Vincent Canby

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The New York Times
For 925 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Vincent Canby's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Victor Victoria
Lowest review score: 0 Revolution
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 405 out of 925
  2. Mixed: 405 out of 925
  3. Negative: 115 out of 925
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The 'Burbs
    So little goes on that it might be argued that The Burbs means to be a comment on the vacuity of popular entertainment in the television age, though it's much more an example of it. The film does nothing for the reputation of anyone connected with it, including Mr. Hanks, who deserves the Oscar nomination he has just received for his work in Big. This time he's attempting to act a role in a screenplay whose pages are blank.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Blame It on Rio
    Though the scenery can't be faulted, there's not a single funny or surprising moment in the movie. However, Blame It on Rio is not simply humorless. It also spreads gloom. It's one of those unfortunate projects that somehow suggests that everyone connected with the movie hated it and all of the other people involved.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Le Pont du Nord
    It's another example of the ever-widening gap between the real world and the fantasies of a kind of artistic temperament more concerned with random self expression than with the expression of coherent feelings or ideas about love, alienation, outrage, politics or even of movie-making. It shrivels the imagination instead of enriching it. [7 Oct. 1981]
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Class
    The movie can't make up its mind whether it's a lighthearted comedy, set in what appears to be a posh New England-style prep school just outside Chicago, or a romantic drama about a teen-age boy who has a torrid affair with his roommate's mother. Either way it's pretty awful.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Tarzan the Ape Man
    As an actress (Derek) displays the sort of fausse naivete that is less erotic than perfunctorily calculated, in the manner of an old-fashioned, pre-porn-era stripteaser who might have started her act dressed like Heidi. This isn't Tarzan, the Ape Man. It's ''Little Bo Peep.''..The kind of movie that might seem funny when seen after several martinis. Viewed stone-sober, it's a movie of more squirms than screams.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Trespass
    With the exception of a running gag about the gangsters' use of cellular telephones, the film is singularly humorless. Though full of the kind of simulated violence achieved by special-effects artists, it's not too heavy on suspense. Everything in the screenplay seems arbitrary, including the firefighting jobs assigned to the two would-be treasure-seekers.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Bedroom Window
    The only thing The Bedroom Window seems to be about is movie making - that is, it's about putting pieces of film together to create momentary effects that needn't signify anything at all. Sometimes this is called ''pure cinema.'' Sometimes, in fact, it's pure nonsense.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Twins
    In Twins, which is supposed to be funny, the former Mr. Universe and pint-sized Danny DeVito play twins, the result of a genetic experiment that went awry. To the extent that Twins is carried by anybody, it is carried by Mr. DeVito. Mr. Schwarzenegger is dead weight. [9 Dec 1988, p.C18]
    • The New York Times
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Leprechaun
    The title character in the new horror film titled Leprechaun is supposed to be fiendish but, though the movie's body count is respectable, he seems to be no more than dangerously cranky. That may be because the setting is rural North Dakota, which doesn't suit leprechauns, or because the screenplay and direction are amateurish, which doesn't suit films of any kind. [09 Jan 1993, p.17]
    • The New York Times
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Three Men and a Cradle
    Three Men and a Cradle is almost totally charmless. It's funny in the way of someone who, in attempting to explain a joke, thoroughly destroys the humor, which, I assume, is mostly the fault of Coline Serreau, who wrote and directed it.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Death Wish II
    Even more foolish, more tacky and more self righteously inhumane than the 1974 melodrama off which it has been spun by the none-too-nimble fingers of Michael Winner, who directed the original film.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Race with the Devil
    This is a ridiculous mishmash of a movie for people who never grew up, which is not so say it's for children. One would think that Mr. Fonda and Mr. Oates had better things to do, but perhaps not. American movie production is in a bad state.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Solarbabies
