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Richard Corliss

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% EDIT “Here is an epic with literature's depth and opera's splendor -- and one that could be achieved only in movies. What could be more terrific?” – TIME Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Stand By Me is a shuck. It trumpets its sensitivity while reveling in coarseness.” – TIME Magazine Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% EDIT “The film is an isolated boy’s fantasy of comradeship. It’s pretty funny too.” – TIME Magazine Dec 11, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “No masterpiece here, just a bloody good entertainment. It's criticproof!” – TIME Magazine Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents...All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another invitation to kids to flirt with the idea of being dead.” – TIME Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Ju Dou (1990) 100% EDIT “The story is primal, and so are Zhang’s cinema strategies. ” – TIME Magazine Sep 30, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “Like Harry at his eloquent best, To Sleep with Anger is a spellbinder.” – TIME Magazine Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Boogie Nights has panoramic ambitions... Nashville meets GoodFellas meets Pulp Friction. The film doesn’t quite get there, but it packs a wad of compelling entertainment on its road to triple-X oblivion.” – TIME Magazine Sep 23, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “For all its special-effects frissons, Steven Spielberg’s sequel lacks the shock of the new; it has the familiarity of a child’s second trip to Disneyland.” – TIME Magazine Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures.” – TIME Magazine Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “Starman has not an original thought in its head, but it should touch many a receptive heart.” – TIME Magazine May 13, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% EDIT “With a minimum of genre pandering and with the help of his gifted young ensemble, Hughes shows there is a life form after teenpix. It is called goodpix.” – TIME Magazine Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% EDIT “Of course, the pace of Kunuk's epic is less Vin Diesel fueled than dogsled deliberate. Which is only to say that Atanarjuat is not like every other film this summer. It's not like any other film, period.” – TIME Magazine Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Selena (1997) 67% EDIT “Even as hagiographies go, Selena misses the inspirational beat. ” – TIME Magazine Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% EDIT “This handsome, persuasively inhabited spook show reveals Lynch’s talent for fooling, unsettling and finally enthralling his audience. ” – TIME Magazine Jul 10, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “For every scene of raw artistry, there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful... It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema. ” – TIME Magazine May 25, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% EDIT “Susan Sandler's script takes this same Old World view of urban feminism. Isabelle would be emotionally independent, but the movie knows better: she needs a man.” – TIME Magazine May 15, 2023 Full Review Yentl (1983) 69% EDIT “[The musical score's] treacherous glissandi and searching wit find their ideal interpreter in Streisand's incredible Flexible Flyer of a voice. After two decades of hard work, that voice is still as smooth as mercury poured over dry ice.” – TIME Magazine May 12, 2023 Full Review 9 to 5 (1980) 70% EDIT “Nine to Five thinks it's a suspenseful comedy with a mind of its own; it isn't and hasn't.” – TIME Magazine Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Wild Things (1998) 65% EDIT “The Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp. ” – TIME Magazine Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 83% EDIT “The poise and passion in Eve's Bayou leave one grateful, exhausted and nourished. For the restless spirit, here is true soul food.” – TIME Magazine Jan 10, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% EDIT “It grabs you by the lapel and says, "Call me masterpiece!"... These weaknesses are The Deer Hunter's greatest strength -- because, in a year of timid moviemaking, they trumpet the film's daring to fail at being great.” – New Times (magazine) Sep 7, 2022 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% EDIT “We have to stop and remind ourselves here that Annie Hall is not only the strangulated murmur of a neurotic urban heart: it is also a movie. Of various and satisfying kinds. ” – New Times (magazine) Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Creepshow (1982) 66% EDIT “The treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. ” – TIME Magazine Aug 9, 2022 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% EDIT “A grand, sprawling entertainment... Mozart sings the music of God, Salieri schemes and screams in tragic register, and the film keeps humming merrily along with them both.” – TIME Magazine Jul 8, 2022 Full Review
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