John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promis…

- Richard Corliss

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challe…

- Richard Corliss

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other w…

- Richard Corliss

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

- Richard Corliss

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

- Richard Corliss

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

- Richard Corliss

The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscu…

- Richard Corliss

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

- Richard Corliss

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

- Richard Corliss