Armond White

Armond White National Review 5 days ago This film is not an analysis of how media functions, fails, or misleads. It’s just another A24 indie-monstrosity, a creep-out designed for a future media-studies curriculum. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago The Social Reckoning is a piece of disingenuous mythmaking that pretends to give Zuckerberg the comeuppance many have desired. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago This pseudo-intellectual, self-aggrandizing, Nobel prize–related fare is silly and self-serious -- a New Yorker magazine version of Marvel trash. Go to Full Review Winter of the Crow (2025) 90% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago A startling, very necessary examination of decadent power. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago These images are precious beyond estimation because -- as Schuyler himself might say -- they rectify the legacy of black American art and language that has been hijacked by recent political chicanery. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago Fielder-Oppenheim themselves practice fraudulent storytelling that goes beyond the “unreliable narrator” trend. They resurrect the folly of reality TV and mockumentary to congratulate the narcissism of criminal/celebrity worship and envy. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Armond White National Review 5 days ago East-West cultural contrasts make Kung Fu Soccer slightly remote -- Chow plays fast and facetiously with field rules as he exaggerates the ruthlessness of game play -- but the film’s thrust is pleasure, plus skill and emotion. Go to Full Review Kung Fu Soccer (2026) 22% - -

Armond White National Review Oct 6, 2026 Digger is not a failure of nerve, but in political terms, it is a failed conceit. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Armond White National Review Oct 6, 2026 Pitt and Ayers give us a repetitive, breath-baiting workout, then lay on comfy, man-to-animal camaraderie that it redefines as man-and-beast kinship. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 84% - -

Armond White National Review Oct 6, 2026 No one in Hollywood dares update the 1985 Red Dawn, John Milius’s cautionary fantasy about a communist scare. After the negligible 2012 remake, it remains a conservative pipe dream -- until now, with the provocative makeover Run Hide Fight: Infidels. Go to Full Review Run Hide Fight: Infidels (2026) 27% - -

Armond White National Review Oct 6, 2026 In every way that matters, revealing our personal and societal obligations, Perfect Strangers is the superior film. Go to Full Review Perfect Strangers (1950) - - 29%

Armond White National Review Sep 22, 2026 Navarrette’s and Johnson’s characterizations, mixing beta male anxiety with feminist threat, are as flat as the cinematography. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -

Armond White National Review Sep 3, 2026 A cynical attack on American exceptionalism that reduces a legacy of cinematic genius to desperation. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Armond White National Review Sep 3, 2026 Treating The Heretic in studio-production terms reveals more about the cultural limitations of our era than about artistic ambition or the crowd-thinking of the vaunted Seventies. Go to Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) 98% - -

Armond White National Review Sep 3, 2026 Don’t Say Good Luck combines movie-musical structure with teen-movie richness. It succeeds where the miserable mixed-genre construct of La La Land failed. Go to Full Review Don't Say Good Luck (2026) 93% - -

Armond White National Review Aug 25, 2026 This is still another Millennial film that makes you despair the loss of Paul Mazursky, whose orgy-daring Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and marital-fidelity film Blume in Love are sadly forgotten. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Armond White National Review Aug 25, 2026 The Drama’s cruelty toward its audience matches the triteness of TikTok “verticles” and HBO’s soft-core Euphoria. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Armond White National Review Aug 17, 2026 With cinematic imagination, Six could have been the next step of Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux if he gave in to the bourgeois teenybopper in himself. Only a drudge would condemn Six as kitsch -- it’s kitsch with a zircon crown. Go to Full Review SIX the Musical Live! (2025) 93% - -

Armond White National Review Aug 12, 2026 As if a comic book hero’s existential crisis wasn’t hoary enough, the convoluted storyline of Brand New Day refuses to let audiences start fresh. That’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s method. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Armond White National Review Aug 12, 2026 Roth’s notion of a blood-thirsty revolution recalls last year’s Weapons but outdoes it with the ingenious logic that powered the vision of generational chaos in Brian Taylor’s great Mom and Dad. Go to Full Review Ice Cream Man (2026) 25% - -