David Denby (film critic)

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David Denby is an American film critic who writes for The New Yorker. He published a book titled Great Books about the Western canon. Denby previously reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved", he made an eerily prescient comment about our current president. He stated that Matthew Broderick's title character from the hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off was "like a junior George Bush. He can screw around all he likes because he knows he will inherit the kingdom".