What is Armond White?
{{Infobox person |image = |birth_name= |birth_date={{birth based on age as of date|60|2014|01|18}} |birth_place=[[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S. |nationality= |occupation=movie critic |alma_mater={{unbulleted list|[[Wayne State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])}} }} '''Armond White''' (born {{birth based on age as of date|60|2014|01|18|noage=0}})<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/7996/the_baddest_film_critic_in_new_york_grew_up_in_detroit_and_went_to_wsu |title=The Baddest Film Critic in New York Grew Up in Detroit and Went to WSU |last=McGraw |first=Bill |date=2014-01-18 |website=Deadline Detroit |access-date=2021-11-10 |quote=This week, White, 60, made news when he was purged from the New York Film Critics Circle, the nation's oldest such group.}}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] [[Music critic|music]] and [[Movie criticism|movie critic]]. He writes for ''[[National Review]]'' and ''[[Out (magazine)|Out]]'' [[magazine]]. He was the [[editor]] of ''[[CITYarts, Inc.|CityArts]]'' from 2011 until 2014 the lead movie critic for the ''[[New York Press]]''from 1997 until 2011. He had been the [[arts]] editor and critic for ''[[The City Sun]]'' from 1984 until 1996. Other [[Publishing|publications]] he has written for include ''[[Film Comment]]'', ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' and ''[[First Things]]''. White is known for his [[provocation|provocative]] and [[idiosyncratic]] reviews.<ref>{{cite book|first=Daniel |last=McNeil|chapter=The last honest film critic in America: Armond White and the children of James Baldwin|title=Film Criticism in the Digital Age|editor-first1 = Mattias| editor-last1 =Frey| editor-first2 = Cecilia |editor-last2=Sayad |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|year= 2015|pages= 61–78|isbn=978-0813570723}}</ref> He is a [[Controversy|controversial]] perso