    There are times when it appears that Solarbabies might be sending itself up. All of the time, it's an embarrassment.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Talk Radio
    A mess of a movie that comes complete with a conventional beginning, middle and end, and long, spongy flashbacks...a nearly perfect example of how not to make a movie of a play.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Believers
    An absurd, especially cheerless movie about child-sacrificing devil-worshippers who've slipped out of Africa and, via East Harlem, have come down into midtown Manhattan to infiltrate the ranks of the white establishment. In addition to everything else that's wrong, The Believers is more than a little bit racist.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Conversation Piece
    Conversation Piece is a disaster, the kind that prompts giggles from victims in the audience who, willingly, sit through it all feeling as if they were drowning in three inches of water.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 0 Vincent Canby
    Revolution
    It's also a mess, but one that's so giddily misguided that it's sometimes a good deal of fun for all of the wrong reasons...It's so bad that one suspects there must be a good story behind it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Heaven's Gate
    Nothing in the movie works properly. For all of the time and money that went into it, it's jerry-built, a ship that slides straight to the bottom at its christening. Heaven's Gate is something quite rare in movies these days - an unqualified disaster.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Harlem Nights
    Harlem Nights is not the disaster some people might have been expecting. Mr. Murphy has appeared in far worse films written and directed by people much more experienced.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Somewhere in Time
    The screenplay is priceless (funny) and it's Mr. Reeve who sets the film's tone. Unfortunately, his unshadowed good looks, granite profile, bright naivete and eagerness to please - the qualities that made him such an ideal Superman - look absurd here.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Student Bodies
    Student Bodies just slowly topples over as you watch it, like a stand-up comedian in the act of failing.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Silver Bullet
    It's also not easy convincing the audience. The werewolf, when it finally comes onto the screen, looks less like a wolf than Smokey Bear with a terrible hangover.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Mack
    Even as action melodrama of a Shaft sort, the film is inept, so confused that occasionally it seems surreal.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Season of the Witch
    Hungry Wives has the seedy look of a porn film but without any pornographic action. Everything in it, from the actors to the props, looks borrowed and badly used. [12 Dec 1980, p.8]
    • The New York Times
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Untamed Heart
    Untamed Heart is to the mind what freshly discarded chewing gum is to the sole of a shoe: an irritant that slows movement without any real danger of stopping it.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Body of Evidence
    Body of Evidence ranks with the Edsel. It's not going anywhere. As a movie, it looks as if it wanted to be Basic Instinct, though it winds up more like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Twilight Zone: The Movie
    The film, which opens today at the Sutton and other theaters, is composed of a prologue, written for the movie, plus four separate stories, each of them either based directly on a script from the television series or suggested by one. A lot of money and several lives might have been saved if the producers had just rereleased the original programs.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Not Without My Daughter
    It's a seriously intended movie that goes grossly comic when it means to be most solemn. It's a tale of mother love and freedom that is both mean and narrow.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
    This one, set in a bucolic halfway house for disturbed children, is not entirely without Grand Guignol humor, but almost. It appears to have been paced by a metronome - a joke followed by a murder followed by a joke followed by a murder, until all but one of the featured played have been exterminated...It's worth recognizing only as an artifact of our culture.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Hardware
    Hardware is a sci-fi-horror film of such dopiness that it seems certain to become a cult classic somewhere. Movies that are so insistently silly often have the effect of seeming to expand the mind after midnight, which may have something to do with metabolism if not with controlled substances.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    The Toy
    My mind wasn't simply wandering during the film - it was ricocheting between the screen and the exit sign.
