Canby
Proper noun
Meaning
Canby
A census-designated place in Modoc County, California, United States.
Phrases with the word
Examples
About the Fiennes Hamlet Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that it was "… not one for literary sleuths and Shakespeare scholars.
Canby echoed praise for Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise … he's so good—so obsessed—that you might think he wrote his own lines".
Canby believed that while the film did not match the previous two in its pacing, it still had "hilariously off-the-wall sequences" such as the circus train chase.
Canby also said D'Onofrio's performance should be noted with "admiration", and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation".
Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s, Rutgers University Press (2010) p. 4 with Bette Midler on Bette Midler TV Special (1977) Vincent Canby of the New York Times described the film as "a spellbinding detective story."
Canby concluded: Full Metal Jacket was "a film of immense and very rare imagination".