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Vincent Canby

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Publications:: New York Times

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4/5	63%	The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)	" A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America." — New York Times Posted May 8, 2013
1.5/5	25%	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)	" Preminger doesn't direct movies as much as he makes frontal assaults on them." — New York Times Posted May 8, 2013
4/5	60%	Gaily, Gaily ()	" A movie of great and exuberant charm, one that pays homage to the classic conventions of American farce by defining them with nostalgia and cinematic wit." — New York Times Posted May 6, 2013
3.5/5	——	Warrendale (1967)	" LOike the life it records, it simply exists, beyond criticism." — New York Times Posted Mar 28, 2013
2/5	29%	What? (Diary of Forbidden Dreams) (1973)	" The girl, the villa and the performances are beautiful enough to bridge those sequences when the film, like its heroine, seems searching for explanations that will never be found." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2013
2/5	14%	Animal Behavior (1989)	" The movie plays as if it had not been directed by anyone, or as if someone had come along and attempted to improve whatever the original director had done." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2012
2/5	56%	Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (1973)	" Too many words, I'm convinced, for the screen. It's not simply the quantity of words, though. It's also their ornateness. They overflow the ears and get into the eyes." — New York Times Posted Mar 23, 2011
2/5	——	Act of the Heart (1970)	" There is no grand tragic logic in The Act of the Heart. When I left the theater I simply felt that I'd seen a terrible accident." — New York Times Posted Jan 31, 2011
3/5	67%	Victory (1981)	" The form of the film is conventional, but the manner in which it has been executed is not." — New York Times Posted Aug 13, 2010
3/5	——	Butterfly (1982)	" A most entertainingly sleazy melodrama." — New York Times Posted Nov 11, 2009
—	86%	The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khiladi) (1978)	— New York Times Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	——	La Luna (1979)	— New York Times Posted Jul 16, 2008
—	——	Nihon no Yoru to Kiri (Night and Fog in Japan) (1960)	— New York Times Posted Jul 16, 2008
3/5	100%	Taking Off (1971)	" Mr. Forman's specialty is tender farce played out in what are, essentially, very bleak circumstances." — New York Times Posted Jun 18, 2008
—	83%	Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) (1989)	— New York Times Posted Jun 3, 2008
—	——	Bless Their Little Hearts (2008)	— New York Times Posted May 6, 2008
—	25%	The Flight of the Intruder (1991)	— New York Times Posted Apr 14, 2008
—	83%	Queimada (Burn!) (The Mercenary) (1969)	— New York Times Posted Apr 14, 2008
—	——	How to Commit Marriage (1969)	— New York Times Posted Apr 14, 2008
3/5	——	Fast Break (1979)	" As do some of our most popular standup comedians, Mr. Kaplan sort of floats over his material, always in charge of it, but never deeply involved. This is not a rebuke." — New York Times Posted Mar 24, 2008
2/5	87%	The Exorcist (1973)	" The Exorcist is not an unintelligently put-together film, which makes one all the more impatient with it." — New York Times Posted Mar 19, 2008
4/5	80%	Semi-Tough (1977)	" 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 are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not." — New York Times Posted Jan 25, 2008
3/5	50%	Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult (I Am Curious (Yellow)) (1967)	" I'm not very fond of this sort of moviemaking, which tries to disarm conventional criticism by exploiting formlessness as meaningful itself, but I like Sjoman's sense of humor and sense of humanity, and his obvious affection for Lena." — New York Times Posted Jan 22, 2008
1/5	——	Edith and Marcel ()	" All-awful." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2008
2/5	20%	La Bonne année (The Happy New Year Caper) (1973)	" It bubbles occasionally, but like low-calorie club soda." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2008
4/5	——	Robert Et Robert ()	" They are good company." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2008
2.5/5	——	Death Hunt (1981)	" Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful." — New York Times Posted Dec 26, 2007
2/5	0%	The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)	" The film's major difficulty is the screenplay by Jane Wagner." — New York Times Posted Dec 10, 2007
4.5/5	100%	Trafic (Traffic) (1972)	" Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence." — New York Times Posted Nov 14, 2007
3.5/5	50%	La Chambre Verte (The Green Room) (1979)	" It is a most demanding, original work and one must meet it on its own terms, without expectations of casual pleasures." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2007
2/5	17%	The Arrangement (1969)	" Kazan seems to have turned his search for identity into a callous soap opera, unworthy of a man of Kazan's true talent." — New York Times Posted Nov 1, 2007
0.5/5	——	Best Defense (1984)	" It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction." — New York Times Posted Oct 30, 2007
4.5/5	100%	The Adversary (Pratidwandi) (Siddharta and the City) (2007)	" The Adversary moves so quietly, with such seeming politeness to jaded film senses, that it takes a while to realize that for all its somberness it's a particularly moving comedy." — New York Times Posted Oct 24, 2007
4/5	86%	Edipo re (Oedipus Rex) (1967)	" It's not always necessary to understand Pasolini to be riveted by what he does." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2007
2.5/5	——	Corruption ()	" The contemporary setting works against the kind of tale that was even a bit silly in the pre-heart-transplant era." — New York Times Posted Sep 29, 2007
2.5/5	67%	200 Motels (1971)	" 200 Motels has no particular focal point, being principally an anthology of poor jokes and spectacular audio-visual effects, a few of which might expand the mind, but all of which, taken together, are like an overdose of Novocain." — New York Times Posted Sep 10, 2007
2.5/5	90%	A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker) (Giù la testa) (1972)	" The idiosyncrasies are there, all right, but they have never seemed less interesting." — New York Times Posted Sep 4, 2007
2/5	61%	A Prelude to a Kiss (1992)	" This Prelude to a Kiss is not only without charm and wit, but it's also clumsily set forth: many people seeing it may wonder what, in heaven's name, is going on." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2007
5/5	80%	Ansikte mot Ansikte (Face to Face) (1976)	" Mr. Bergman is more mysterious, more haunting, more contradictory than ever, though the style of the film has never been more precise, clear, levelheaded." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2007
3/5	44%	Black Moon (1975)	" There is an order to this film, but we must supply it, each according to his needs." — New York Times Posted Jun 23, 2007
—	——	Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij (1976)	— New York Times Posted Jun 16, 2007
2.5/5	——	Up the Academy (1980)	" Cheerfully and rudely haphazard." — New York Times Posted May 30, 2007
—	——	Transes ()	— New York Times Posted May 12, 2007
—	——	Maidstone ()	— New York Times Posted Apr 7, 2007
3.5/5	88%	Slap Shot (1999)	" Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view." — New York Times Posted Mar 14, 2007
—	——	Soft Beds, Hard Battles (Party for Hitler) (Undercovers Hero) ()	— New York Times Posted Feb 3, 2007
—	——	The Outfit (1974)	— New York Times Posted Oct 28, 2006
—	——	Deadfall (1968)	— New York Times Posted Oct 14, 2006
4/5	——	Kazoku gêmu (The Family Game) (1983)	" The Family Game is not always easy to follow, but it's almost always funny and, from the opening shots until the last, it's a visual adventure." — New York Times Posted Sep 30, 2006

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