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Richard Corliss

American editor and film critic for Time magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and editor for Time.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Richard Corliss” as american editor and film critic for Time magazine. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Richard, Corliss and American.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 12-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Richard, Corliss and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Richard Corliss”, the useful work is to connect “american editor and film critic for Time magazine” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Corliss” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.