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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:: 596

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	68%	The Crucible (1996)	" Her cheeks flush, her winsome beauty seared with erotic rage, Ryder exposes the real roots of the piece. Forget McCarthyism; The Crucible is a colonial Fatal Attraction." — TIME Magazine Posted May 17, 2013
	59%	The Bling Ring (2013)	" Though the material is sensational, the film is on the blah side." — TIME Magazine Posted May 17, 2013
	80%	The Boxer (1997)	" The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche.. And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting his candy." — TIME Magazine Posted May 14, 2013
	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" [Provides] bustling fun equal to its modest ambitions ..." — TIME Magazine Posted May 14, 2013
	100%	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)	" Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat." — TIME Magazine Posted May 13, 2013
	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Maguire's otherworldly coolness suits the observer drawn into a story he might prefer only to watch. DiCaprio is persuasive as the little boy lost impersonating a tough guy, and Mulligan finds ways to express Daisy's magnetism and weakness." — TIME Magazine Posted May 9, 2013
	91%	Scandal (1989)	" Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll." — TIME Magazine Posted May 8, 2013
	46%	Agnes of God (2002)	" All three stars do smart, honorable work." — TIME Magazine Posted May 8, 2013
	65%	The Iceman (2013)	" Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good." — TIME Magazine Posted May 2, 2013
	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there's still intelligent life on Planet Marvel." — TIME Magazine Posted May 1, 2013
	47%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" It's like a giant sculpture that is so strange and off-putting, it's instantly, intriguingly post-modern. Swept up in the film's pile-driving self-assurance, even Bay-haters may absorb the pain to enjoy the gain." — TIME Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2013
	78%	Sin City (2005)	" For all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive." — TIME Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2013
	81%	Batman Returns (1992)	" Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars." — TIME Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2013
	92%	Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013)	" The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity." — TIME Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2013
	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Retaliation is less a sequel than an antidote to the calcified mound of crap that ostensibly inspired it." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2013
	30%	Flashdance (1983)	" Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2013
	93%	Matewan (1987)	" In the rich umbers of Haskell Wexler's cinematography, Matewan does look great." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 22, 2013
	69%	The Croods (2013)	" The family-dramedy genre that the film inhabits demands a bit more narrative ingenuity than is on display." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 22, 2013
	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" Absent any emotional grounding, the film is a gorgeous, sterile construction, like a dream city unoccupied by humans." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 15, 2013
	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" The 3-D effects are plentiful - hats, lions, and baboons jump off the screen and into your lap - but the characters rarely lodge in the moviegoer's heart." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 6, 2013
	67%	Stoker (2013)	" It's not pure Park or pure Hitchcock but a muted, mildly mesmerizing blend of the two. You might want to take a careful stroll in this Hitchpark." — TIME Magazine Posted Mar 1, 2013
	93%	The Departed (2006)	" [A] very entertaining, densely layered, just-short-of-fabulous melodrama." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 24, 2013
	87%	Chicago (2002)	" Chicago has so much razzle-dazzle that viewers may end up both raised and dazed. It's remorselessly inventive, trying anything fast and sassy to keep you watching." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 24, 2013
—	96%	Amadeus (1984)	" A grand movie entertainment." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2013
	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" A movie like A Good Day to Die Hard ought to either hire someone who can write catchy dialogue and at least superficially plausible characters or just let the real artists, the stuntmen, run the whole picture. No Humans Allowed." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 14, 2013
	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" Side Effects virtually demands a three-word review: Just see it." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2013
	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" The whole kidding trope, which you can bet was ordered by McKay and Ferrell, is pretty lame, and defeats the leads' attempts to bring shadings to cardboard cartoon characters." — TIME Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2013
	73%	V for Vendetta (2006)	" Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2013
	30%	Broken City (2013)	" When any film works, it's a miracle; when it doesn't, it's this." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 18, 2013
	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" Slapdash in its character portraits, the movie is slambang in its action scenes; it springs to life whenever it promises death." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 18, 2013
	94%	Coriolanus (2011)	" The film has fifth-act problems, as did the play, but Fiennes' bleak overview should leave receptive viewers feeling daunted and haunted." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2013
	85%	End of Watch (2012)	" The performances here are so sharp that viewers may wish End of Watch has been shot by someone who knew how to find the right point of view for a scene and leave it there." — TIME Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2013
	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" The movie slogs along like a Grant Wood farmer behind his plow." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 24, 2012
	45%	On the Road (2012)	" If there were an On the Road museum, this could be the elaborate diorama at its center." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 24, 2012
	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" Painful, and not in a good way." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 20, 2012
	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Even when the film is cool, it manages to be wrong." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2012
	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Django Unchained is pure, if not great, Tarantino." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2012
	69%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Tom Hooper's problem is soiling good projects with bad direction. Even if his Les Misérables wins as many Oscars as The King's Speech did, it's a habit he really needs to correct." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 11, 2012
	32%	Deadfall (2012)	" [It has] enough plot contrivances and twisted, twinned destinies for any old movie, though not necessarily a good one." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2012
	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" The movie lacks majesty. Grand in parts, the movie is too often grandiose or grandiloquent; and the running time is indefensible." — TIME Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2012
	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" This is movie journalism that snaps and stings, that purifies a decade's clamor and clutter into narrative clarity, with a salutary kick." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 26, 2012
	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Magical realism was rarely so magical and never before so real. " — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2012
	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" The cool accomplishment of Skyfall, 23rd in the Broccoli franchise, is that it seems a necessary, rather than mandatory, addition to the year's popular culture." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2012
	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Lincoln is brain food and, at another pivotal moment in American political history, an instructive feast." — TIME Magazine Posted Nov 8, 2012
	90%	Bad 25 (2012)	" It's baaad, and great." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2012
	37%	Nobody Walks (2012)	" The acting ensemble is crucial. Everyone's really fine." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2012
	25%	Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)	" There's a point at which movies become only merchandise, and the Paranormal franchise may be heading for that nexus, that nadir." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2012
	78%	Flight (2012)	" Washington's nuanced performance is a tightrope walk between the Denzel whom people expect and the character he's boldly burrowed into." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2012
	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" It's an old-fashioned John Huston caper film extended to sulfurous comedy - from Beat the Devil to Meet the Devil." — TIME Magazine Posted Oct 11, 2012

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