>Ten Best Lists are Fake News and have been for years. Peruse local media nationwide in any year — but especially this year — and see the same movies rubberstamped because most reviewers, enslaved to studio publicists, pay attention only to highly promoted movies and then pretend to assess the state of the culture.
>Readers of this column will be aware of the good films listed below — proof that moviegoers need to be diligent about what they read and what they choose to see in this era of hype and hypocrisy.
>European films dominate the Better-Than List for reasons too embarrassing for Hollywood — and its political cowardice — to go into here (check out the original reviews). These are the movies that prove film culture is not yet dead — and not solely controlled by know-nothing gatekeepers. In honor of the discriminating judgment established by the late Dan Talbot, a distributor of integrity and great taste, the “foreign” films here preserve humane cultural values and artistic courage. Whether they were popular or not, the excellence of these films challenges politically correct dross.
>Baby Driver > Get Out Edgar Wright’s autism action film, full of solipsistic sensations, insinuates pop culture’s inadequacy in the real world while Jordan Peele’s racial travesty — Hollywood’s first, inadvertent Obama apology — exemplifies that failure. The ready-to-act vs. the indolent “woke.”
an absolute pleb or a butthurt contrarian take your pick
Andrew Jones
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Gabriel Hughes
I'd be on page with him about Bruno Dumont, but The Square was utter decadent highbrow self-touching satire and that Giraurdie new film made no sense and was awful to eatch
Brandon Lee
>Zack Snyder’s best moments raise comic book sci-fi to eye-widening, soul-stirring art based
Nathan Stewart
amerimutt cinema BTFO
Austin Long
Read his The Square review. He's actually mixed on it because of its snarky pessimism.
Gavin Walker
Ah, took him five words to resort to trumpisms.
Cuz if you check his twitter, he comes as nothing but a mindless Trump fanboy. Absolute empty cheering. Even PJW makes more of an effort with his whataboutisms and agenda.
Ian Adams
One of the better versions of this.
Jace Wilson
>Edgar Wright’s autism action film
Nicholas Morris
>Cuz if you check his twitter Why would you ever read a man's twitter?
Nicholas Ortiz
Holy fucking soy.
Kayden Stewart
Do you honestly apply thr same to the POTUS?
Landon Perry
I just checked his Twitter and he hasn't mentioned Trump in anything, let alone give him praise.
Ryan Wright
>Valerian > Wonder Woman Based >Justice League > TLJ BASED
The king has spoken
Jace Green
Wow holy shit the worst thing in the world would be if someone was a Trump fanboy. W-w-wait I got a text on my Obamaphone.
Justin Bennett
>tfw every year you find yourself agreeing more and more with Armond, despite knowing his contrarian polemic nature.
Cooper Cruz
>Armond White likes Baby Driver what a redditor
Justin Rodriguez
Yeah but make him black to be more accurate
Cameron Nguyen
>Yeah but make him black to be more accurate
Matthew Mitchell
I'll say this At least he knows movies
Bentley Morris
>Justice League > The Last Jedi >Zack Snyder’s best moments raise comic book sci-fi to eye-widening, soul-stirring art while the unoriginal, interminable Star Wars series trains kids of various IQs to be mindless consumers.
>Sneaks in his stance on diversity and race realism.
Aaron James
SAVAGE
Ian Hernandez
Soy Vey
Camden Morgan
>Zack's Snyder's best moments
Those being? The whole movie is washed-up by the same consumer-obsessed executives he's criticising. Plus half the movie was done by Marvel lol.
Ryan Howard
>Loves TLJ What? >The Last Jedifollows fanboy tradition, in itsHarry Potterknock-off (Rey’s concern about her absent parents); the PC, multi-culti play of Finn’s partnership with Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran); the take-charge feminism of purple-haired Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern evokingThe Hunger Games); and the mutant evil of Supreme Leader (Andy Serkis), tapping intoLord of the RingsCGI. Given this patchwork of bad influences, the film lacks style. Sure, the familiar space battles go click and a nighttime chase scene of heroes liberating and riding race-track beasts through terrestrial pastures is almost rousing (though photographed too dark), yetThe Last Jedifalls short of the visionary excitement that distinguishesJustice LeagueorValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. >This episode’s sameness might be reassuring to legions of the faithful, but hadStar Warsnot already dulled their appreciation of visual and kinetic fantasy (by congratulating their taste for humdrum sci-fi, cute robots, and outré creatures), they might instinctively realize that Johnson’s two best-looking sequences are not imaginative enough. Luke’s confrontation with Kyloon the red-salt tarmac only hints at the shock of bloodshed, and the centerpiece skirmish between Supreme Leader, Kylo, and Rey — the film’s visual highpoint — features only rote gymnastics. You cannot have seen any Chinese martial arts or Zack Snyder movies if you are impressed by this. Johnson’s backdrop is a stunning red cyc wall that goes up in flames, revealing nothing. Psyche. He roasted it.
Noah Long
He's not wrong (about any of these)
Robert Scott
Based.
Connor Diaz
It's pretty bad when you can't even read letters properly.
Charles Gray
did he just call out the jewpigkikes?
Grayson Nelson
>BTFO plebs and reddit once again he just can't be stopped
Andrew Mitchell
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Adrian Diaz
Serious question, what is his stances towards blacks, really. It's clear the BLM movement disgusts him, he calls most of black actors disgraceful and sell-out, so what is his credo? Is it some kind of "blacks should just keep mum and endure" type of thing?