    • 4 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Still Smokin
    With Still Smokin', Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are scraping the bottom of their barrel and finding only bits and pieces of the characters and comedy routines that were so successful in their earlier films, including ''Up in Smoke,'' ''Nice Dreams'' and ''Cheech and Chong's Next Movie.'' [7 May 1983, p.16]
    • The New York Times
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Paradise
    Paradise is The Blue Lagoon with camels.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    The Outsiders
    It is spectacularly out of touch, a laughably earnest attempt to impose heroic attitudes on some nice, small characters purloined from a ''young-adult'' novel by S.E. Hinton, the woman who wrote the novel on which ''Tex'' was based.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    The January Man
    The January Man is well titled. It's a big-budget mainstream production that, in spite of its first-rate writer, director and cast, manages to fail in just about every department.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Skin Deep
    Mr. Ritter is an engagingly comic actor, but the women in his life are so uncharacterized, in the writing, casting and the playing, that the comedy fizzles. All that's left is a movie about a seriously alcoholic writer making a mess of things.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Beastmaster
    It's meant as a tiny bit of praise to say that the movie, which was made in southern California, looks as if it had been shot in Spain or Yugoslavia. It looks both big and cheap.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Saturday the 14th
    It's an unfunny horror-filmparody with a cast headed by Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss and Severn Darden , directed and written by Howard R. Cohen, who shouldn't be trusted to park the cars of such people, much less make a movie with them.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Stroker Ace
    The must-miss movie of the summer. It's a witless retread of the earlier, far funnier road-movie collaborations of Mr. Needham and Mr. Reynolds.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Love Potion #9
    Given the premise, which is said to be inspired by the song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, virtually everything that happens can be predicted from the opening frame.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Return of the Jedi doesn't really end the trilogy as much as it brings it to a dead stop. The film...is by far the dimmest adventure of the lot.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Sniper
    As written, directed and played, Miller is as much of a nonentity as Beckett. Their initial enmity and subsequent reconciliation have no more dramatic impact than the battle scenes, which look as if they were planned by amateurs. The two central characters remain as vague as their targets, who are briefly seen at a distance through gun sights.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Fire Birds
    Fire Birds has one director (David Green), two writers (Nick Thiel and Paul F. Edwards) and many laughs, all of them unintentional.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Little Big Man
    The film tries to cover too much ground, even though Calder Willingham's script eliminates or telescopes events and characters from the Berger novel.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Package
    The Package is a feeble attempt to keep the old-fashioned cold-war thriller alive in this era of glasnost...Mr. Davis has directed what may be the worst movie Gene Hackman has ever made.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Great Gatsby
    Nothing that Mr. Clayton does with the actors or with the camera comes close to catching the spirit of Fitzgerald's impatient brilliance. The film transforms "Gatsby" into a period love story that seems to take itself as solemnly as "Romeo and Juliet."
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Shivers
    It's apparent that someone connected with They Came From Within has an impertinent sense of humor even though the film is so tackily written and directed, so darkly photographed and the sound so dimly recorded, that it's difficult to stay with it.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    It's not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be. Its 134 minutes induce a state of simulated brain death, an effect as easily attained in half the time by staring at the blinking lights on a Christmas tree.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Loaded Weapon 1
    Watching Loaded Weapon 1 is like playing Trivial Pursuit with experts. It's exhausting.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Firewalker
    It stars Chuck Norris in what his associates describe as ''the first comedy role in his action-packed career.'' How can they tell? Certainly not from the film, which is lightweight without being lighthearted.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Fat Man and Little Boy
    Fat Man and Little Boy is so confused, so stunningly ineffective, that General Groves's hawkish statements are more persuasive than the dove-ish apprehensions expressed by the scientists. Even the sight of a scientist dying horribly of radiation poisoning fails to be moving.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Gotcha!
