In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form. — Richard Corliss Copy Share
You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me. — Richard Corliss Copy Share
In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences… — Richard Corliss Copy Share