Benjamin Allen
>Edgar Wright's autism action film That's the last straw!
Adrian Miller
disagree with him on mudbound. it was pretty good and not 'ahistorical' plenty of returning black servicemen had to adjust to the overt racism that wasn't as pronounced in the european theatre.
not exactly uncommon for the klan to fuck up an 'uppity' black man in the deep south of Mississippi during that time.
Ian Thompson
Does anyone else wish they could watch kino through Armond's eyes?
Austin Gutierrez
You mean go at movies intent to hate them 95% of the time and strain yourself to put an "everything is political" lens on everything?
Nah.
Eli Moore
>autism action film Truly a blessed man
Jeremiah Harris
>antisocial catastrophe That was my nickname in high school
Evan Anderson
He has praised all Wright's movies, not a surprise
Ayden Murphy
daily reminder
>In January 2014, White was expelled from The New York Film Critics Circle for allegedly heckling director Steve McQueen at an event for the film 12 Years a Slave
Austin Watson
How can I become this unrelentingly patrician?
Ethan Ward
>not even Armond White can find something better to say about Valerian than that it's "fun" l o l
Ethan Parker
>Serious question, what is his stances towards blacks, really. It's clear the BLM movement disgusts him, he calls most of black actors disgraceful and sell-out, so what is his credo? Is it some kind of "blacks should just keep mum and endure" type of thing? He's inflicted with internalized racism, it's a common psychological effect of colonialism
Landon Young
Honestly, the trick is to sincerely not give a fuck about what other people think while also having the rhetorical and oratory skills to trick people into thinking you know what you're talking about. If you sound like you know what you're talking about and you absolutely don't give a fuck about what other people think, all you need is a horse and you have become a Patrician.
Angel Brooks
>My life aa a Zucchini
That is legitimately a fantastic film, the Mary and Max of the 2010s
Adam Russell
>makes an annual "better than" list that is basically "this panned movie is better than this acclaimed one" >Sup Forums still says he's not contrarian
>le based black man btfo libtards I like that Sup Forums conveniently forgets about the little things
Jackson Morgan
It's easily not, not even best movie of last year, I just forgot if he liked it or not
Jason Moore
Most of these films weren't panned, though. Some exceptions being Valerian and JL.
Jace Torres
>Steve McQueen He deserves every bad word for following up Shame with that Oscar-bait
Nolan Barnes
>bland neo-feminist Hillary fantasy
BASED
Jace Kelly
>implying hidden figures isn't libkino
Levi Jenkins
Except My Life as a Courgette/Zucchini was one of the highest rated movies of last year
Zachary Diaz
>WE
David Long
and Sup Forums still hasn't seen it. there was like one thread
Jace Gomez
>Justice League Embarrassing
Levi Bell
This guy is based. Where can I find his Patreon?
Carson Harris
>tfw Armond perfectly captures why you love one director in one sentence and trashes your favorite director in the next
This is why he's the only essential film critic left. He unironically really makes me think.
Adam Stewart
You can donate to the National Review so that the based black gay man continues to write about the kinos that trigger the libcucks.
Daniel Stewart
brainlets
Gabriel Gutierrez
I already do
Nathan Morales
it really seems like the guy is honest/unbiased with his opinions
Jeremiah Walker
We all know what's behind """anti semitic incidents""" >Whatcha doin rabbi?
Dominic Thompson
literally hate everything that's not perfect
Lincoln Perry
"You're an embarrassing doorman and garbageman!"
what he shouted as McQueen was accepting his award, allegedly.
Jace Rodriguez
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Aiden Collins
based
Chase Turner
i don't understand how anyone can appreciate Armond White, all he writes is air, it's not not true opinions, it's just attention seeking bullshit
Owen Ross
brainlet with shit taste detected
Hunter Richardson
>i don't understand how anyone can appreciate Armond White, all he writes is air, it's not not true opinions, it's just attention seeking bullshit t. sycophant
Benjamin Davis
Armond White seems to love anything focusing on gay dudes and AIDS
Luke Wilson
eye-widening, soul-stirring art
Ian Jenkins
wrong, idiot
Jaxon Cox
Baby Driver is a propaganda film trying to get modern autistic young men(95% of them) to re-enter the regular world and get women.
Dylan Sullivan
Other than Justice League, Valerian, and Baby Driver, I've never heard of anything he praises here.
Kayden Martinez
The Lord of Sup Forums: The Return of the King
Asher Miller
>Other than Justice League, Valerian, and Baby Driver, I've never heard of anything he praises here. the absolute state of nu-Sup Forums
Joshua Roberts
>Armond White's Top 5 films of 2017:
>Davies’ "A Quiet Passion" openly gay director >Duscatel-Martineau’s "Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo" openly gay directors, lgbt subject >Jerome Reybaud’s "4 Days in France" openly gay director, lgbt subject >Alain Guiraudie’s "Staying Vertical" openly gay director, lgbt subject >Claude Barris’ "My Life as a Zucchini" based on a book by an openly gay writer
>All the best filmmakers are gay. That’s been a fact for the past few years, even though critics polls saying otherwise are, predictably, unreliable. >~Armond White
can someone please tell me what he fucking meant by this?
Wyatt Brooks
I follow film news and watch review shows on youtube all the time and I've never heard of those movies.
Jace Moore
You "follow film news" but haven't heard of The Square which won the Palme d'Or?
