Andrew White

Andrew White Pro

Favorite films

  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • Late Spring

Recent activity

All
  • Queer

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Toy Story

    ★★★★★

  • House of Tolerance

    ★★★★

Recent reviews

More
  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★½

    The most literal interpretation of “tripping balls” I’ve ever seen.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Lean and mean; there isn’t an ounce of fat on it. Soderbergh remains anomalous for his combination of technical precision and complete lack of self importance.

Popular reviews

More
  • La La Land

    La La Land

    I can't remember the last time I had the extreme displeasure of viewing such obscenely disgusting neoliberal trash. This is the whitest film of 2016. Sure, minority actors can occasionally be seen in the frame, but they consist almost exclusively of male African-American Jazz musicians. As is often the case, casual racism is accompanied by gross elitism. In La La Land, Hollywood is the undisputed center of the universe. At one point, Ryan Gosling asks Emma Stone to come with…

  • Time

    Time

    ★★

    Incredibly overbearing and manipulative; the filmmakers consciously chose to gloss over the subjects' guilt and to refrain from showing anything more than the most cursory inkling of remorse for their actions. I do feel for the children, they are the real victims here, but I feel hardly any sympathy for the mother and father. This isn't because I'm some heartless, neoconservative, advocate of authoritarian law-and-order policies, but because the film doesn't effectively humanize its central characters.

Following

59