    Gotcha is about as devoid of personality as it's possible for a narrative movie to be.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    They All Laughed
    It's aggressive in its ineptitude. It grates on the nerves like a 78 rpm record played at 33 rpm.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Mackenna's Gold
    The structure of the movie is so loose that a narrator (Victor Jory) must be employed from time to time to explain the plot, as if it were a serial. Most surprising in a movie that obviously cost a good deal of money is the sloppy matching of exterior and studio photography with miniature work for special effects.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    Meant to be funny, but it only swells the sinus passages. It is a painfully inept comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Harry and the Hendersons
    Attention must be paid when a movie is as aggressively awful as Harry and the Hendersons, though it's so pin-headed that it could be the last of its inbred line. It's not likely to spawn.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Heroes
    Heroes, co-starring Henry (The Fonz) Winkler and Sally (The Flying Nun) Field, brings to the motion-picture theater all of the magic of commercial television except canned laughter. Well, no truly rotten movie is perfect. Harrison Ford, who may be one of the most-seen movie actors of the day because of his role in Star Wars, is effective in a supporting role too small to make the picture worth seeing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Capricorn One
    An expensive stylistically bankrupt suspense melodrama.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Above the Law
    Come the end of the year, Above the Law may well rank among the top three or four goofiest bad movies of 1988.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Crimewave
    It's full of film knowledge and is amazingly elaborate for a low-budget movie. The only problem is that it's not funny. One smiles at the inspiration of the jokes, though not at their execution.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Pee-wee's Big Adventure
    Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is the most barren comedy I've seen in years, maybe ever.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Flash Gordon
    The best things in the production are the garishly absurd sets. The costumes, including the gold lame athletic supporters worn by the members of Ming's palace guard, suggest an adolescent's fever dream. The pacing is so funereal that this Flash Gordon seems far longer and far less funny that the 15-chapter serial, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), which starred Buster Crabbe. [05 Dec 1980, p.C8]
    • The New York Times
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Vincent Canby
    Her Alibi
    A romantic melodrama of a boringness to make your average tooth extraction seem preferable.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Death Warrant
    All of the performances are terrible, but Joseph Porro's costume design is arresting. Mr. Van Damme and the other prisoner look as if they had been outfitted by an upscale outlet of a Banana Republic-type men's boutique.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Slam Dance
    Put them all together and you have complete confusion, a movie without any identity whatsoever.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Fletch Lives
    Fletch Lives looks less like ''Fletch 2,'' which it is, numerically speaking, than ''Fletch 7,'' the bitter end of a worn-out series.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Grizzly
    Grizzly is not only clumsily plotted, photographed and edited, it is also downright rude when it insists on showing us the bear lopping off an arm or decapitating a horse. Because it's not good enough to earn the right to scare us, I would hope intelligent adults would avoid it and that parents would give it a personal X.
    • 10 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Zapped!
    ZAPPED! is a half-baked, rather retarded parody of Carrie and a number of other films that, using the awesome power of their ignorance, drove telekinesis into the ground.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Harold and Maude
    As performers, they both are so aggressive, so creepy and off‐putting, that Harold and Maude are obviously made for each other, a point the movie itself refuses to recognize with a twist ending that betrays, I think, its life‐affirming pre tensions.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Looker
    The premise, though, is the only satisfying thing about Looker, which Mr. Crichton has directed from his own original, stupifyingly nonsensical screenplay.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    The NeverEnding Story
    The Neverending Story is a graceless, humorless fantasy for children, combining live actors and animated creatures in mostly imaginary settings.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    The Choirboys
    The movie, which Mr. Aldrich directed from a screenplay by Christopher Knopf, is cheap and nasty without having any redeeming vulgarity and absolutely no conviction of truth.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Teen Wolf
    For a film that's so innocuous, Teen Wolf is aggressively boring.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Kafka
    Kafka is opaque without ever being mysterious, frightening or suggestive of anything but movie making. Its chases through dark narrow streets don't create suspense, since nothing is at stake.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Revenge
    A flaccid movie version of Jim Harrison's slightly less flaccid 1979 novella...The movie is soft and aimless. Revenge is the kind of film in which subsidiary characters and events are more interesting than anything the movie is supposed to be about. Even the brutality has no shock effect.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Possession
    It's a movie that contains a certain amount of unseemly gore and makes no sense whatsoever.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Hunter
