Richard Corliss

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

— Richard Corliss

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

— Richard Corliss

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

— Richard Corliss

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

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Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

— Richard Corliss

'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

You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find…

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In 'The Birth of a Nation,' Griffith made audiences see the Civil War through his eyes - the eyes of the son…

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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

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

— Richard Corliss

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what…

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I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first…

— Richard Corliss

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

In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use…

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After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with 'The Last Stand,' a modern Western, then crammed into…

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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

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or…

— Richard Corliss

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

'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

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch.…

— Richard Corliss

'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate…

— Richard Corliss

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year…

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I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had…

— Richard Corliss

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

Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its…

— Richard Corliss

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx…

— Richard Corliss

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

To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you…

— Richard Corliss

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

— Richard Corliss

Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.

— Richard Corliss

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an…

— Richard Corliss

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

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

— Richard Corliss

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

Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.

— Richard Corliss

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

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

— Richard Corliss

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

— Richard Corliss

Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.

— Richard Corliss

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