The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to… — Richard Corliss Business Copy Share Image
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an… — Richard Corliss Art Copy Share Image
I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first… — Richard Corliss Art Copy Share Image
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong. — Richard Corliss Cinema Copy Share Image
To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you… — Richard Corliss Darkness Copy Share Image
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what… — Richard Corliss Black hole Copy Share Image
'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its… — Richard Corliss Interstellar 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 Divine Copy Share Image
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into… — Richard Corliss Action film Copy Share Image
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She… — Richard Corliss Birthday Copy Share Image
'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator'… — Richard Corliss Bible Copy Share Image
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great… — Richard Corliss Escape Copy Share Image
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year… — Richard Corliss Blade runner 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 America Copy Share Image
In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are… — Richard Corliss Books Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Book 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 Dark Copy Share Image
'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 Image
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's… — Richard Corliss Alone 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 Film Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Army Copy Share Image
Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life? — Richard Corliss Country Copy Share Image
Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in… — Richard Corliss Actor Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Debate Copy Share Image
Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing… — Richard Corliss Beauty Copy Share Image
[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed… — Richard Corliss Ashes Copy Share Image
'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would… — Richard Corliss Ambition Copy Share Image
Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food. — Richard Corliss Baseball Copy Share Image
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their… — Richard Corliss Avatars Copy Share Image
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
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