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 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
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
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes… — Richard Corliss California 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a… — Richard Corliss Cinema 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 Copy Share Image
The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show.… — Richard Corliss Adventure 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 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 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
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
The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without much computer graphics finery… — Richard Corliss 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
