--- description: He wrote dozens of cover stories in his 35 years at the magazine title: TIME Film Critic Richard Corliss: See of His Best 15 Cover Stories image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcb3dd36724eb832/6987ec91a988ca1d4a6b055f/19850715.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [remembrance](/tag/remembrance/) ## remembrance Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 15 Great TIME Cover Stories by Richard Corliss by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2015 2:33 PM CUT  The July 15, 1985, cover of TIME The July 15, 1985, cover of TIMECover Credit: DAVID HUME KENNERLY by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2015 2:33 PM CUT In his 35 years at TIME, Richard Corliss—the influential film critic who died on Thursday at age 71—produced dozens of cover stories, from a look at the television show _Dallas_ to a tribute to the late Robin Williams. Along the way, he turned to vegetarianism, yoga and, most of all, the movies. Here are 15 of our favorite TIME covers for Richard Corliss stories. **_Read more about Richard Corliss’s life and work_** [**_here_**](http://time.com/richard-corliss "undefined")  The Aug. 11, 1980, cover of TIME Cover Credit: JULIAN ALLEN  The July 15, 1985, cover of TIME Cover Credit: DAVID HUME KENNERLY  The May 26, 1986, cover of TIME Cover Credit: THEO WESTENBERGER  The Aug. 24, 1987, cover of TIME Cover Credit: TED THAI  The June 26, 1989, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GREGORY HEISLER  The Dec. 25, 1989, cover of TIME Cover Credit: ERIC BOUVET / GAMMA LIAISON  The May 7, 1990, cover of TIME TIME  The Jan. 23, 1995, cover of TIME Cover Credit: KIMBERLY BUTLER  The May 19, 1997, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GREGORY HEISLER  The April 26, 1999, cover of TIME TIME  The April 23, 2001, cover of TIME Cover Credit: RUVEN AFANADOR  TIME  The May 12, 2003, cover of TIME TIME  The July 12, 2004, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GREGORY HEISLER  The Aug. 25, 2014, cover of TIME Photograph by Nigel Parry—CPI, Cover ©TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3833188/15-time-covers-corliss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3833188/15-time-covers-corliss/"},"headline":"15 Great TIME Cover Stories by Richard Corliss","datePublished":"2015-04-24T14:33:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:25.612Z","description":"He wrote dozens of cover stories in his 35 years at the magazine","url":"https://time.com/3833188/15-time-covers-corliss/","keywords":["remembrance","Media","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcb3dd36724eb832/6987ec91a988ca1d4a6b055f/19850715.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcb3dd36724eb832/6987ec91a988ca1d4a6b055f/19850715.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"July 15, 1985, cover of TIME","caption":"July 15, 1985, cover of TIME","creditText":"Cover Credit: DAVID HUME KENNERLY","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3833188/15-time-covers-corliss/","name":"15 Great TIME Cover Stories by Richard Corliss"}}]}] ```