Review of War Horse (2011) by David Denby for New Yorker — 30 Dec 2011
Since he's (Spielberg) a director largely incapable of understatement, War Horse is served up with a self-aggrandizing, distracting surplus of Norman Rockwell backlighting, aerial landscape shots designed to out-swoop David Lean's, and an aggravated sense of doggone wonderment amplified by the director's dependence on John Williams's bombastic score.
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This review of War Horse (2011) was written by David Denby and published by New Yorker on 30 Dec 2011.
War Horse has generally received positive reviews.
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