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November 3, 2022
Tori Otten
Why Did Rihanna Invite Johnny Depp to the Fenty Show?
Rihanna and her team specifically invited him to take part, according to reports.
May 16, 2022
Natalie Shure
Stop Trying to Extract Larger Lessons From the Amber Heard–Johnny Depp Trial
The celebrity pair’s sad and sordid relationship isn’t a unified field theorem that explains contemporary politics.
August 7, 2020
MagazineLidija Haas
The Brutal World of Waiting for the Barbarians
Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.
April 18, 2014
David Thomson
'Transcendence' Is So Bad You'll Start to Feel Sorry for Johnny Depp
August 6, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Johnny Depp's Delusions About Why 'The Lone Ranger' Flopped
July 9, 2013
David Thomson
Depp v. Pitt: The Dual Fate of the Leading Man
May 15, 2012
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: How Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Became Shadows of Their Former Selves
May 21, 2011
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: Who Killed Jack Sparrow?
May 20, 2010
David Hajdu
Triumph of the Gypsies
July 8, 2009
David Thomson
Execution Without Conviction
July 2, 2009
Christopher Orr
The Movie Review: 'Public Enemies'
May 14, 2008
The New Republic
Is Jonah Hill The New Johnny Depp?
February 27, 2008
Christopher Benfey
A Close Shave

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