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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Sabrina
    Ford plays Linus as a consummate actor so good at feigning emotions that he fools even himself. It is a nuanced performance, astonishing in an otherwise innocuous film. Though Ormond's Sabrina doesn't exactly generate the heat to melt Ford's glacial CEO, his transformation from polar ice cap to volcano is heartstopping. Who'da thunk we were watching Cinderfella? [15 Dec 1995, p.03]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Shame
    McQueen finds the exquisite tension between the brother wanting to disconnect and the sister longing for connection. To paraphrase a line of Sissy's, it's a good movie that comes from a bad place.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Ballast
    What this unclassifiable story may lack in decibels, it has in emotional depth. At once a mystery, a family drama, a snapshot of children at risk, Ballast is an unusually perceptive character study more eloquent in action than in dialogue.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Nowhere Boy
    Taylor-Wood stresses the universals rather than the specifics of John's youth. So don't go expecting a Fab Four origin story. The word Beatles is never uttered. But do go.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Goblet of Fire, fourth in the fantasy franchise, is the most fun and the most fraught with conflict.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Invincible
    Core, a cinematographer who helms both camera and directorial duties here, creates a vivid sense of time and place without letting the period music, clothes or art direction intrude. The performances are likewise understated and unpretentious, especially those of Wahlberg and Kinnear.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    I Don't Know How She Does It
    In describing the conflict of a woman who has it all without enjoying it all, Pearson's book had teeth. McKenna's screenplay has only a smile. But is it ever good to laugh.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Rabbit Hole
    Wrenching, poignant, and quietly healing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Tropic Thunder
    Raunchy, raucous and riotously funny.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Creation
    Jon Amiel's moody, and strangely moving, vignette of the naturalist is something else entirely. It is more about Darwin, father and husband, than Darwin the scientist.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Aviator
    Scorsese's most accomplished, most disciplined movie since GoodFellas. His most gorgeous, too, with the peaches'n'strawberries'n'cream palette of early Technicolor films.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Worthy of mention is Carolina Herrera's design for Bella's wedding dress, sophisticated and demure in the front and Pippa Middleton sexy, and proper, in the back.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    ABCD
    Involving study of sibling and interpersonal relationships.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Made in Dagenham
    To the extent that this mostly sunny excursion succeeds, it's due to the irrepressible Hawkins.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Margot at the Wedding
    Some call Margot a comedy. For me, it is a tragedy impaled by comic moments.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Gran Torino
    For those who gripe that America doesn't make cars or movies like it used to, Clint Eastwood has two words for you: Gran Torino.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Sex and Lucia
    Whatever you say about Sex and Lucía, you have to admit that it takes place at a hormonal high tide that never ebbs.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    13 Going on 30
    While 13 Going on 30 is too formulaic to sustain the delicacy of emotion that gave "Big" its appeal, it has tour-de-farce moments that made screenwriters Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa's "What Women Want" such a monster hit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Visitor
    At first glance Walter isn't a guy you want to spend two hours with. But by the end of the film, you don't want to see him go. Jenkins is like that: He sneaks up on you and steals your heart with light-fingered skill.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Hugely entertaining catalog of MPAA follies.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Dead Girl
    A challenging film populated with characters who are depressed, on antidepressants, or strung out on mood-altering drugs, The Dead Girl is a downer with resonance.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Drive Me Crazy
    Buoyed by the appealing Hart and Grenier.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Maid
    Silva expertly maintains the tension, asking the audience to interpret Raquel's bizarro behavior. His diagnosis is a pleasant surprise.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Monster's Ball
    Hate, love, bigotry, empathy and chance are the uninvited guests at Monster's Ball.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Charlotte's Web
    A perfectly lovely, if uninspired, movie that suffers from following on the trotters of "Babe," the one about the piglet advocate of barnyard brotherhood.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Switch
    By turns rowdy and rueful, The Switch is a comedy with serious ramifications, not least of which is the question, what makes a family?
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Stone
    I was with the movie until its head-scratcher of an ending, too oblique for its own good.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Matrix Reloaded
    All of the elements that made The Matrix a mass-cult phenom -- breathtaking physical gymnastics wedded to the brain-cramping mental and spiritual kind -- resurface in Reloaded.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Nanny McPhee Returns
    At its best, Nanny McPhee Returns has the playful surrealism of "Babe," if "Babe" had been directed by Terry Gilliam.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Calendar Girls
    The story hooks us because stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters look as fetching in woolens and Wellingtons as they do in the altogether. But it reels us in because it is about people who for so long have paid lip service to making a difference that they are profoundly altered when they actually do.
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