At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to… — Richard Corliss Business Copy Share Image
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber. — Richard Corliss Dumber 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong. — Richard Corliss Cinema 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 Art Copy Share Image
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death… — Richard Corliss Death Copy Share Image
I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender… — Richard Corliss Country Copy Share Image
Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on… — Richard Corliss Alone Copy Share Image
Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise,… — Richard Corliss Age 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
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 Aristocrat Copy Share Image
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things… — Richard Corliss Animators 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
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
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In… — Richard Corliss Business 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 Bucket list 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 Children 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
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by… — Richard Corliss Cloud 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 Action Copy Share Image
In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues… — Richard Corliss Betrayal Copy Share Image
As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks… — Richard Corliss Children Copy Share Image
It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher… — Richard Corliss Ambitious Copy Share Image
The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that… — Richard Corliss Actor Copy Share Image
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie… — Richard Corliss Children 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
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 Baseball Copy Share Image
For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's… — Richard Corliss Age 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… — Richard Corliss Band 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 1930s 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 American Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Fury Copy Share Image
Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he… — Richard Corliss Bad luck 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 Big 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
If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have… — Richard Corliss 1950s Copy Share Image
The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the… — Richard Corliss Arrested Copy Share Image
Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and… — Richard Corliss Age Copy Share Image
