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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Armond White is an American film and music critic who writes for National Review and Out. He was previously the editor of CityArts (2011โ2014), the lead film critic for the alternative weekly New York Press (1997โ2011), and the arts editor and critic for The City Sun (1984โ1996). Other publications that have carried his work include Film Comment, Variety, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, and First Things.
Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.
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.
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.