Veteran Film Critic Richard Corliss Dead at 71

Corliss spent 35 years at Time.

Richard Corliss, the legendary film critic, died on Thursday. He was 71. Corliss spent more than five decades reviewing films; 35 of those years with Time magazine.

“It is with great sorrow that I tell you that Richard Corliss died last night, following a stroke,” wrote Time editor Nancy Gibbs, in a memo to staffers. “It’s painful to try to find words, since Richard was such a master of them. They were his tools, his toys, to the point that it felt sometimes as though he had to write, like the rest of us breathe and eat and sleep.

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