Seeking inspiration from Vincent Canby’s Gothic trestle table. By Julie Besonen Because of the pandemic, I have Vincent Canby’s desk. Millions of witty words must have drummed from his ...

Vincent Canby, who delivered trenchant insights, sober judgments and wry humor in film and theater reviews in The New York Times for more than 35 years, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 76.

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 ...

“A difficult work to judge coherently,” is how critic Vincent Canby characterized “The Spook Who Sat By the Door” in his 1973 review of the film, adapted from Sam Greenlee’s Chicago-set ...

As the first-string film critic for The New York Times from 1969 to 1993, Vincent Canby had a hand in making New York a moviegoing town to rival Paris. Canby died of cancer on October 15 at the ...

In an era of entertainment as a pervasive, ever-changing feature of American life, Mr. Canby was the ubiquitous, anonymous man in the aisle seat, taking it all in tonight for a million readers ...

Other quotes from critics such as Roger Ebert, John Simon, Stanley Kauffmann, Vincent Canby and Rex Reed similarly flash across the screen, offering harsh critiques of Coppola’s work on ...

Also to mixed reviews from harrumphing critics. Typical was Vincent Canby, whose New York Times review lamented the film's "desperate, bone crushing efforts to be funny." The critics eventually ...

NEW YORK — Vincent Canby, the critic whose movie and theater reviews appeared for 35 years in the New York Times and before that Variety, died Sunday at Manhattan’s Columbia-Presbyterian ...