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TIME sr. writer Richard Corliss amid stacks of videos, Chinese films viewed by him, homework for TIME Intl. article on film industries of China, Hong Kong & Taiwan.Mario Ruiz—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  by [Radhika Jones](https://time.com/author/radhika-jones/)  ## Radhika Jones Apr 24, 2015 2:32 PM UTC When you work with a film critic long enough, you learn a lot about what he loves. Luckily for us, [Richard Corliss](http://time.com/richard-corliss/)’s loves are well documented. Here’s a selection of some of our favorite offbeat, passionate pieces from the Corliss archive. Corliss loved animated films. Loved them:[ The 25 Best All-TIME Animated Films](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/23/the-25-all-time-best-animated-films/) He could always be counted on to mark an important film’s anniversary. Here he remembers _Blade Runner_ on its 30th birthday: [Celebrating Ridley Scott’s Dystopian Vision](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/25/30-years-later-celebrating-blade-runner/) And here he revisits _Titanic_ (the movie he famously panned as “dead in the water”) on its rerelease in 3D:[ _Titanic,_ TIME and Me](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/04/titanic-time-and-me/) There were two great loves of Richard’s life: the movies and Mary Corliss. Here he pays tribute to both in one go: [The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/01/11/mary-and-moma-the-case-of-the-still-missing-film-stills/) Richard also loved TIME. On its 90th birthday, he reviewed the first issue: [The First _TIME_](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/03/01/the-first-time/) He loved Roger Ebert, whom he knew for 40 years: [Farewell to a Film Legend and Friend](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-farewell-to-a-film-legend-and-friend/) He loved baseball: [These Are the Good Old Days](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,989084,00.html) He loved the Beatles, so much so that he let himself be persuaded to impersonate one of them, in this video where we test-drive Beatles Rock Band: [The New Fab Four](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,36936667001%5F1920576,00.html) He loved Bollywood, and especially A.R. Rahman: [The Mozart of Madras](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,994077-1,00.html) He loved theme parks. Here he visits the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter: [Inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2005855,00.html) He had a way with spoilers. In this review of _The Crying Game_, he reveals the movie’s big secret through an acrostic (at which he hints in the opening paragraph): [Queuing for _The Crying Game_](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,160843,00.html) To keep his _Sex and the City_ review spoiler-free, he resorted to hilarious anagrams: [Kinda Into You](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1810355,00.html) And he loved tradition. For more than a decade, [he and Mary were part of the “Times Square confetti dispersal battalion,” ](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/30/the-fabulous-confetti-fete-a-times-square-new-years-eve/)which is to say they spent their New Year’s Eves throwing bits of paper onto revelers below. 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