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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 09 Jan 2017

[Jackie is] a tour de force that works precisely because it doesn't have to be totally convincing, just insightful…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 09 Jan 2017

Lonergan's static pace and over-obvious compositions attempt fake realism, but each scene looks like an acting-class exercise…

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Review of From Afar (2015)

By Armond White (604) for Out Magazine (27) on 02 Jan 2017

From Afar resorts to a socially demoralized vision that condemns both Armando and Elder…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Armond White (604) for Out Magazine (27) on 31 Dec 2016

Nocturnal Animals is a revenge drama by a designer who deals in beauty then reveals his society's ugliness…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Armond White (604) for Out Magazine (27) on 31 Dec 2016

The Neon Demon cheapens fashion and femininity…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Armond White (604) for Out Magazine (27) on 30 Dec 2016

Maybe the campiness of Hail, Caesar! can help educate viewers about the history of gay codes and erotic symbolism…

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Review of The Girl on the Train (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

The Girl on the Train...is so thoroughly lousy that it augurs a horrible future for the American movie-going plebiscite…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

In The Accountant, blatancy overtakes sincerity...absurdly convoluted, this film stays blatantly politically correct…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 04 Nov 2016

American Honey...struck me as unbearably phony...Each scene is a provocation and an indictment, but the film's also an offense to the principles…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

Queen of Katwe may suggest the title of a Disney animated princess (like the lamentable The Princess and the Frog), but all possibilities of…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

Stone forgets he's telling a story of sedition, and he loses both his sense of human nature and his cinematic dazzle...Stone abets these traitors…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

[W]hat could be more offensive than rich Hollywoodians...traipsing through a collapsing Europe, contributing...the diminishment of our literary…

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Review of Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

Malick the animist moves into abstraction, like Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey F/X, but he ends with amazement, like Godard's late spiritual…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

[W]hat could be more offensive than rich Hollywoodians...traipsing through a collapsing Europe, contributing...the diminishment of our literary…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

Moonlight's best moments come in Little's reaction to Juan's affection, but later scenes of Chiron's erotic confusion and Black's maudlin self-pity…

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Review of 13th (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

The 13th is full of accusations by opportunists-posing-as-historians who profit from reinforcing the fear that black Americans by and large…

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Review of Masterminds (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

Masterminds, directed by Jared Hess, needs to go deeper into the tension between the way pop culture betrays its audience by displacing personal…

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Review of The Player (1992)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 04 Nov 2016

The Player, which Altman made after years of struggle, with all Hollywood fascination worn away, is Altman's dour version of Dante's Inferno…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 14 Sep 2016

Instead of mending fences in Sully, Eastwood works through both awe and disbelief, recognizing underappreciated professionalism...by looking…

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Review of Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 14 Sep 2016

This documentary itself is a whirlwind of deceit, switching tenses at will, as if to legitimize Albert's particular delusions, still enjoying…

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