Richard Corliss

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For 1,008 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Richard Corliss' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Green Zone
Lowest review score: 0 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 603 out of 1008
  2. Mixed: 307 out of 1008
  3. Negative: 98 out of 1008
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Long Kiss Goodnight
    Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Spinning in that wedding dress, or glaring in wary repose, Lawrence catches fire on screen.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Merchant of Venice
    Pacino seems to recall, from his early Michael Corleone days, the power of whispered menace.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Sleepy Hollow
    Sleepy Hollow may be late for Halloween, but this trick is a real treat.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Past
    It has many of A Separation’s strengths — the acute observation of complex characters in a story that keeps unpacking surprises — but they have become familiar. They lack the revelatory wallop of the first film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Go
    Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready, set, Go.
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Human Stain
    Elegant, thoughtful film.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Beowulf
    It's got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a tortured outcast, and a naked monster who looks a lot like Angelina Jolie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Swingers
    Despite some rough edges and language, this is at heart a beguiling fantasy of comradeship.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Unbroken
    If the Unbroken needle stops at Impressive and doesn’t quite rise to Enthralling, it’s because Jolie stints on exploring the doubts that tortured Louis nearly as much as Watanabe’s punishments did, and whose details so enriched Hillenbrand’s biography.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Divine Intervention
    Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention is a cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Total Recall
    Fast, witty, glamorous, with thrill piling on giggle atop gasp. [11 June 1990, p.85]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Frozen
    The impact of this sisterhood fable on viewers should be as warm and rapturous as Olaf the snowman’s dream of summer. Child, teen or septuagenarian, you’ll warm to Frozen.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    The film doesn't scale Shakespearean heights, but it does give its star a nicely gnarled ogre to play.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Company Men
    John Wells's The Company Men is a juicy, judicious drama, and one of the few current movies to address an issue that affects many of the people who will see it - or, because reality is too depressing, avoid it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    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. The dimpled demon lover proves he can be just as seductive playing Texas's creepiest, craziest cop.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Empire of the Sun
    Spielberg has energized each frame with allusive legerdemain and an intelligent density of images and emotions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The Illusionist
    By the end, the canniest viewers may not be fooled, but--and you can believe this--they may be mesmerized.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Happy Feet Two
    Everything that happens in Happy Feet Two is good-to-great.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Bad 25
    Bad 25 is an intimate view of a performer at his peak in the intense splendor of creativity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Brave
    Visually the most ravishing and complex Pixar movie, Brave evokes memories of Walt Disney's early experiments with the multiplane camera, but with the more persuasive intricacies available to CGI artists.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    The New World
    This is no breathless film fantasy; its pulse is stately, contemplative. But anyone who has keen eyes and an open heart will surely go soaring and crashing with the lovers lost in Malick's exotic, erotic new world.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    A Christmas Carol
    A ghost story, a bustling action-adventure and an example of the comedy tour-de-farce, in which the star validates his virtuosity by appearing in a plethora of funny disguises.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Tangled
    This is your basic, and very enjoyable, Disney princess musical, an empowerment tale to teach bright, dreamy girls how to grow to maturity - and outgrow the adults in charge.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Stand by Me
    Stand By Me is a shuck. It trumpets its sensitivity while reveling in coarseness. And at its climax it suggests that manhood can be found through the barrel of a gun. Maybe this is how Rambo discovered puberty. Maybe real kids should be discouraged from following his example.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Lincoln
    This high-IQ sermon is long but never lazy. Renouncing his tendency to make every movie take emotional flight, Spielberg sticks to the story as Kushner has artfully compressed it. Lincoln is brain food and, at another pivotal moment in American political history, an instructive feast.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Interstellar
    With Interstellar, Nolan’s reach occasionally exceeds his grasp. That’s fine: These days, few other filmmakers dare reach so high to stretch our minds so wide.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Monster's Ball
    The cast is uniformly superb, and Marc Forster's attentive direction gives proper weight to each perplexing emotion. Strip away the strident melodrama, and you have this season's moodiest, most adult love story.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Sweet and Lowdown
    Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Peggy Sue Got Married
    Everything finally came together under the sensitive directorial hand of, yes, Francis Coppola. The supporting cast is splendid. The film's occasional lapses never puncture the airy tone; they are easily forgiven, like Peggy Sue and her friends, whose only sin was to grow up. This prom-night balloon of a movie floats easily above the year's other exercises in '50s nostalgia. If you dare reach for it, it will land smartly in your heart.
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