Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

I shall title this review Das Weisse Band, with the subtitle “In which we shall discuss the glorious enlightenment that a director of cinema shall bequeath unto an audience

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Surowiecki’s single-page essays are almost always an inspired read. After some trenchant analysis, he points out perhaps the biggest contradiction in the current health-care reform package:

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The New Yorker‘s back-up film critic has just published a surprising review of Hancock that is an unqualified rave. If critics were cars, Denby would be a Ford Taurus. His writing is clear and logical, and almost as exciting as a tan-colored, four-door sedan. He not only lacks the flamboyance and savage wit of Anthony [...]

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David Denby, one of two film reviewers for the New Yorker takes a look at the teen step-dancing film “How She Move” this week. Denby is usually a fusty old stick-in-the-mud, but like a blind squirrel, he occasionally stumbles into an excellent piece of analysis. He begins the review with a fantastic summation of everything [...]

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