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
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found… — Richard Corliss Adventure 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
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 Actors 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
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
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 Bond Copy Share Image
Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about. — Richard Corliss About 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 Between 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
'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a… — Richard Corliss Action Copy Share Image
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a… — Richard Corliss Irony Copy Share Image
The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch.… — Richard Corliss Baseball 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
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
Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity on his very own. Listening to… — Richard Corliss America Copy Share Image
After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with 'The Last Stand,' a modern Western, then crammed into… — Richard Corliss California Copy Share Image
'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The… — Richard Corliss Audience 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
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
In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use… — Richard Corliss Last 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
Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal… — Richard Corliss Age 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
'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate… — Richard Corliss Best Copy Share Image