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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

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
85% Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) " Fascinating yet unsatisfactory." — New York Press
Posted Jul 23, 2010
62% Salt (2010) " It offends one's cinematic and political sensibilities just as carelessly as Syriana, Green Zone or Inglourious Basterds." — New York Press
Posted Jul 21, 2010
86% Inception (2010) " Like Grand Theft Auto's quasi-cinematic extension of noir and action-flick plots, Inception manipulates the digital audience's delectation for relentless subterfuge." — New York Press
Posted Jul 14, 2010
93% The Kids Are All Right (2010) " Cholodenko's films always falter through their obvious, self-congratulatory point-making." — New York Press
Posted Jul 7, 2010
12% Love Ranch (2010) " Love Ranch ("inspired by a true story") should have been satirical. Instead, it's just accidentally hilarious." — New York Press
Posted Jun 30, 2010
49% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) " Despite its horror movie premise, the Twilight series has become an ADHD sedative." — New York Press
Posted Jun 30, 2010
55% The Killer Inside Me (2010) " Winterbottom is in Mike Figgis mode, offering grossly violent filmnoir clichés, made of punching-bag-face make-up, gratuitous sex and Dark Knight nihilism..." — New York Press
Posted Jun 23, 2010
52% Knight & Day (2010) " There's no kinetic rhythm, no From Paris With Love energy or craft, no Jonah Hex wit -- only a distorted, distended James Bondish marathon chase." — New York Press
Posted Jun 23, 2010
99% Toy Story 3 (2010) " Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism." — New York Press
Posted Jun 18, 2010
81% I Am Love (2010) " Swinton always attempts bold milestones, but I Am Love makes one long to go back to the old landmarks." — New York Press
Posted Jun 16, 2010
83% Stonewall Uprising (2010) " Stonewall Uprising commits an unfortunate revisionism: Every person interviewed in the doc refocuses that legendary civil disobedience at the Stonewall Inn as a homogeneously white, mostly male memory. Stonewall Uprising's history is gentrified history." — New York Press
Posted Jun 16, 2010
47% The A-Team (2010) " The A-Team isn't "bad," it's just straightforward gimcrack and commercialism." — New York Press
Posted Jun 16, 2010
66% The Karate Kid (2010) " The Smiths aim for bigger box-office numbers by offering a secondhand fantasy that replaces academic hard work with the superficial amusement of martial arts self-defense." — New York Press
Posted Jun 9, 2010
91% Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) " Nothing -- not even daughter Melissa's assessment of all comedians as "damaged" -- validates this worshipful portrait of craven showbiz." — New York Press
Posted Jun 9, 2010
11% Killers (2010) " The film's awareness of subterfuge and assassination as contemporary habit represents a change in how people perceive loving, citizenship and morality." — New York Press
Posted Jun 9, 2010
74% Splice (2010) " Director Vincenzo Natali, working with producer Guillermo del Toro, achieves a second-rate -- Canadian -- tone that recalls Gothika and David Cronenberg's early outrages." — New York Press
Posted Jun 2, 2010
15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " Suggesting some kind of quasi-feminist Manhattan-boosterism has always made the Sex and the City series phony, as well as loathsome." — New York Press
Posted May 26, 2010
44% Just Wright (2010) " Hollywood stereotype keeps Latifah stuck in neo-Mammy mode. And Latifah isn't a good enough actress to reveal emotional aspiration; neither she nor Patton bring depth to the phenomenon of women who orbit around successful athletes." — New York Press
Posted May 19, 2010
43% Robin Hood (2010) " Fake beauty and fake history rob Robin Hood of previous moral value. It's no longer "legendary" because Scott and Helgeland's sham realism trivializes history." — New York Press
Posted May 12, 2010
73% Iron Man 2 (2010) " Iron Man 2 is exactly what critics and audiences deserve following the celebration of that awful, dung-hued first film." — New York Press
Posted May 12, 2010
76% Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) " Wonderful Ian Dury -- England's most endearing punk-era showman -- deserves a biopic worthy of his bouncy, ribald and trenchant songs. The new movie Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ain't it." — New York Press
Posted May 5, 2010
64% Harry Brown (2010) " Caine's a superb actor -- nobody sneers with uglier, angrier menace-but his lack of standards has landed him in so many rotten movies that his act-aholic presence is distracting throughout." — New York Press
Posted Apr 28, 2010
36% Boogie Woogie (2010) " Director Duncan Ward laggardly paces Danny Moynihan's script. This doesn't help what might well be an accurate portrayal of bourgeois decadence -- especially when Ward is given to lecherous emphasis while emphasizing his characters' lechery." — New York Press
Posted Apr 21, 2010
41% Death at a Funeral (2010) " Despite a few more laffs than the British original, the cast seems to be operating on auto-pilot--the sort of regular clownishness that lets director Neil LaBute make his standard implication that nothing in (black) American life is to be taken seriously." — New York Press
Posted Apr 14, 2010
40% Who Do You Love? (2010) " In Who Do You Love? everything that Chess Records has come to symbolize about pop culture, race relations or the blues transitioning into rock 'n' roll gets flattened. It perceives American history in reverse." — New York Press
