Example sentences for: corliss

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  • It relies heavily on Minnesota-bashing--the film has "more lutefisk and Lutheran gags than a year of A Prairie Home Companion " (Richard Corliss, Time )--and predictable jokes about stage mothers and bitchy teens.

  • 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."

  • But mostly critics admit to enjoying the "guilty pleasures, including banzai bikini footage" (Mike Clark, USA Today ) and "babelicious lesbians" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others wonder how the movie got away with an R rating and find it lacking even "the saving spark of low art or high camp" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Click here for the official site.)

  • "The studios sensibly scaled down" in the wake of the Christmastime smash hit, says Time 's Richard Corliss.

  • 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.)


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