David Denby (film critic)

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David Denby is an American film critic who writes for The New Yorker. Denby previously reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved?", Denby made an eerily prescient comment regarding our current president. Discussing the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he remarked that Ferris was like George Bush, Jr., in that he could screw around all he wanted because he knew that one day he would be top dog.

He published a book titled Great Books about the Western canon-oriented Core Curriculum taught at his alma mater, Columbia University. He also wrote the well received American Sucker, which details his investing misadventures in the stock market during the hi-tech boom while also in the midst of a divorce from Cathleen Schine and a major reassessment of his life.