Posted Apr 7, 2010
26% Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) " Since Married Too? is not Perry's first attempt at filmmaking, his reliance on formula becomes disconcerting. In fact, since the execrable Meet the Browns, Perry's conventions have been unacceptable." — New York Press
Posted Mar 31, 2010
76% The Eclipse (2010) " McPherson's good actors remind you how stage plays generate interest solely through talk and, as The Eclipse gets further away from cinema, a bigger mystery develops: Why is McPherson's filmmaking so uncinematic?" — New York Press
Posted Mar 24, 2010
22% Repo Men (2010) " Just before it's over, Repo Man goes so far into bad taste that director Miguel Sapochnik finally seems to get his hipster/surrealist rhythm." — New York Press
Posted Mar 24, 2010
86% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) " Can we please have a moratorium on serial killer, Holocaust and child-abuse combos?" — New York Press
Posted Mar 17, 2010
95% Mother (Madeo) (2010) " As in his overrated sci-fi monster movie The Host, Bong uses outrageous, over-scaled violence to offset his superficial look at family dynamics." — New York Press
Posted Mar 10, 2010
53% Green Zone (2010) " Damon has perfected looking down his nose at his superiors, fellow grunts, shifty-swarthy Iraqis -- and us. It is an insidious, racist, fascist characterization." — New York Press
Posted Mar 10, 2010
42% Brooklyn's Finest (2010) " By stepping up his game, Fuqua's gone from his usual bullcrap to horsehockey." — New York Press
Posted Mar 3, 2010
51% Alice in Wonderland (2010) " Burton's film feels no different than the formulaic The Golden Compass or The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." — New York Press
Posted Mar 3, 2010
19% Cop Out (2010) " Smith's staging, composition, editing and humor mark him as utterly incompetent." — New York Press
Posted Feb 24, 2010
97% A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) " Audiard's fancy camera and music mannerisms are as trashy and superfluous as a Michael Mann movie: using "Mack the Knife" as a theme doesn't match Brecht but reveals Audiard's essential lack of interest in Malik's culture." — New York Press
Posted Feb 24, 2010
68% Shutter Island (2010) " Shutter Island is a perfect example of Hollywood excess: It demonstrates a once significant filmmaker decaying into a big budget, poorly-motivated hack." — New York Press
Posted Feb 17, 2010
93% Lourdes (2010) " Hausner's schematic approach to debunking religion is predictable and unfunny." — New York Press
Posted Feb 17, 2010
35% The Wolfman (2010) " By pandering to the Avatar market's debased taste and indifference to storytelling details, this technically polished, emotionally crude remake sets back the advances that once had been made in horror movies." — New York Press
Posted Feb 10, 2010
28% Dear John (2010) " Dear John pushes Tatum too far into ... interiorized sensitivity; he needs to be as beautifully expressive as Paul Walker was in the last really good romance movie, Noel." — New York Press
Posted Feb 10, 2010
86% Red Riding Trilogy () " The Red Riding Trilogy mixes cynicism and sarcasm, pandering to the naiveté market no differently than Brick and Zodiac..." — New York Press
Posted Feb 3, 2010
27% Extraordinary Measures (2010) " A better movie would have made an elevated perspective part of its aesthetic -- that's one of the elating aspects of Kurosawa's Red Beard: Its view of the human condition is, by necessity, large and vibrant." — New York Press
Posted Jan 28, 2010
90% Fish Tank (2010) " This knee-jerk pathos is a reflex from both America's Reagan-era hip-hop and England's Thatcher-era miserabilist pop. Call it Automatic Pity." — New York Press
Posted Jan 13, 2010
48% The Book of Eli (2010) " The Book of Eli, yet another apocalyptic fantasy, suggests that Denzel Washington has become America's dullest actor." — New York Press
Posted Jan 13, 2010
26% The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009) " Director Jodie Markell's fidelity to Williams simply isn't enough to make his tropes sing." — New York Press
Posted Jan 6, 2010
85% The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) " Think Children of the Damned, Children of the Corn, Children of Men. Think childishly in order to believe that Haneke's ripoffs of Carl Dreyer atmosphere and Ingmar Bergman sexual hysteria are at all original." — New York Press
Posted Dec 30, 2009
79% Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) " Godard and Makavejev used to do this kind of thing as a subversive joke, but here itâ(TM)s literal-minded didacticism, impressive only to those who donâ(TM)t know how exciting good political cinema can be." — New York Press
Posted Dec 30, 2009
56% It's Complicated (2009) " Each "adorable" yet unreal scene is more offensive than the last." — New York Press
Posted Dec 22, 2009
70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " So grim and unappealing it sours the movie-watching experience." — New York Press
Posted Dec 22, 2009
83% Avatar (2009) " The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt." — New York Press
Posted Dec 15, 2009
32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " Slipping past Sebold's quondam feminist protest (briefly glimpsing Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, for example), Jackson goes to the edge of lurid sentimentality." — New York Press
Posted Dec 9, 2009
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