Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about. — Richard Corliss About Copy Share Image
The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small. — Richard Corliss Big Copy Share Image
It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is… — Richard Corliss Actor Copy Share Image
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV. — Richard Corliss Creepy 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
Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry. — Richard Corliss Always Copy Share Image
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy. — Richard Corliss Eyes Copy Share Image
In the greed-is-good tradition of the 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' movie franchises, the overseers of 'The Hunger Games' have split the last… — Richard Corliss Book Copy Share Image
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism. — Richard Corliss Conservatism Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Debate 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
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 Bad 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
On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising… — Richard Corliss American 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 Best 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
'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
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
Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its… — Richard Corliss Dark Copy Share Image
If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx… — Richard Corliss 1930s 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
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
In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year… — Richard Corliss Blade runner 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
Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing… — Richard Corliss Beauty Copy Share Image
[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed… — Richard Corliss Ashes Copy Share Image
Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in… — Richard Corliss Actor Copy Share Image
'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would… — Richard Corliss Ambition 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
One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their… — Richard Corliss Avatars Copy Share Image
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what… — Richard Corliss Black hole 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 Country 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
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 Film Copy Share Image
In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son… — Richard Corliss Army 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 Alone 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
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