Example sentences for: corliss

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  • And by making Hercules a sports star and another character a Hollywood agent, the movie proves that "Walt's art form is still sassy and snazzy" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Disney serves up tie-ins galore on its site.)

  • Critics are especially pleased that, for a sex film, it "stints on sex" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Dissenting, New York 's David Denby wishes it had more insights into the porn industry: It "doesn't really satisfy our curiosity about this ...

  • Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie business: "Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and "in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy."

  • A few praise the film's understated pleasures: Richard Corliss of Time calls it "a small epic with subtle strengths."

  • Time 's Corliss writes that the film's nice, if "you look past the gaffes and clichés."


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