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Vincent Canby

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The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “"The Wiz" does look expensive, but it's not much fun.” – New York Times Nov 18, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “Mr. Reiner and his associates have made one of the season's most satisfying comedies, as well as the rock-concert-tour film that tops all the others.” – New York Times Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Derivative material, perhaps, but it is nicely acted by a lot of young black actors, including Glynn Turman and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs.” – New York Times Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “It's full of the old Meyer preoccupations — insatiable women, impotent men, lonely desert landscapes in which the promise of sex is the only reliable compass. Yet something has been lost. Could it be innocence?” – New York Times Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Pink Narcissus (1971) 62% EDIT “It is sad and very vulnerable, and as serious as it is sappy. ” – New York Times Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 34% EDIT “The movie is not funny, and it's not moving. It is mere exploitation.” – New York Times Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “"Capone" is not great but it moves with cold efficiency, which is its style whether you like it or not.” – New York Times Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “Withnail and I is not the whole story of the 60's. It's a small, wise, breezy footnote.” – New York Times Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Le Samouraï (1967) 92% EDIT “[Le Samouraï], with Delon doing what he does best (looking impassive and slightly tarnished), is a lovely introduction to the work of a most idiosyncratic filmmaker.” – New York Times Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Mr. Ricco (1975) 30% EDIT “It's such a clumsy movie it makes all the actor look dreadful, which may or may not be the fact.” – New York Times Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “I was struck by how much we knew of the characters, by the variety of associations we have with them, even though the screenplay, like most good screenplays, never indulges in the kind of character expedition that we take for granted in written fiction.” – New York Times Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Heavenly Bodies (1985) 17% EDIT “Not as stylish has Flashdacne, though it is, possibly, funnier, especially in its climax. ” – New York Times Apr 15, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% EDIT “Genial, slapdash, high-spirited and occasionally moving.” – New York Times Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Goodbye Again (1961) 60% EDIT “The secret storm raging within heroine Ingrid Bergman is: vintage formula stuff (which man will she choose?), but here it’s told in comparative adult, often witty terms.” – Variety Mar 18, 2024 Full Review Point of Order (1963) 100% EDIT “In a film of its kind, it's difficult to to know where the praise should go, but certainly, in addition to de Antonio and Talbot, to editor Robert Duncan and editorial consultants David Bazelon and Richard: Rovere.” – Variety Mar 18, 2024 Full Review The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) EDIT “This new film, while almost completely devoid of dramatic highlight, is an appealing and sentimental valentine to one of America’s great entertainers.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Mar 18, 2024 Full Review Freckles (1960) EDIT “Though [Freckles] generates very little suspense, there is a kind of appealing naivete about it, particularly in the depiction of a villain who is down deep, a good a noble soul.” – Variety Mar 11, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “Mr. Polanski and Mr. Towne have attempted nothing so witty and entertaining, being content instead to make a competently stylish, more or less thirtyish movie that continually made me wish I were back seeing The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep.” – New York Times Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “An important movie by one of our most interesting directors. It is also one of the maybe half dozen American movies of this year that won't make you ponder the possibility of a subsidy plan to pay film makers not to work.” – New York Times Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Typhoon Club (1985) 83% EDIT “They describe the action without ever interpreting it. After a while, one realizes that there really isn't an awful lot to interpret.” – New York Times Aug 25, 2023 Full Review The Last Boy Scout (1991) 46% EDIT “When automobiles are not crashing, going over embankments or being blown up (the film's favorite mode of distressing a car), someone falls atop the rotors of a helicopter in mid-air. The body count is high.” – New York Times Aug 4, 2023 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% EDIT “Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation.” – New York Times Jul 27, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “Mr. Spielberg's curious achievement is not in making a movie of any original artistic merit, but a movie that's satisfying just because of his mastery of clichés. ” – New York Times May 25, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “To get to the point immediately, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.” – New York Times May 4, 2023 Full Review The Evil Dead (1981) 85% EDIT “It's a great audience participation show. It's just intriguing enough to grab the audience and then, in the way it uses its clichés, absurd enough to invite the audience to talk back to it.” – New York Times Mar 24, 2023 Full Review
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