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Fast & Furious 6 vs. Iron Man 3 by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 22, 2013 | No Comments
How Fast & Furious 6 crushes Iron Man 3 By Armond White The cynicism that makes Iron Man 3 so lousy is defied by the good-time camaraderie of Fast &...
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Decoding Francis Ha by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 18, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Frances Ha runs a very long 84 minutes. It offers an obnoxiously self-satisfied portrait of a young white New Yorker–played by Greta Gerwig–running out her parent’s stipend,...
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What Maisie Knew reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 17, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Julianne Moore has unintentionally foundered her acting career in insufferable films like Savage Beauty, HBO’s Game Change, The Kids Are Alright, Crazy Stupid Love, Chloe, Blindness, Children...
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Frances Ha decoded by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 15, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Frances Ha runs a very long 84 minutes. It offers an obnoxiously self-satisfied portrait of a young white New Yorker–played by Greta Gerwig–running out her parent’s stipend,...
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The Great Gatsby reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White The ad campaign for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is pretty snazzy, the movie itself is a mess. The poster’s anachronistic Art Deco silver-gold letters on a...
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Bay Watch: Armond White’s Transformers 2 review for CityArts

Posted on May 5, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Why waste spleen on Michael Bay? He’s a real visionary–perhaps mindless in some way (he‘s never bothered filming a good script), but Transformers 2: Revenge of the...
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Pain & Gain reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 3, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Michael Bay sees like an ad-man gone wild— glorifying everything–a vision that corresponds to the age’s consumerist sensibility: greed and the need for speed. In Pain &...
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Steven Spielberg’s Obama reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on May 1, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White The worst Steven Spielberg production ever is, without doubt, his Obama homage, Steven Spielberg’s Obama. Unlike his disingenuous Obama-in-disguise campaign feature film, Lincoln, this two-minute satirical short...
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Kon Tiki reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on April 26, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Unmistakably Pal Sverre Hagan’s appearance in Kon-Tiki as Norwegian explorer Thor Heyedahl is modeled after Peter O’Toole’s T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. Not just tall, blue-eyed...
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When Barbra Streisand met Louis and Chaplin by Armond White for CityArts

Posted on April 24, 2013 | No Comments
By Armond White Funny that the Film Society of Lincoln Center paid tribute to Barbra Streisand on April 22 with its 40-year-old Chaplin Award even though Streisand’s movies are not...
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