'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 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 my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong. — 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 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
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
A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's… — 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 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
