Time's movie critic for the past 35 years, Richard Corliss, died on Thursday night following a massive stroke that hit him a week before. Corliss was 71 at the time of his passing and has left behind a wife, Mary Corliss, and a brother, Phil Corliss.

In this week's cover article for Time, Richard Zoglin broke down his life with the magazine and his perception for which he was both feared and applauded.

As noted in the article, film critics can be sometimes intimidating. But for Richard Corliss, he simply loved watching movies. It was his passion, and he even stated in response to someone asking him if a particular movie was worth seeing, "Everything is worth seeing."

Although movies was his pet project at the magazine, his 2,500 reviews also delved into theater, television, theme parks, Las Vegas shows, yoga and even the polarizing propaganda figure Rush Limbaugh. His work was even featured on over two-dozen cover stories. He's been quoted a numerous amount of times and his presence over the past three and a half decades has been commanding to say the least.

"It's painful to try to find words, since Richard was such a master of them," Time editor Nancy Gibbs said in an internal note to staff. "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. It's not clear that Richard ever slept, for the sheer expanse of his knowledge and writing defies the normal contours of professional life."

Variety's chief film critic Justin Chang had a few things to say about Corliss in an article.

When speaking about how he and other film critics have a tendency to write about themselves just as much as they write about their movies, Chang said it was important to remember Corliss, "not just because the veteran Time critic hailed from that honorable, not-yet-bygone tradition of wordsmiths who composed sharp, beautifully considered reviews for the printed page, but also because he was a master and a model when it came to civilly, and thoughtfully, taking his colleagues to task."