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David Denby

David Denby
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David Denby

David Denby has been film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998; prior to that he was film critic of New York magazine. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.

Snark is now available in Trade Paperback
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Snark will be released on January 12, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Great Books will be released on September 25, 1997 in Trade Paperback
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Great Books is now available in Trade Paperback
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Vanity Fair, February 10, 2012
...only the vaguest idea of what you’re about to see and no knowledge at all of what David Denby thinks. (The latter is a good thing in general.) I also hate when people warn you there’s going to be a spoiler but then the spoiler is in...
Screen India, February 2, 2012
...actresses to twiddle their thumbs until their male co-stars can save or seduce them. Not this time. As David Denby notes in his New Yorker review of the film, “In this movie, Craig is modest, quiet, even rather recessive. It’s Mara’s shot at...
BBC, January 26, 2012
...strength, but it's a religion devoted not to spirit or character but to hard, cold numbers" - David Denby, The New Yorker . "As sporting dramas go, Moneyball is as unconventional as its protagonist, which in this arena counts as a good thing" - Jason...
Zimbio, January 24, 2012
...Edward Norton took on the role of Derek Vinyard, a reformed neo-Nazi, in the film American History X. David Denby of The New Yorker noted that Norton gives Derek "ambiguous erotic allure; he's almost appealing". American History X received positive...
E! Online, January 13, 2012
...hasn't won an Oscar yet, this could be his year.) "I gave [The New Yorker film critic] David Denby a kidney for nothing, apparently," cracked Young Adults star Patton Oswalt, who presented after losing to Plummer. "Jerry Lewis once said he didn't think...
EdgeBoston.com, January 5, 2012
...us and the 10 Best Lists start pouring in, "Hugo" figures prominently. It’s at the top of David Denby’s list, in the number two position for Richard Corliss of "Time," and right up there on the lists compiled by Roger Ebert, Peter Travers for...
EdgeBoston.com, January 5, 2012
...us and the 10 Best Lists start pouring in, "Hugo" figures prominently. It’s at the top of David Denby’s list, in the number two position for Richard Corliss of "Time," and right up there on the lists compiled by Roger Ebert, Peter Travers for...
Some Came Running, September 23, 2011
...Call me paranoid, but I was beginning to get a little apprehensive of a "is this a blog about movies, or a blog about slagging movie critics?" backlash, so I figured maybe I ought to snap to it with respect to getting this puppy posted. Et voila. Enjoy....
ReligiousLeftLaw.com, September 18, 2011
...Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East. New York: Palgarave Macmillan, 2009. Touraine, Alain, et al. (David Denby, tr.). Solidarity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983...
ThinkProgress, June 21, 2011
...superior — to men with an entirely different toolkit. Read this profile and critical reassessment of her by David Denby. Then rent The Lady Eve and prepare to die laughing during the mirror scene. 3. Emma Thompson and Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility...
NewsPlurk Entertainment, June 18, 2011
...expansive more Entertainment Weekly ( 6/16/2011 12:46:45 PM -08:00 ) Midnight in America: Renewing the Pantheon Reading David Denby's New Yorker review of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, I was struck by the phrase he uses to describe the director: "The...
The Book Bench, June 9, 2011
...Intentions,” which transposes Laclos’s tale onto “the spoiled youth of an Upper East Side private school,” as David Denby wrote in 1999 , been released this year, the plot would unfold in social networks—maybe not Twitter, but certainly...
Go Into The Story, May 18, 2011
..."Awake in the Dark: An Anthology of American Film Criticism from 1915 to the Present," edited by David Denby "Roger Ebert's Book of Films," Roger Ebert "5001 Nights at the Movies," Pauline Kael "When Movies Mattered: Reviews of a Transformative Decade,"...