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Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there.
Nov 22, 1976 · Throughout the movie we are asked to believe that his Rocky is compassionate, interesting, even heroic, though the character we see is simply an unconvincing actor imitating a lug."Rocky," which...
Vincent Canby reviews and compares two current plays, Marie Christine at Vivian Beaumont Theater and In the Blood at Joseph Papp Public Theater; also reviews Liza Minnelli's tribute to her...
Oct 17, 2000 · Vincent Canby, who influenced moviegoers and theater audiences for more than three decades with his sophisticated, often wryly humorous reviews in the New York Times, died of cancer Sunday in...
Vincent Canby was born in Barrington and got his first newspaper job in 1948 on the old Chicago Journal of Commerce. In 1951, he left Chicago to take a job with lousy pay at Variety in New York. That job eventually led to his present one - as principal film critic of the New York Times.
Aug 15, 1979 · At its confused heart: a fearful hunger to survive. No matter what.When it is thus evoking the look and feelings of the Vietnam War, dealing in sense impressions for which no explanations are...
