In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of… — Richard Corliss Editing 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 Arnold 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
'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on… — Richard Corliss Documentary 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
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
'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
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss… — Richard Corliss Boyhood 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
'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 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
Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with… — Richard Corliss Baseball 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
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
Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as… — Richard Corliss Cards 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
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
Although the Academy prefers their Best Pictures grounded in realism, not fantasy, Lee's 'Life of Pi' win proved that the voters understand… — 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
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an… — Richard Corliss Boyhood 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
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
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
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
'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 Interstellar 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
'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
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
For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into… — Richard Corliss Action film Copy Share Image
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She… — Richard Corliss Birthday Copy Share Image
