About Richard Corliss
Richard Nelson Corliss (March 6, 1944 – April 23, 2015) was an American film critic and editor for Time. He was the editor-in-chief of Film Comment and authored several books. In Talking Pictures, he challenged the auteur theory, popularized by his teacher Andrew Sarris. With his colleague Richard Schickel, he made Time's All-Time 100 Movies list. Corliss along with Martin Scorsese first came up with the idea for the issue on "guilty pleasures". Corliss alone created lists of the 25 greatest villains, the 25 best horror films, and the 25 most important films on race. In a 1993 Time magazine movie review of The Crying Game, Corliss subtly gave away the spoiler of the film, by spelling it out with the first letters of each paragraph of his review.
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