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
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Ignorant Fairies
    Startlingly original comedy-drama.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    A Walk to Remember
    It's wholesome as a glass of milk, and as refreshing.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    I Can Do Bad All by Myself
    A double shot of Saturday-night lowdown chased by a cheery chug of Sunday-morning uplift.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Stick It
    Subversively funny, Stick It sees gymnastics as a microcosm of teen life.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    King of California
    The treasure of the film is the unearthing of the family bond, magically played by Douglas and Wood.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Super 8
    The unforced performances of Courtney and Fanning are remarkable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Oliver Twist
    The movie about literature's luckiest orphan may teem with children, but it is not for them.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The trippy creation of onetime marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg, SpongeBob is a cockeyed optimist toiling at the bottom of the fast-food chain.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    I Will Follow
    DuVernay has confidence in her actors that is reciprocated in kind. Richardson-Whitfield gives a remarkably empathetic performance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    A Time for Drunken Horses
    A disturbing and forceful drama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Fraser and Elfman are goofily endearing even if they seem more sincere acting opposite the rabbit and the duck than they do each other.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Ladykillers
    So what if the movie isn't finger-lickin' good like the original? The performances by Hanks as a crook and Irma P. Hall as his honorable landlady are mighty tasty.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Boesman and Lena
    Fugard’s classic minimalist drama comes eloquently to film.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Pollock
    It is a difficult and demanding movie, one that rewards the persevering moviegoer just as Pollock's difficult and demanding paintings ultimately reward the steadfast.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Last Train Home
    Fan's fly-on-the-wall perspective enables the viewer to empathize with all the players in the family drama, unlikely to have a happy ending.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Troy
    When the film focuses on the Trojans, it's splendid. But when Troy attempts to sort out the competing agendas of the Greeks, it drags.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    Vintage Terry Gilliam, a pour not to all tastes but one certain to please lovers of "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    Sisterhood is Stand by Me for girls, as sullen, plucky, melodramatic, exuberant, athletic, graceless, crafty, artistic, arrogant, modest, helpless and resourceful as its teenage heroines.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Girl, Interrupted
    The performances in Girl, Interrupted resonate, but the movie does not.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    16 Blocks
    Richard Wenk's script, taut and enjoyable, pays homage to those police procedurals, with a nod to the Brazilian hostages-on-mass-transit documentary, "Bus 174."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Insomnia
    With Insomnia, his third feature, Nolan, 32, has proven himself a precocious master of the thriller, unsettling the audience with a brief image of blood seeping through fabric.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Solaris
    For those who have seen Tarkovsky's moody original, let me say that Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film. What's left is a rich stew of longing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Human Stain
    The sequences with the melancholy Faunia are monochromatic and those with Lester perfunctory. Benton too neatly -- and too hastily -- wraps up a story that would surely exert more power if it were messy and unrushed.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Brady Bunch Movie
    However improbable this sounds, The Brady Bunch Movie is to the original television show what real grass is to Astroturf. [17 Feb 1995, p.03]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Lincoln Lawyer
    Shamelessly entertaining.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Drive
    Plays like an exalted episode of "Miami Vice" or a stealth version of "Shane."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    In Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, Kempner gives us a balance of artist and alter ego, introducing us to a woman we'd like to know even better.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Alice in Wonderland
    If there were truth-in-titling, Burton's movie rightly would be called "Alice in Narnia: With Stops at Disneyland, the Shire, Rohan, Naboo, and Oz."
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Bounce
    Roos introduces the possibility that perhaps two partials add up to the whole truth, and in so doing creates a provocative love story that sticks with you long after the credits roll.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Chungking Express
    A lyrical and delightfully goofy study in romantic longing.
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