Carrie Rickey

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Philadelphia Inquirer
For 1,303 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Carrie Rickey's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Everlasting Moments
Lowest review score: 0 My Favorite Martian
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 981 out of 1303
  2. Mixed: 239 out of 1303
  3. Negative: 83 out of 1303
1303 movie reviews
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Backwards
    Backwards - its title referring to the wisdom that life is lived forward but understood backward - has no forward propulsion.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    For a Good Time, Call...
    The main distinction of this particular raunchfest, about the economic opportunities available to women in the phone-sex industry, is that it does not reconcile its slim narrative conflict with a big, fat wedding.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    Scafaria's movie never catches fire. The bad news: The end of the world comes with a whimper. Worse: And two wimps.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    What to Expect When You're Expecting
    So although this multicharacter stew has a tasty morsel or two, in the aggregate it makes one long for the comparative complexity and subtlety of "Valentine's Day."
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    W.E.
    Madonna the director deserves a script better than the one Madonna the screenwriter handed off to her. The movie is full of incidents that don't quite cohere into a story - kind of like a Power Point presentation without a throughline.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Greening of Whitney Brown
    By turns pleasant and preposterous, The Greening of Whitney Brown is a reverse Cinderella tale for tweens.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Anonymous
    An airless, bilious, endless pageant of pseudohistory.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    What's Your Number?
    In some scenes, Faris' sheer velocity gives the movie liftoff. In others, it doesn't hurt that Evans, who looks like the very young Alec Baldwin, and has the sonorous voice of Mark Feuerstein, is the film's sex object.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    One Day
    As in "An Education," Scherfig's settings are unshowy, imparting period flavor without overwhelming what is, ultimately, an underwhelming film.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Change-Up
    Like the kids in detention, The Change-Up wants to offend your sensibilities. It sets new records for scatological humor and profanity.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Horrible Bosses
    Short, sour and scabrous, Bosses is that paradoxical thing: a situation comedy where neither situation nor comedy is particularly effective where nonetheless Jason Bateman is sidesplitting, as is Colin Farrell in a supporting role.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Hangover Part II
    Did I laugh? A handful of times. Did I cringe? For 101 minutes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Cracks
    While Scott's movie has a consistent aura, it lacks a consistent tone. What are we to make of the movie, gauzy as a mist-shrouded lake and brutal as "Lord of the Flies?"
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Something Borrowed
    To paraphrase one of its few laughs, it's a zombie movie directed by Vera Wang.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    Speechy and preachy and just a teeny-weeny bit naughty.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Your Highness
    Half-baked, both in plot and execution, this spoof's for adolescent boys who find Minotaur private parts amusing and Queen Amidala in a chastity belt sexy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Paul
    A big fat geek kiss to the movies of Steven Spielberg and his fanboys, Paul is a mild, meandering comedy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Lord of the Dance in 3D
    Throughout Flatley, now 52, is triumphal and indefatigable. There are two mysteries here: From whence comes Flatley's boundless energy? And why does it make me feel so tapped out?
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Battle: Los Angeles
    That this is a cautionary tale about any people who would wage war in order to win the spoils of oil and water? Your guess is as good as mine.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Adjustment Bureau
    A movie where the action scenes feel like filler, the romantic leads have little magnetism, and, before long, its metaphysical underpinnings fall to pieces.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Hall Pass
    Most gaspworthy is that this raunchy, transgressive comedy about would-be adulterers turns out to be a hot, wet reaffirmation of marriage.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Little Fockers
    The million-dollar cast doesn't make the vulgar penny-ante jokes any funnier.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    TRON: Legacy
    Legacy is a two-hour light show with a lot of flash, a little style, and not one byte of narrative originality.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Cheaper by the Dozen
    Much as I adore Martin and Hunt, whose matching tongue-in-cheek delivery and finite patience make them seem more like siblings than spouses, their movie is indistinguishable from an Afterschool Special.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Bewitched
    One thing Kidman is not is a clown. She thinks fizzy and dizzy and klutzy are funny. She is mistaken. To be a clown requires a kind of witchcraft.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Passion of the Christ
    Too much Good Friday and not enough Easter Sunday. Emphasizing Jesus' agony over His ecstasy, Gibson has delivered a blood-drenched epic more stunning for its brutal violence than for its depiction of the calvary.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Last Airbender
    Unfortunately, this all proceeds at a supersonic tempo, with Shyamalan's directorial finger stuck on the fast-forward button. Significant plot points whiz by in this movie equivalent of speed-dating.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    There is no shape or pacing to Daniel Petrie's movie. It's like a bottle of soda left uncapped. So thus a story that promised effervescence ends up being flat.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Original Sin
    The lead performances are very strong -- few actors possess as much sheer physical presence as this pair -- but their dialogue is stilted, as though lost in transit from a Victorian hothouse.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    She's All That
    The script, which needs not just doctoring and could benefit from a spell in the critical-care ward, is full of dress-up and put-downs, and comes alive only when Prinze or Cook are on-screen. In short, She's All That aspires to be Clueless. It succeeds in being clueless.
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