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

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

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

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

- David Denby

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

- 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.

- David Denby

The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

- David Denby

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

- David Denby