Richard Corliss, Time Magazine Film Critic, Dead at 71

Longtime Time Magazine Film Critic Richard Corliss died at 71 Thursday after suffering a stroke last week.

Time.com published a powerful tribute piece for Corliss Friday, beginning: “To any fan or friend who would ask whether a new movie was “worth seeing,” TIME film critic Richard Corliss had a stock, succinct reply: “Everything is worth seeing.” He meant it.”

Corliss was Time’s movie critic for 35 years, possessing a sheer joy of watching movies and writing about them.

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“He savored it all: the good, the bad, the indifferent,” wrote Richard Zoglin. “Except that he was indifferent to nothing. To any fan or friend who would ask whether a new movie was “worth seeing,”

Corliss wrote 2,500 reviews for the magazine along with other topics including theater, television, television, theme parks, Las Vegas shows–even yoga and Rush Limbaugh.

He had an affinity for Chinese kung-fu movies and Disney animation, but was more demanding of works of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Zoglin wrote.

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Corliss quickly became a fan of the fantasy works of Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas.

“Not since the glory days of the Walt Disney Productions — 40 years ago, when Fantasia and Pinocchio and Dumbofirst worked their seductive magic on moviegoers of every age — has a film so acutely evoked the twin senses of everyday wonder and otherworldly awe,” he had wrote.

Corliss leaves behind his wife, Mary Corliss, and his brother Paul.

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