Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for… — Richard Corliss Belief Copy Share Image
The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without much computer graphics finery… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Fury Copy Share Image
Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he… — Richard Corliss Bad luck Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Art Copy Share Image
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie… — Richard Corliss Children 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… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
So why am I an A's fan? Because, from 1901 to 1954, they were the Philadelphia Athletics. Philadelphia is my home town.… — Richard Corliss Baseball Copy Share Image
For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a… — Richard Corliss Cinema Copy Share Image
The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show.… — Richard Corliss Adventure Copy Share Image
Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise,… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on… — Richard Corliss Alone Copy Share Image
Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender… — Richard Corliss Country Copy Share Image
I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
The music was the best thing about the Four Seasons and the central asset of the 'Jersey Boys' show. By concentrating on… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door… — Richard Corliss Bucket list Copy Share Image
In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things… — Richard Corliss Animators Copy Share Image
'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's… — Richard Corliss Boundaries Copy Share Image
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader… — Richard Corliss Books Copy Share Image
How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death… — Richard Corliss Death Copy Share Image
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes… — Richard Corliss California Copy Share Image
