seeming bad behavior—might suggest." Public reception White's work led film critic Roger Ebert to label him as "an intelligent critic and a passionate writer", but also a "smart and knowing [...] troll" in his 2009 essay Not in defense of Armond White. White has in turn criticized Ebert, stating "I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism. Because of the wide and far reach of television, he became an example of what a film critic does for too many people. And what he did simply was not criticism. It was simply blather." In 2014, film critic Walter Biggins of RogerEbert.com penned an essay titled In defense of Armond White, a reference to Ebert's earlier essay. Biggins criticizes White's combative style, but defends him as a critic, describing White as "an important, distinctive, and...necessary voice in film criticism". Biggins states that "He's no troll, and he's one of the few critics capable of noting the inherent—and latent—racism of much of cinema and its discourse... he has provided a rare black voice, and perhaps an even rarer conservative voice, to film/video commentary." Time Magazine wrote that White is an "undeniably talented writer" who "developed a kind of notoriety for his rather contrarian opinions. Some of his colleagues have praised his against-the-grain approach to film criticism, while many others, including a broad swath he's publicly condemned, have been less kind". White has responded to negative criticism of his reviews stating, "If there were a whole bunch of critics who I thought were doing a good job, then I would stop...Because really, the reason why I do what I do is because I think there are things that need to be said about movies, about culture, about the world, that nobody's saying. Critic Thelma Adams has cited White as an influence on her work. Awards Bibliography The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World, 1995 () Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur, 2002 () Keep Moving: The Michael Jackson Chronicles, 2009 () New Position: The Prince Chronicles, 2016 () Make Spielberg Great Again: The Steven Spielberg Chronicles, 2020 () In popular culture White is briefly mentioned in Charlie Kaufman's 2020 absurdist novel Antkind. The novel's protagonist, a paranoid failed film critic, believes he is being spied on by White through the use of miniature drones disguised as bugs. Further reading