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Richard Corliss

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:: Time Canada , TIME Magazine
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 490

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
53%	Safe House (2012)	" Safe House plows through its familiar twists with efficient brio and a distinguished supporting cast." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 9, 2012
85%	In Darkness (2012)	" Real life brims with startling atrocities as well as clich�s, and this film is full of both." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 9, 2012
64%	The Woman in Black (2012)	" The Woman in Black is a welcome addition to the old canon; renouncing innovation, embracing anachronism, it's almost The Artist of ghost movies." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2012
85%	Chronicle (2012)	" The simultaneously diverting and annoying Chronicle, directed by Josh Trask, is something like the 184th Found-Footage Faux-Doc horror movie of the past few years." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2012
51%	Perfect Sense (2012)	" In staying together as their world evaporates into darkness and silence, they are displaying what anyone in love would recognize as quiet heroism - and perfect sense." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 1, 2012
77%	The Grey (2012)	" True to its grim prospectus, The Grey dwells in haunted machismo to the very end." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 26, 2012
29%	Underworld Awakening (2012)	" Of all the movies whose makers designate them as crap by not screening them in advance for critics, forcing me to go to a multiplex in vampire hours and write a review in a sour overnight stupor, Underworld Awakening is one of the best." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2012
89%	Miss Bala (2012)	" An urgent dispatch from the sidelines of the drug war that consumes our southern neighbor." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 19, 2012
80%	Haywire (2012)	" Carano is her own best stuntwoman, but in the dialogue scenes she's all kick and no charisma. The MMA battler lacks the conviction she so forcefully displayed in the ring. She is not Haywire's heroine but its hostage." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 19, 2012
34%	Joyful Noise (2012)	" The critic in me can authoritatively declare that the film is crap. The fan in me sent his shirt to the dry cleaners for tear removal." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 12, 2012
99%	A Separation (2011)	" Simin's and Nader's divorce debate is the first of many complex issues raised and passionately argued in A Separation." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 4, 2012
54%	The Iron Lady (2012)	" The Iron Lady is a clever and oddly touching entertainment." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2011
95%	Pina (2011)	" Pina is, in every way, a moving experience." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2011
63%	We Bought a Zoo (2011)	" There's a word for the strenuous, shameless plucking of an audience's emotions that this movie traffics in: cornography." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2011
75%	The Adventures of Tintin (2011)	" Motion capture, which transforms actors into cartoon characters in a vividly animated landscape, is the technique Spielberg has been waiting for - the Christmas gift ... that he's dreamed of since his movie childhood." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 21, 2011
87%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	" Seeing Fincher's version is like getting a Christmas gift of a book you already have." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2011
93%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)	" I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2011
76%	War Horse (2011)	" Boldly emotional, nakedly heartfelt, War Horse will leave only the stoniest hearts untouched." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 17, 2011
60%	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)	" The shadow in this game is the imposing penumbra of Ritchie's very satisfying 2009 film. It's overt and overwhelming." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2011
71%	Carnage (2011)	" Polanski has earned the right to pursue his career-long demons of confinement and anarchy even in a minor film like this. But Carnage is not the word for what he's perpetrated here. Minor irritation is more like it." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2011
39%	The Other Woman (2011)	" It's a kind of unofficial sequel or sibling, three decades later, to Robert Benton's Oscar-winning Kramer vs. Kramer." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 13, 2011
98%	sex, lies, and videotape (1989)	" What amazes is that at just 26, Soderbergh displays the three qualities associated with mature filmmakers: a unique authorial voice, a spooky camera assurance, and the easy control of ensemble acting." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2011
82%	Young Adult (2011)	" In a thorny role, Theron is splendid; she instinctively reveals everything Mavis doesn't know about herself and offers an intimate peek into a wayward soul." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2011
80%	Shame (2011)	" In a movie era remarkable for its reluctance to dramatize erotic intimacy, Shame merits praise for the dark energy of its sexual encounters." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2011
94%	Hugo (2011)	" Bursting with earned emotion, Hugo is a mechanism that comes to life at the turn of a key in the shape of a heart." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 22, 2011
77%	A Dangerous Method (2011)	" Knightley makes a lovely lover for Carl. If Sabina is a vampire, then she's Edward Cullen, the creature who knows too much, to his Bella Swan, naive but game for a toxic twilight romp." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 22, 2011
44%	Happy Feet Two (2011)	" 97 minutes of nonstop joy." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 17, 2011
36%	Immortals (2011)	" The pity is that Tarsem's intelligence doesn't connect his cinematic eye to his narrative mind. The director's visual gift is like a brilliant retina, detached." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2011
78%	Melancholia (2011)	" For stretches of the film, von Trieria is as welcome as Siberia. You must stay to the end for a potent payoff, when the tragic magic of the opening scenes is reasserted." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2011
89%	Into The Abyss (2011)	" It provides intimate glimpses of people usually seen, and then only briefly, as faces on a post-office wall or numbers in a cemetery." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2011
44%	J. Edgar (2011)	" The film manages to be both sensational and stodgy, like a guided tour that goes on until it drones." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2011
69%	A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)	" A fourth Harold & Kumar? Who knows. But the third one finally wears down the disapproval of reluctant viewers with its cheerful demeanor and a late heart transplant." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2011
37%	In Time (2011)	" It's a great idea that Niccol can't translate into a great movie." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 27, 2011
50%	The Rum Diary (2011)	" An agreeable time-waster for the onlookers and its star." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 27, 2011
67%	Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)	" The filmmakers throw in a few cheesy scares: mom in a monster mask, a baby sitter jumping in front of a camera. But the rest is pretty freaking cool." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 20, 2011
77%	Damsels in Distress (2012)	" Innocence deserted teen movies ages ago, but it makes a comeback, revived and romanticized, in this joyous anachronism." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2011
91%	The Fly (1986)	" A gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2011
70%	Footloose (2011)	" Maybe there is something timeless in anachronism. Maybe Brewer has located the heart beneath the hoke." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2011
79%	The Skin I Live In (2011)	" The Skin I Live In is only middling Pedro -- which is to say, better than 78% of other people's films. But it has gleaming surfaces hiding the darkest habits." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2011
89%	George Harrison: Living In The Material World ()	" A fitting, sonorous tribute to the pop idol, movie producer, spiritual searcher and constant gardener." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2011
90%	Postcards from the Edge (1990)	" In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2011
93%	50/50 (2011)	" To the extent that 50/50 works, it because of Gordon-Levitt, one of my favorite actors." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2011
94%	Moneyball (2011)	" A solid, bustling social comedy at the 130-IQ level, Moneyball boasts the zinging, stinging repartee of grown men working at a kids' game and tired of being handed the prevailing line of bull." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2011
86%	Killer Joe ()	" McConaughey's fans might be shocked to see him in this role - more likely, they'd skip the opportunity - but they ought to give his performance a shot." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2011
73%	Rampart (2012)	" Harrelson rewards watching; he's no less potent at rest than when he explodes in calculated rage." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2011
90%	The Descendants (2011)	" I'm a notorious softie, and I found things to like about the film, most particularly Clooney's performance; but I remained untouched." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 14, 2011
——	Alps ()	" It simply demands to be stared at, in awe or incomprehension." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2011
——	Wilde Salome ()	" [A] fascinatingly wacky expression of a street actor's passion for a work that seems far from his interests or aptitude." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2011
84%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)	" At two hours, the film version is a third the miniseries' length, requiring severe compression by screenwriters Peter Straughan (The Debt) and Bridget O'Connor, which they've accomplished smartly." — TIME Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2011

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