Vincent Canby
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.9 points lower than other critics.
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Vincent Canby's Scores
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| Average review score: | 61 | |
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| Highest review score: | Victor Victoria | |
| Lowest review score: | Revolution | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 405 out of 925
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Mixed: 405 out of 925
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Negative: 115 out of 925
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- Vincent Canby
Movies like The Towering Inferno appear to have been less directed than physically constructed. This one is overwrought and silly in its personal drama, but the visual spectacle is first rate. You may not come out of the theater with any important ideas about American architecture or enterprise, but you will have had a vivid, completely safe nightmare.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
The director, the star and the writer make a fine team in this often riotous tale.- The New York Times
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Warlock is unexpectedly entertaining, having been concocted with comic imagination by D. T. Twohy, who wrote the screenplay, and Steve Miner, the director.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
Robin and Marian is a hybrid movie, one that seems embarrassed by feelings; yet it works best when it admits those feelings, when it plays them straight.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
Mr. Russell's Tommy virtually explodes with excitement on the screen. A lot of it is not quite the profound social commentary it pretends to be, but that's beside the point of the fun.- The New York Times
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Siegel has decorated the movie with a lot of colorful bit characters including a chatty, sex‐obsessed old woman, but the action sequences give the film its content as well as style.- The New York Times
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An entertaining movie that, like a video game once played, tends to disappear from one's memory bank as soon as it's finished.- The New York Times
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Miss Livingston's interviews reveal a way of living that is both highly structured and self-protective.- The New York Times
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Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity.- The New York Times
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Daisy Miller transfers to the screen simply and elegantly. Very little is lost that isn't regained through the always unpredictable conjunction of performers with material.- The New York Times
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Almost always entertaining to watch and infuriatingly wrong in several important ways, chief among these being the casting of Miss Adjani as Marya.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
The Mighty Quinn is an entertaining, touristy sort of movie that manages to be lighthearted without being soft in the head.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
The movie, which looks as if it had been made on an A-picture budget, has a lot of the zest one associates with special-effects-filled B-pictures.- The New York Times
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The revelations explode predictably, like the ingredients of a 24-hour cold capsule, but the dramatic impact is real while one is watching it.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
Designed for everybody who still hasn't had his or her fill of break dancing, or who doesn't yet understand that break dancing, rap singing and graffiti are legitimate expressions of the urban artistic impulse.- The New York Times
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Big Business, which, though it never quite delivers the boffo payoff, is a most cheerful, very breezy summer farce, played to the hilt by two splendidly comic performers.- The New York Times
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The Fortune Cookie is no more sunny--and, if possible, even less romantic--than Kiss Me, Stupid, Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
Mr. Polanski and Mr. Towne attempted nothing so witty and entertaining, being content instead to make a competently stylish, more or less thirites-ish movie that continually made me wish I were back seeing "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Big Sleep." Others may not be as finicky. [21 June 1974]- The New York Times
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The story it tells is so outsized, bizarre, funny, and eccentric, the movie compels attention. [11 Apr 1980, p.6]- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet is a brisk, entertaining contemporary melodrama about the kind of sleazy characters who populated California crime literature 35 years ago. That's no surprise, since the screenplay, adapted by Robert Redlin and Mr. Foley, is based on Jim Thompson's novel, published in 1955.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
Single White Female is Mr. Schroeder's bid to compete in the mass market, and there's no reason he shouldn't succeed. The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type.- The New York Times
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The Object of Beauty might have been practically perfect escapist entertainment if the screenplay had been as smooth as the cast. Mr. Lindsay-Hogg has written some attractive characters and a lot of bright lines, but he needs a script doctor. He has let the plot confuse things.- The New York Times
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Fool for Love has several exceptional things going for it, namely the performances by Mr. Shepard as Eddie, Kim Basinger as May and Harry Dean Stanton as the Old Man.- The New York Times
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The trouble with My Life as a Dog is that too often it imposes an alien sensibility upon the boy, requiring that he behave in a way that adults can too easily identify as charming. My Life as a Dog is a movie with a split point of view.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
A fragmented, far from‐great movie, and it won't change cinema history, but in its own odd fashion it celebrates humdrum lives without ever resorting to patronizing artifice.- The New York Times
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Its grossness—its bigger-than-life quality — is so much a part of its style (and what West was writing about) that one respects the extravagances, the almost lunatic scale on which Mr. Schlesinger has filmed its key sequences.- The New York Times
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Thieves Like Us is such an engaging, sharply observed account of a long-lost time, and of some of the people who briefly inhabited it, that I hope it doesn't get confused with other films that seem, superficially anyway, to have covered the same territory.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
The Trail of the Pink Panther is less a conventional comedy than an uproarious retrospective devoted to the particular achievements of the Edwards-Sellers collaboration. Some of the routines seem totally new to me, and others are familiar, but either way, most of them are huge fun, and a couple approach greatness.- The New York Times
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- Vincent Canby
I like its music, its drive and its determination, even when it's pretending to a kind of innocence and naiveté that I never for a second believe.- The New York Times
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