Review of Lenny (1974) by Vincent Canby for The New York Times — 06 Mar 1980
One-fourth of the film is so brilliant—and so brilliantly acted by Dustin Hoffman—that it helps cool one's impatience with the rest of the film, which is much more fancily edited and photographed but no more profound than those old movie biographies Jack L.
Warner used to grind out about people like George Gershwin, Mark Twain and Dr. Ehrlich.
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This review of Lenny (1974) was written by Vincent Canby and published by The New York Times on 06 Mar 1980.
Lenny has generally received positive reviews.
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