Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do. — David Denby Better than you 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… — David Denby Books 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… — David Denby Business 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 Conveying 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… — David Denby Arugula 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… — David Denby Books 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 Anchors 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… — David Denby Criticism 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… — David Denby Alive Copy Share Image
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… — David Denby Appliances Copy Share Image
“Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at… — David Denby Books Copy Share Image
“Snark is what people on the inside call any attempt at protest from people on the outside. I hate it on principle,… — David Denby Snarky-remarks Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Accountability Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Hundred Copy Share Image
