Quotes by David Denby - Page 1

Entertaining the reader is a good function.
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Function
Good Fun
Reader
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Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.
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Art
Punk
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The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.
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Action
Buzz
Remarks
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The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.
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Actors
Film
Film Actors
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Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.
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Fruit
Situation
Theatrics
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The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.
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Criticism
Emotional
Problem
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The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
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Anchors
Reality
Small Details
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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 wine and the arugula salad.
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Class
White
Wine
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Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
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Clueless
Flow
Irony
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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, though it is not for the fainthearted.
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Intelligent
Rivers
Thinking
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You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.
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Novelists
Reading
Writing
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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 represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.
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Hate
Past
Sex
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The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.
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War
Eerie
Evil
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