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> [The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-problem-of-criticism-is-not-judgment-but-evocation-conveying-the/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

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## More by David Denby

> [Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/never-throw-fruit-at-someone-who-understands-the-theatrics-of-the/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [Entertaining the reader is a good function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/entertaining-the-reader-is-a-good-function/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/if-you-don-t-read-books-and-if-you-don-t-get-consumed-by-the-physical/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-greatest-all-around-american-film-actor-is-james-stewart/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/corporate-irony-not-only-ridicules-the-thing-it-is-selling-but-the/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-problem-of-criticism-is-not-judgment-but-evocation-conveying-the/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/trivial-details-have-been-summoned-in-part-to-make-a-satirical-point/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/whether-white-black-asian-or-latino-american-students-rarely-arrive/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-director-antoine-fuqua-relies-on-small-details-which-anchor-the/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/art-talk-is-punk-let-the-movie-do-your-speaking-for-you/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-trouble-with-today-s-snarky-pipsqueaks-who-break-off-a-sentence/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/crash-is-hyper-articulate-and-often-breathtakingly-intelligent-and/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/mi-yammi-the-extraordinary-city-with-its-judeo-cubano-population-its/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/the-action-comes-at-us-through-a-buzz-of-nattering-remarks/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-denby/just-because-a-book-is-a-classic-doesn-t-mean-it-has-anything-to-do/)

[David Denby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-denby/)

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