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 1.2 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
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Iron Man
    Some of us knows that there's an American style -- best displayed in the big, smart, kid-friendly epic -- that few other cinemas even aspire to, and none can touch. When it works, as it does here, it rekindles even a cynic's movie love. So cheers to Downey, Favreau and the Iron Man production company. They don't call it Marvel for nothing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Space Cowboys
    It blends tension and emotion, computer wizardry and dramatic skill in a vigorous climax--and the most impressive, haunting final shot of the movie year.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Insider
    The viewer almost has to be a journalist--or a good editor--to sniff out the meat under all the fat.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Henry V
    Big and pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this Hamlet expands the story with helpful flashbacks.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    This is an original work in an antique mood. The actors and authors all have fun with the genre without making fun of it. Rather, they revive it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    All About My Mother
    The most mature and satisfying work in a glittering, consistently surprising career.
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Aladdin
    t's a movie for adults -- if they can keep up with its careering pace -- and, yes, you can take the kids. It juggles a '90s impudence with the old Disney swank and heart.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous.
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Animal Kingdom
    A contemplative crime drama with a high startlement quotient.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    The whole rollicking adventure zips along a mile a minute.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Suzhou River
    Whatever city this one is showing in...move there.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Minority Report
    Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the finest of the season's action epics.
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    This being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Pillow Book
    Wu is a fine, supple tabula rasa; McGregor (Trainspotting) shows again that he is one of the boldest, most charming young actors.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Host
    If this madly entertaining movie has a fault, it's that it's too ingenious for the genre it ostensibly inhabits.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Smaug is different: a really good movie, superior to the first in that it brings its characters to rambunctious life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Thin Red Line
    The film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Truman Show
    Hollywood's smartest media satire in years--and a breakthrough for Jim Carrey.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Charlie Wilson's War
    A picture about war and politics that has manages to be both rational and inspirational. It is also the year's funniest smart movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Trainspotting
    The film is about joy--in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    V for Vendetta
    It's a terrific movie. I love the look and the verve of the thing, the confidence of its epic design, its smart use of half a dozen noted British thesps, lending weight and wit to the supporting roles.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Finding Nemo
    Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Age of Innocence
    A gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss. [20 Sept 1993, p.82]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Road Warrior
    Miller suggests violence; he does not exploit it. He throws the viewer off-balance by mixing the ricochet rhythms of his chase scenes with tableaux of Walpurgisnacht grandeur.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Kaufman may be counting on the audience's will, insistence and yearning to create a coherent love story from the shards and shrapnel he provides us.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The American President
    As bustling and impassioned as the best Sturges and Capra movies, this one captures both the purposeful edginess of Administration Pooh-Bahs (Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer and Samantha Mathis--nice jobs, all) and the isolation of the President. [20 Nov 1995, p.117]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    42: Forty Two Up
    Apted...has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    In the Mood for Love
    This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Lucy
    The summer’s best, coolest, juiciest, smartest action movie.
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