Best Succinct Film Pan From Armond White's 10th Annual Better-Than List

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Dude brings the heat

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396040/tenth-annual-better-list-armond-white

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Jonathan Glazer exploited sexpot Scarlett Johansson for juvenile vagina dentata fantasia.	5
Wes Anderson’s overblown, facetious, morally ugly defense of European decadence.	2
...the race-sex-art hysteria of Damien Chazelle’s bratty, pseudo-jazzy psychodrama.	2
Laura Poitras celebrates Edward Snowden’s anti-American paranoia.	2
Mexico’s A. G. Inarritu mixed puerile magical realism and showbiz for moral distraction.	1
Disney’s craven distortion of the West’s own mythic legacy. Angelina Jolie will do anything.	1
Richard Linklater’s inept indie that pampered racial privilege, hipster solipsism, and culture-wide aesthetic gullibili	1
...the drabness in Ava DuVernay’s racially condescending MLK hagiography.	0
Bennett Miller revels in anti-American pathology and decadence.	0
Harvey Weinstein’s sanctimonious sexual politics. Exploitation of Alan Turing.	0
J. C. Chandor turns big city corruption — and ambition — fatuous.	0
Tim Burton equates the idiosyncrasy of 60s Keane paintings with America’s permanent cultural decline. Weak satire.	0
Christopher Nolan couldn’t get past nerdy, boring imitation-Kubrick space oddity.	0
Pawel Pawlikowski’s atheistic, pseudo-feminist dismissal of spirituality.	0
Angelina Jolie turned war-on-terror guilt into sadistic, quasi-religious, ahistorical sentimentality.	0
...the dystopia that Bong-Joon Ho turns into a humorless, absurdity. A political allegory for children.	0

― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:35 (eleven years ago)

torn between "moral distraction" and "race-sex-art hysteria"

― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:40 (eleven years ago)

Chow can do everything; Angelina Jolie will do anything.

― goole, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:42 (eleven years ago)

Jonathan Glazer exploited sexpot Scarlett Johansson for juvenile vagina dentata fantasia.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:43 (eleven years ago)

Foxcatcher is decadent!

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:44 (eleven years ago)

don't need the headache of reading anything by this guy ever again

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:44 (eleven years ago)

that this is brought to us by the national review is the most beautiful cherry on top

― da croupier, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:47 (eleven years ago)

He sure hates decadence

― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:49 (eleven years ago)

Bill Buckley didn't.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:56 (eleven years ago)

At the risk of reacting in any way to any of this, the line about Godard's film being ignored is utterly ridiculous (if he means ignored by critics). Seems to me to have gotten a phenomenal amount of critical attention and Top-10 placements.

― clemenza, Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:08 (eleven years ago)

Either he or I are really getting too old for this. Only his Under the Skin swipe got even a mild rise outta me.

― Eric H., Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:10 (eleven years ago)

Jonathan Glazer exploited sexpot Scarlett Johansson for juvenile vagina dentata fantasia.

this has a lot of good keywords/seo

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:12 (eleven years ago)

i prob agree w/ young+beautiful > under the skin but its close/neglegible

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:13 (eleven years ago)

this guy is a bit daft. does anyone here take him seriously? morbs does right?

― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:13 (eleven years ago)

Dennis Perrin tweets

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:18 (eleven years ago)

Using my own definition of best, I chose "Wes Anderson’s overblown, facetious, morally ugly defense of European decadence."

― earthface, windface and fireface (Aimless), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:29 (eleven years ago)

When did Armond turn on Anderson?

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:37 (eleven years ago)

"seriously," go to hell

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 January 2015 13:43 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 15 January 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

lol at calling Snowpiercer "humorless." Guess he went to the can during Allison Pill's scene.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 02:27 (eleven years ago)

I voted for the Boyhood line. Even though I wasn't completely sure what my vote was supposed to be based on.

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 January 2015 02:40 (eleven years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.