmaking." — New York Press
Posted Mar 17, 2010
91% The Secret of Kells (2010) " Its saving grace is directors Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey's decision to follow the style of lluminated manuscripts.The movie glows." — New York Press
Posted Mar 3, 2010
71% The Crazies (2010) " True, director Eisner's reboot of Romero's 1973 original has absolutely no political resonance. But it's better that way." — New York Press
Posted Mar 3, 2010
67% The Yellow Handkerchief (2010) " No movie nominated for an Oscar this year boasts acting as fine as The Yellow Handkerchief." — New York Press
Posted Feb 24, 2010
90% Easier with Practice (2009) " Alvarez's sincere, probing look at male inexperience creates a modest but bold contrast to the age of snark. His shock of recognition is a humanist landmark." — New York Press
Posted Feb 24, 2010
37% From Paris with Love (2010) " Giddily succinct in ways literal-minded folk will not appreciate, From Paris With Love is an object lesson in the realities of what the Obama administration once euphemized as "man-made disaster."" — New York Press
Posted Feb 3, 2010
58% Edge of Darkness (2010) " Gibson roots Craven in credible middle-aged fatigue as if to prove he's a truer artist than his haters claim." — New York Press
Posted Jan 28, 2010
100% The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1962) " The Bad Sleep Well's ground-breaking concept shows Kurosawa's uncompromised ambition." — New York Press
Posted Jan 20, 2010
70% The Last Station (2010) " Plummer and Mirren find theatrical sparks; they enliven Hoffman's thesis about Tolstoy's beliefs and his contradictory, actual love life." — New York Press
Posted Jan 13, 2010
60% Ricky (2009) " In Ozon's distinctively eccentric style, Ricky applies modern skepticism to the prospect of parthenogenesis (based on an American short story by Rose Tremain), then deepens the concept." — New York Press
Posted Dec 22, 2009
85% A Single Man (2009) " It is the year's most subtle movie acting and the finest performance of Firth's career." — New York Press
Posted Dec 9, 2009
62% Brothers (2009) " Sheridan declines the dissociative artiness and blame that hipster filmmakers use to exempt themselves from today's wars." — New York Press
Posted Dec 9, 2009
66% The Blind Side (2009) " All Bullock's films promote an edifying sense of human experience -- she has an instinct for what people like to see -- and that gift makes The Blind Side the perfect, God-sent antidote to Precious." — New York Press
Posted Nov 18, 2009
93% Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) " Fantastic Mr. Fox renews one's sense of animation's possibilities." — New York Press
Posted Nov 11, 2009
81% Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) " Spielberg's failure to engage Jackson on a movie-musical project (Peter Pan or Earth Song or Childhood) deprived the world of a possible Minnelli-level masterpiece." — New York Press
Posted Oct 29, 2009
19% Gentlemen Broncos (2009) " This is personal filmmaking, surveying the private emotions that generally embarrass people or make us feel out of step -- a daring proposition in an era that frantically insists upon marketable conformity." — New York Press
Posted Oct 28, 2009
20% Motherhood (2009) " Revealing the contradictions of this postfeminist age, Motherhood is good enough to recall Up the Sandbox, the elegant and eccentric 1972 response to feminism, race, class and media..." — New York Press
Posted Oct 22, 2009
73% Where the Wild Things Are (2009) " The most daring kid's-movie adaptation since Altman's still-avant-garde Popeye from 1980." — New York Press
Posted Oct 14, 2009
78% Bronson (2009) " Hardy's portrayal is more than a real-life impersonation of Bronson; it realizes the Stunt Movie opportunity to present an actor's thoroughly romantic admiration of force." — New York Press
Posted Oct 7, 2009
89% A Serious Man (2009) " A Serious Man rejects the bland Jewishness of Judd Apatow films; it's similar to the black filmmakers' project in Next Day Air, in which social stereotypes get burlesqued, yet are used to reveal an essentially moral exercise." — New York Press
Posted Sep 30, 2009
29% Irene in Time (2009) " Against this Judd Apatow era, Jaglom's exploratory filmmaking requires a personal response unhindered by TV formula. His semi-improvised vignettes go in unexpected places, often profoundly emotional directions..." — New York Press
Posted Sep 23, 2009
20% Rage (2009) " Eschewing the lazy carelessness of so many misguided digital enthusiasts, Potter's rigor becomes a refreshing reminder of true cinematic values." — New York Press
Posted Sep 23, 2009
96% 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) " Precisely, rigorously, technically, 35 Shots of Rum is a masterpiece." — New York Press
Posted Sep 16, 2009
100% Odd Man Out (1947) " This is not director Carol Reed's best film (ranking behind The Third Man,The Stars Look Down, Outcast of the Islands, Night Train to Munich), but it impressively displays Reed's command of image and atmosphere." — New York Press
Posted Sep 2, 2009
87% Amreeka (2009) " Amreeka isn't great, but it's a relief when a movie that touches on America's post-9/11 unease regarding Muslims and the Arab world isn't full of condemnation." — New York Press
Posted Sep 2, 2009
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