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
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great… — Richard Corliss 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 Copy Share Image
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the… — Richard Corliss 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
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found… — 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 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 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 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 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
Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront… — 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
It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most… — Richard Corliss 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 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
The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath'… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
'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 Image
'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 Image
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 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 promised land… — Richard Corliss 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
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 Image