    An exceptionally clumsy, unpleasant action-melodrama. [1 Aug 1980, p.C12]
    • The New York Times
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    How to Beat the High Cost of Living
    How to Beat the High Cost of Living is a feeble house-fly of a comedy that unsuccessfully attempts to make fun of one of the more dismaying problems of our time: inflation.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Food of the Gods
    There's very little excitement, but quite a few laughs, all provided by the dialogue contributed by Bert I. Gordon, who wrote the screenplay and then produced and directed it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    A Fish Called Wanda
    The dialogue reports funny things instead of showing them. The movie remains in a limbo halfway between the informed anarchy of Monty Python comedy stripped of all social and political satire, and the comparatively genteel comedy of "The Lavender Hill Mob." [15 July 1988, p.C8]
    • The New York Times
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    The Keep
    The movie makes no sense as either melodrama or metaphysics, so that its expensive special effects go up in smoke. Literally.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line is less a movie than an expensive souvenir program.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Harry & Son
    A big-screen blowup of the sort of "I love you, Pop" television play that littered the small screen 25 years ago.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    King Kong Escapes
    The Toho moviemakers are quite good in building miniature sets, but much of the process photography—matching the miniatures with the full-scale shots—is just bad.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Chained Heat
    The combination of the graphic if meaningless title, Miss Blair and the incomparably funny Miss Stevens is almost irresistible. I should have resisted more. [05 Jun 1983, p.19]
    • The New York Times
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Second-Hand Hearts
    Second Hand Hearts needs far more than a change of title to save it from oblivion. It needs a screenplay that doesn't treat its characters as if they were waste baskets to be filled with prose that any self-respecting writer would hide from his best friend.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Blue City
    Blue City is full of unbelievable, ineptly staged action sequences. It's most offensive, however, for its dialogue, and for the frivolous way it debases the shock value of obscene words. If, in 10 years, we wind up with an utterly colorless language, movies like this will have been at least partly to blame.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Running Scared
    Still another, thoroughly depressing demonstration of the extent to which television now dictates the style and the manners of so many of the movies we see in theaters.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    Gross, unfunny...In adapting it to the screen, Mr. De Palma and Michael Cristofer, who wrote the screenplay, have made a series of wrong decisions that have the effect of both softening the satire and making it seem more uncomfortably racist than the Wolfe original.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Sudden Impact
    The screenplay is ridiculous, and Mr. Eastwood's direction of it primitive, which is surprising because he has shown himself capable in such films as ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'' and ''The Gauntlet.''
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Legend
    Mr. Cruise goes through all this nonsense gamely, as if it were an initiation into a fraternity he wants very much to join.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Wisdom
    The problem is that Wisdom is aggressively boring, either because one can predict everything that's going to happen and exactly how it will look on the screen or because the concept of the film eventually seems even more confused than the title character.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Best Defense
    It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
    The Bad News Bears Go to Japan isn't the sort of bad movie that angers you. It's sad in the way of something that's been abandoned. It deserved better from the people involved.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 20 Vincent Canby
    Cocktail
    Cocktail, which opens today at the Cinema 2 and other theaters, is ''Saturday Night Fever'' without John Travolta, the Bee-Gees and dancing. It is an inane romantic drama that only a very young, very naive bartender could love. How it got that way is difficult to understand.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Happy Birthday to Me
    As written by a gang of three totally confused writers and directed, without apparent style, by J. Lee Thompson, it's a mystery-horror movie with a fatal flaw - the denouement, in which a half-dozen grisly murders are explained, requires almost as much footage as the murders themselves.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    Exorcist II: The Heretic
    Exorcist II begins by looking foolish and slowly becomes a straightfaced film of the absurd.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Vincent Canby
    Maniac
    William Lustig is the film's director, and Joe Spinell, who plays the maniac, also collaborated on the screenplay (with C.A. Rosenberg) and wrote the original story. He is terrible in all capacities, though his performance is more immediately objectionable. Watching him act like a psychopathic killer with a mommy-complex is like watching someone else throw up.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Passage
    The performances are very, very bad, and the mountains boring.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Vincent Canby
    The Seduction
    An often comically inept, unsuccessfully vicious nonthriller about a beautiful young woman, her live-in lover and the crazy Peeping Tom who pursues the young woman neither wisely nor well.
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