Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president’s progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism. Richard Corliss Read Quote
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it’s a euphemism for sarcasm. ‘I’m not being sarcastic; I’m being ironic.’ No, you’re not. You’re evading the responsibility for being sarcastic. Richard Corliss Read Quote
In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I’ve worked with and learned from in my 34 years at ‘TIME,’ are linguistic conservatives – the keepers of the flame ignited by the Strunk-White ‘Elements of Style,’ published in full in 1957 and chosen by ‘TIME’ as one of the 100 most influential nonfiction books of the past century. Richard Corliss Read Quote
TIME’s spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me. Richard Corliss Read Quote
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber. Richard Corliss Read Quote
Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal. Richard Corliss Read Quote
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, ‘Boyhood’ shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie. Richard Corliss Read Quote
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people’s minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That’s life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as ‘Boyhood’ does. Richard Corliss Read Quote
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as ‘A Hard Day’s Night’? Richard Corliss Read Quote
Tammy,’ the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what’s funny. Richard Corliss Read Quote
