Armond White has sophisticated taste

I haven't seen Miranda July's new film, so I can't comment on it directly. But both The Cinetrix and the New York Times' A.O. Scott, a sizzling combination of blogger princess and mainstream maven, have endorsed it heartily. So you have to wonder what's going on when Armond White says this about the award winning film:

July's simplified comedy-drama—a cine-cartoon—is not offensive like Jonathan Carouette's neurotic exhibitionism in Tarnation. But there's a similar amateur's arrogance in both; they threaten to drag the cinema back to an emotional naivete that sophisticated filmmakers usually transcend. [emphasis added]

Sophisticated, huh? You mean like Sahara? Like Torque? Like motherfucking You Got Served? All of which you praised. Honestly, Armond.

It's just vexing, really. You've got the insight, vocabularly and rhetorical style to crush a thousand Entertainment Tonight cutesy publicist critics, but you're as tempermental as 10 year old. I want to defend you. But... but... You Got Served? Sheesh.