Armond White Archive
-
What Maisie Knew reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 17, 2013 | No CommentsBy 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... -
Pain & Gain reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy 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 &... -
Steven Spielberg’s Obama reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 1, 2013 | No CommentsBy 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... -
Kon Tiki reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on April 26, 2013 | No CommentsBy 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... -
In the House reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White Sloppy storytelling has become so standard for American filmmakers (Side Effects, The Place Behind the Pines) that Francois Ozon’s new trifle In the House feels especially pleasurable.... -
Portrait of Jason reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White The difference between Antonio Fargas playing a pathetic Black queen based on Jason Holliday in Next Stop Greenwich Village and Jason Holliday playing himself in Portrait of... -
42: The Jackie Robinson Legend reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White We are fortunate to be spared Spike Lee’s take on the Jackie Robinson story, which surely would have been spiteful: emphatic about race grievance and loaded with... -
Alex Cross and Detropia reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on October 20, 2012 | No CommentsAlex Cross and Detropia zombify a city By Armond White Detroit’s old magnificent Michigan Theater was one of the country’s finest cinema edifices. A palace of dreams, its vaulted ceiling... -
Snow White and the Huntsman reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No CommentsBy Armond White Why should we be watching commercials director Rupert Sanders’ film Snow White and the Huntsman when Romain Gavras’ No Church in the Wild music video for Kanye... -
Tsunanimity: The Dictator reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsPolarizing Comedy Exposed in The Dictator By Armond White Lazily titled after Chaplin’s 1940 Hitler-Mussolini satire The Great Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new film The Dictator is part of our...