Richard Corliss

Select another critic »
Time
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 1.2 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
1008 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Poltergeist
    At first and final glance, Poltergeist is simply a riveting demonstration of the movies' power to scare the sophistication out of any viewer. It creates honest thrills within the confines of a P.G. rating and reaches for standard shock effects and the forced suspension of disbelief only at the climax, when we realize that the characters are behaving with such obtuseness precisely because they are trapped inside a horror movie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    All the Real Girls
    Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style -- long takes, static frame -- but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Not just a ripping yarn but a powerful, poignant coming-of-age story.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Frankenweenie
    Frankenweenie has that youthful verve and the ghoulishness of strange kids who will some day be eccentric creators. This movie is an attic experiment for its makers to be proud of and for audiences to cherish.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Simpsons Movie
    So, for those of you who were wondering if a great TV show could top itself at feature-film length, the good news is that The Simpsons did it! But "South Park" did it first.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Sacrifice
    In The Sacrifice, the cryptic Tarkovsky style helps create a towering cathedral.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    A Mighty Wind
    The sweetest and funniest of Guest's true-life fake-umentaries.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Kundun
    This is rapture in pictures. [22 December 1997, p. 81]
    • Time
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Kung Fu Panda
    The new picture provides a master coursed in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Eve's Bayou
    The poise and passion in Eve's Bayou leave one grateful, exhausted and nourished. For the restless spirit, here is true soul food.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Furious 7
    It’s an enormous, steroidal blast, and as much ingenious fun as a blockbuster can be.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Full Frontal
    The result is Soderberghs liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird "Schizopolis" six years ago -- except that this one works.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Postcards from the Edge
    The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. [17 Sept 1990, p.70]
    • Time
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    A Single Man
    Tom Ford -- the Texas-born fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci -- financed this first feature himself. The producer couldn't have hired a smarter director.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Noah
    Darren Aronofsky brings wild ambition and thrilling artistry to one of the Old Testament’s best-known, most dramatic, least plausible stories — Noah and the ark — with Russell Crowe infusing the role of God’s first seaman and zookeeper with all his surly majesty.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Submarine
    It's a cagey delight, and an imposing feature directorial debut for one of Britain's TV stalwarts.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Diner
    The film is wonderfully cast and played, right down to the bit player (Ralph Tabakin) who shops suspiciously for a TV set: "I saw Bananzo and it was not for me."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Jurassic Park
    For dinosaurs to rule the earth again, the monsters needed majesty as well as menace. And Spielberg got it all right. [14 June 1993, p.69]
    • Time
    • 60 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Red Dragon
    This darkly seductive, flawlessly acted piece is worlds removed from most horror films. Here monsters have their grandeur, heroes their gravity. And when they collide, a dance of death ensues between two souls doomed to understand each other.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Distant Voices, Still Lives
    Davies recalls all these sights and sounds -- so horrifying, so beautiful -- and, with his unflinching style, turns anecdote into artistry. The distant voices still live.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Closer
    Funny, hurtful, splendidly acted.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Piano
    Campion has spun a fable as potently romantic as a Bronte tale. But The Piano is also deeply cinematic. [22 Nov 1993]
    • Time
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Interrupters
    Matthews brings to The Interrupters what every terrific documentary needs: an out-of-nowhere personality with the same magnetic watchability as any Hollywood star.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Bowling for Columbine
    Rambunctious, disturbing, often hilarious new documentary.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Incredibles
    The Incredibles has those characters, that heart.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Cinderella
    Nearly a century after that black-and-white cartoon short, and 65 years after a “classic” animated feature that missed the mark, Disney finally got Cinderella right — for now and, happily, ever after.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Evita
    But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors’ and the camera’s movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Invisible War
    Repressing its rage to tell an important story, The Invisible War identifies soldiers who are true heroes because they dared to fight for justice.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Beauty and the Beast
    The voluptuousness of visual detail offers proof, if any more were needed after The Little Mermaid, that the Disney studio has relocated the pure magic of the Pinocchio-Dumbo years.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »