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.
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes t… - David Denby
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes t…
- David Denby
Entertaining the reader is a good function. - David Denby
Entertaining the reader is a good function.
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American me… - David Denby
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American me…
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 t… - 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 t…
The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart. - David Denby
The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do. - David Denby
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.
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
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks. - David Denby
The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.
Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you. - David Denby
Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.
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