David Denby
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47% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
David Denby's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 66 | |
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| Highest review score: | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | |
| Lowest review score: | Wild Wild West | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 375 out of 633
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Mixed: 212 out of 633
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Negative: 46 out of 633
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- David Denby
Yet as art this revisionist movie, grimly effective as some of it is, doesn't hold a candle to the remarkable cycle of pictures in the late seventies and the eighties which captured the discordant character of a tragic war. [11 Mar 2002, p. 92]- The New Yorker
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- David Denby
The characters observe no boundaries, and neither does the movie--Baumbach hasn’t worked out the struggle between speaking and withholding, as Bergman did. People simply blurt out scathing remarks, so there’s little power in the revelations and betrayals. “Margot” is sensually as well as dramatically impoverished.- The New Yorker
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- David Denby
Observant and true. The pleasure of it lies not in its emotions, which are distinctly on the tepid side, but in the intimacy of its reporting. [28 July 2003, p.94]- The New Yorker
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- David Denby
A brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool--a man who understands everything about nature except death.- The New Yorker
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