UPDATE: The New Yorker’s Richard Brody is a top-notch film writer, with good insight into film history, but his tastes can veer towards total and utter bewilderment. He’s essentially the Armond White of far-left film criticism.
For example, Brody once wrote that Spike Lee’s remake of “Oldboy” was better than the original. He also abides by the church of mumblecore — saying it’s this generation’s nouvelle vague. Let us also not forget his unadorned infatuation for Eddie Murphy’s “Norbit.”
Brody’s latest hot take might be his worst. Some of you might already know that he’s a big fan of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” and he’s already stated that he believes it to the best movie to have ever crossed the billion dollar mark at the box-office.
However, Brody is going one step further in his “Barbie” infatuation — he’s now saying it’s a better movie than Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Say what you will about Armond White, but there’s no way that he’d diss Kubrick in this sort of fashion, let alone praise “Barbie” to the high heavens the way that Brody is.
