“Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at Columbia precisely because most Columbia professors have never seen combat. Daily life on the Columbia Campus involves no… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do. — David Denby Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by… — David Denby Copy Share Image
The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has. — David Denby Copy Share Image
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than… — David Denby Copy Share Image
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby Copy Share Image
“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River,… — David Denby Copy Share Image
