Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful. — Vincent Canby Copy Share
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset,… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or… — Vincent Canby Copy Share
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share
