'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its… — Richard Corliss May 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
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
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 Drama 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
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
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
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss History 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
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to… — Richard Corliss Endure Copy Share Image
From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was… — Richard Corliss Actress 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
Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the… — Richard Corliss Divine 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
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
Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry. — Richard Corliss Always 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
'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
If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films… — Richard Corliss Beatles 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
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
'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
If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx… — Richard Corliss Brothers Copy Share Image
