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Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, debuting as a Broadway actor opposite Marisa Tomei, "should be humiliated" by his performance (Vincent Canby, the New York Times ). His faults are said to range from the small (he can't render accents) to the large (he exhibits the "charisma of a week-old head of lettuce," says the New York Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole).
The biography itself, which uses unpublished diaries and untapped Cuban government archives, is praised for having done a "masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth" (Peter Canby, the New York Times Book Review ). The Weekly Standard 's Stephen Schwartz calls it tainted for having received "official support" from the Castro regime and for abetting a Che revival.
Before Canby, Bosley Crowther ruled the roost for three decades.
The New York Times ' Vincent Canby says Spielberg has "revived a type of patriotic war movie you might think went out of fashion" after the glut of Vietnam War-horror flicks of the '80s.
On the contrary: Vincent Canby wrote from high atop a pedestal, panned The Godfather Part II , and indulged in an inexplicable love of Blake Edwards.