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Film critic and essayist Phillip Lopate wrote that White " has staked out a position as a renegade film critic, the Last Angry Man, unafraid to attack popular favorites or make enemies with colleagues ".

His criticism has been described as " unique " and also as " thoughtful " since it " allows readers the opportunity to interpret films as more than just entertainment ".

Also, he has been described as " not boring " and " capable of wicked insights ", " often-contrarian ( and always fun to read )", " extremely knowledgeable ", " immensely readable, fearless, provocative " as well as " passionate, idiosyncratic and a natural polemicist ".

Film critic Jack Mathews had described White as a " classic, unapologetic elitist " whose " haughty, theoretical approach is the stuff of academia and film journals ", but also as " a critic in a world of cinema that does not exist, except in the margins of independent and avant garde film ".

Critic Kyle Smith has argued that White " simply has a different aesthetic from that of the herd ", while critic David Chen suggested that he "( perhaps too ) vehemently believes in the integrity of his art and longs for the golden era when the mainstream still cared what film critics thought ".