Vincent Canby

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…

— Vincent Canby

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…

— Vincent Canby

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience…

— Vincent Canby

When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday,…

— Vincent Canby

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

— Vincent Canby

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

— Vincent Canby

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center…

— Vincent Canby

“Lives—even the most carefully managed— are voids filled with echoes”

— Vincent Canby

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

— Vincent Canby

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

— Vincent Canby

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created…

— Vincent Canby

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a…

— Vincent Canby

Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled…

— Vincent Canby

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

— Vincent Canby

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

— Vincent Canby

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

— Vincent Canby

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no…

— Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain…

— Vincent Canby

Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,…

— Vincent Canby

The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much…

— Vincent Canby