Laurel and Hardy – by Vincent Canby
During the last ten years or so, movie producers have been ravaging Laurel and Hardy features and shorts for scenes that they have then compiled into anthology features, some more lovingly and…
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Summer of ’42 (1971) – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
Robert Mulligan's Summer of '42 is a memory movie, written, directed and acted with such uncommon good humor that I don't think you'll be put off by its sweet soft-focus, at least…
‘Barry Lyndon’: Kubrick’s Latest Has Brains And Beauty
Barry Lyndon is a leisurely, serious, witty, inordinately beautiful, premium-length screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., published in 1844 and set in the second…
Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ is Brilliant in Its Images – Review by Vincent Canby
Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's handsome, assured screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, is so long and leisurely, so panoramic in its narrative scope, that it's as much an environment as…
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Reviews by Vincent Canby
Luis Buñuel's brilliant new comedy, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie), is so free in form and yet so lucid and wise that it could give…
STRAW DOGS: HAS MOVIE VIOLENCE GONE TOO FAR? – Review by Vincent Canby
It may be about time for movies to realize that they aren’t realistic. They are, for all the reality of their locales and of their actors and of their circumstances, only representations…
An American Tail (1986) | Reviews
The following is a collection of reviews for "An American Tail, "the 1986 animated film directed by Don Bluth and written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss.
THE GODFATHER – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
Taking a best-selling novel of more drive than genius (Mario Puzo's The Godfather), about a subject of something less than common experience (the Mafia), involving an isolated portion of one very particular…
THE DEER HUNTER – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
Vincent Canby reviews Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" for The New York Times, December 15, 1978
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now lives up to its grand title, disclosing not only the various faces of war but also the contradictions between excitement and boredom, terror and pity, brutality and beauty.