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Richard Corliss

Richard Corliss

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
Time Canada , TIME Magazine
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
633

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
87% 28 Days Later (2003) " The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox." — TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
81% Prisoners (2013) " Prisoners has got more pedigree than a Westminster dog-show winner. It's just not very good. In fact, it's worse than not-very-good; it's could've-been-really-good-and-isn't." — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2013
94% Only Lovers Left Alive () " Less a drama than a miniature double portrait, Jarmusch's film creates two people whose joy, not pain, is to be together forever. C'est l'amour." — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2013
55% Child Of God () " So, did all that industry pay off? With Child of God (pictured), from Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel, the answer has to be: Eh. " — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2013
97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " In the epic form of 12 Years a Slave, his most approachable, emotional film, McQueen escalates the tension. " — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2013
76% Joe () " Rough-hewn and sometimes too garrulous, Joe may not be quite the equal of Green's earlier films. But it's nicely judged and, like Joe's bad dreams, can't be ignored. " — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2013
89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " If the camera occasionally suffers a fashionable case of the jitters, the movie transcends its agitated verismo to impart dramatic and behavioral truth." — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2013
64% August: Osage County (2013) " Among Wells' actors, six have earned Oscars or Oscar nominations, and most of the others deserved to somewhere along the line. As a company, they're swell here." — TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2013
97% Gravity (2013) " If the film past is dead, Gravity shows us the glory of cinema's future. It thrills on so many levels. And because Cuar‪ón is a movie visionary of the highest order, you truly can't beat the view." — TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 28, 2013
68% Elysium (2013) " A grim and predictable adventure saga that is not nimble but leaden. Dystopia has rarely been so dysto-pointing." — TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2013
95% In the Line of Fire (1993) " Clint Eastwood has always been an old man. Even in the '60s, as the gunslinger in Sergio Leone westerns, Eastwood had the squinty eyes, sour mouth and weary walk of a soldier who had been in too many wars." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Allen observes Jasmine's allure and disease without penetrating her soul. That makes for a movie that is both intimate and disinterested, as if Jasmine were a flailing insect in a barren terrarium." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2013
69% The Wolverine (2013) " Hugh Jackman doesn't sing in The Wolverine." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2013
14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " A half-hour into the film, and it feels like the eighth day of jury duty." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 19, 2013
72% Pacific Rim (2013) " You get 45 minutes of awesome encased in 90 minutes of yawnsome." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2013
31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " It's got too much on its mind, and it's unsure of its tone. This is the rough cut of a slimmer, better movie." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2013
97% The Princess Bride (1987) " As you watch this enchanting fantasy, feel free to be thrilled or to giggle, as you wish." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " The tone of the movie is not so much vivacious as lurching and frantic, as if a senior had overdosed on Viagra." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2013
89% Trainspotting (1996) " The film is about joy -- in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style. And that's why, compared with it, most other films look zombified." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2013
20% First Family (1980) " What is the sound of one man not laughing?" — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2013
74% Ghost (1990) " A bad movie that a lot of people will like." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " Here's the oddest element in this tale of Hollywood fine-tuning run rampant: the movie is pretty good -- the summer's most urgent, highest-I.Q. action picture." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2013
78% Monsters University (2013) " This minor film with major charms still deserves to have kids dragging their parents to the multiplex for one more peek at the monsters in the closet. With Pixar, familiarity breeds content." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2013
17% Showgirls (1995) " Showgirls... is one of those delirious, hilarious botches that could be taught in film schools as a How Not To." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " The action is plentiful and thumping; Marvel-size thrills await you and the generations of kids who still believe in Superman." — TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2013
50% Now You See Me (2013) " Director Louis Leterrier has the energy but not the visual grace to match the elegant malefactions of his characters." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 30, 2013
11% After Earth (2013) " After Earth may lack the neck-swiveling awfulness of Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, but it quickly sinks in its logorrheic solemnity." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 30, 2013
81% Nebraska (2013) " There's little heart in Payne's heartland." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 24, 2013
40% Only God Forgives (2013) " The collision of violent spasms and art-film ennui leave the viewer's brain bloody but unfilled." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
95% Behind the Candelabra (2013) " The rampantly heterosexual Douglas might seem a stretch as Liberace, but from that first moment on the Vegas stage he nails the character, which quickly transcends mimicry for sympathetic evocation." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
92% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) " The brothers have created a character who's hard to love and a bit of a chore to invest in for an hour and 45 minutes. Like the old songs in his repertoire, he's familiar, not new, but he quickly gets old and tiresome." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
94% The Past (2013) " The machinations fester and ravel in a plot-driven film that, for all its references to detergents, never lapses into soap opera." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
5% Cocktail (1988) " Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 21, 2013
69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " Furious 6 is even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its predecessor, if such a thing is even theoretically possible." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 21, 2013
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
49% 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
67% The Iceman (2013) " Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good." — TIME Magazine
Posted May 2, 2013
79% 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
49% 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
93% Jurassic Park (1993) " 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
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