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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    District 9
    District 9 proves that genre films, besides being a hell of a lot of fun, can say things you hadn't considered and show stuff you haven't seen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Flight
    A canny director and a top star decided to dig deep to find the core of a compromised hero. And when they reach that center of gravity, Flight soars.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    Silver Linings Playbook
    The performances of these actors are reason enough to go. The reason to stay is Lawrence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is more than an Important Documentary: it is engaging and, finally, enraging - as captivating as any "Superman" movie, and as poignant as a child's plea for help.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Corliss
    The Wrestler
    Rourke does strong, sensitive work here, which will cheer his old-time admirers and win him new fans...But the movie itself is pretty bad.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    JCVD
    Van Damme has been known as a martial-arts legend, movie star and pain in the ass. But never an actor -- until now.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Color of Paradise
    This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart.
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Richard Corliss
    Casino Royale
    This is a Bond with great body but no soul.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    Saraband
    Saraband makes for a powerful and poignant final roar from the grand old man of cinema--the movies' lion king.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    In the Company of Men
    Cool, shiny, handsomely made and, in its compelling-repelling way, mordantly funny.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    True Grit
    The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit. If not, you may as well slip out of the theater and into "Little Fockers."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    This is a chase movie (Simon Legree after three Little Evas) across parched outback terrain, captured with rapturous authenticity by cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
    • 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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    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    This may seem too inside-cricket for a U.S. audience. And it's true that Cock and Bull is so postpostmodern, it's very nearly postmovie. But it's no less diverting for all that. It would be a shame if the great novel no one has read becomes the terrific film nobody bothers to see.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    Coraline
    This is the animated film as art film. Coraline doesn't try to ingratiate; it just looms, like a cemetery gate, daring curious souls to tiptoe in and fend for themselves.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    Frost/Nixon
    For closeup conflict and emotional kick, the Frost/Nixon movie tops the play. But neither can match the tension and weird poignancy of the original interviews -- reality TV of the highest, queasiest order.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    Clueless
    It's like a restaurant where you go for the food and go back for the atmosphere. Or for the waitress. [13 July 1995]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Monsters, Inc.
    "Shrek," this film's prime competition for the first Animated Feature Oscar, is a synoptic parody of fairy tales. In Monsters, Inc. the gags aren't as spot-on but the technique is miles ahead. The vision is grander and warmer.
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    City of God
    The film is seductive, disturbing, enthralling -- a trip to hell that gives the passengers a great ride.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Richard Corliss
    Gung Ho
    Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Gone Girl
    In a movie of subtle tones and wild swerves, Pike expertly mixes a cocktail of hot and cold blood. She is the Amazing Amy you could fall for, till death do you part.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Kinsey
    The movie wants to entertain and educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Richard Corliss
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Watson makes a smooth matriculation from the England-made Harry Potter epics to this movie's thrifty, six-week Pittsburgh shoot.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Richard Corliss
    Flags of Our Fathers
    Clint Eastwood has crafted a bold and meticulous epic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Richard Corliss
    Jodorowsky's Dune
    The message to take from Jodorowsky’s Dune: movies once had brains and balls, and lost them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    The Five Obstructions
    The next time you hear a director complain about the studio or his stars or the weather or whatever, think of what Jorgen Leth achieved with Lars von Trier as his boss -- when five obstructions became five splendid opportunities.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Richard Corliss
    Wings of Desire
    Wings of Desire works hard to be both an essay and a love story, a mural and an intimate portrait. To savor this film, the viewer must work hard too. But when the artists behind the screen and the angels in the audience meet, it's like a smoke and coffee: fantastic! (1998 May 9, p. 79)
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Richard Corliss
    Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Though this Nick and Norah have a lot more angst, they're just as worth watching, admiring and cuddling up to.
    • 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.
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