Armond White Archive
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Computer Chess reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on July 19, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White Whatever else is going on in Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess (now playing at Film Forum), it is also–unmistakably–a satire on film culture’s extinction. The weird weekend gathering […] -
Critic’s Pick of the Week: Byzantium reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on June 26, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White One story isn’t enough for Neil Jordan. Byzantium is full of twists and turns, memories and revelations that zigzag through the tortured history of men, women, birth, […] -
DVD Pick: Zabriskie Point (Warner Home Video) reviewed by Armond White
Posted on May 24, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White In light of Michael bay’s Pain & Gain, it’s time to take another look one of its influences: Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 Zabriskie Point finally passes the test […] -
The Hangover Part III tallied by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 23, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White You might laugh at The Hangover Part III but you won’t laugh as hard as Todd Phillips, the film’s pecuniary director and co-screenwriter, who laffs all the […] -
A Pig Across Paris (at Film Forum) reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 23, 2013 | No CommentsBy Armond White What’s derisive in the American title A Pig Across Paris (now playing at Film Forum) drives home the bitterness hidden in the original French title La Traversee […] -
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 & […] -
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. […]