Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal to fantasy films of the 'Star Wars' stripe, which told more or less the same story - elemental… — 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 Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman… — 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
