In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with… — Richard Corliss Band 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
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 Find 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 Dark 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
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces… — Richard Corliss Attractive 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… — Richard Corliss Could 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
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
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
'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 Always 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 American 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
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 Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and… — Richard Corliss Birth 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
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
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
The music was the best thing about the Four Seasons and the central asset of the 'Jersey Boys' show. By concentrating on… — Richard Corliss Best 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
No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with… — Richard Corliss Achievement Copy Share Image
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. — Richard Corliss Air 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
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
