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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    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Joyful Noise
    Though one wishes Graff's eye were as developed as his keen ear, he elicits rafter-raising musical performances from Latifah, Palmer, and Jordan that are irresistible fun.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Jon Favreau, the actor-director who made the delightful family film "Elf," has a firm grip and a light touch with this material about bickering brothers who find a board game that zaps the family home into hyperspace.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Darjeeling Limited
    A movie about people who literally carry a lot of emotional baggage, metaphorically unpack it, and spiritually lighten their loads. By the end, I felt lighter. Which is closer to enlightenment than most movies get.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Barney's Version
    That rumpled grumpus Paul Giamatti seizes the title role in Barney's Version, summoning irresistibility and irritability to create a character as endearing as he is galling.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Carrie Rickey
    Fight Club
    A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    This Is It
    Michael Jackson's This Is It looks beyond the reconstructed face and spindly body of the late King of Pop and basks in his meteoric light.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    North Face
    This white-knuckle adventure is a literal and metaphoric cliff-hanger that gets a spectacular foothold on an unforgiving mountain.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    World Trade Center
    The script by Andrea Berloff is stunning in its simplicity and aching details.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Zelary
    The story is as basic as a peasant meal - and just as hearty.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Son of Rambow
    As is the case with many English comedies, some of the film's slang is hard to understand. But Jennings' sprightly films proves that although England and America are countries divided by the same language, they are united by slapstick comedy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    In Good Company
    While Weitz's story is diverting, the performances cut deeper than the film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Last Dance
    It's a rare window on an artistic collaboration.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    Julie & Julia
    Even if you don't give a shiitake mushroom about food, there's much to savor in this lively comedy with dramatic aftertastes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Captain America: The First Avenger
    From its antagonists to its art direction, everything about Johnston's movie has a been-there, seen-that familiarity. Yet Evans' clean-cut idealism and objectives make old-fashioned patriotism look fresh.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Stuart Little 2
    The moral of this softhearted tale is that family values can rehabilitate and tenderize even the toughest of birds. But you'll forgive me if I liked it less when Stuart smoothed Margalo's feathers than when Snowbell's fundamental cattiness made the fur fly.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    While most of the talking heads, including the funny and articulate Barbara Ehrenreich (herself a breast cancer survivor), are not likely to join runs and walks for the cure, Pool shows how such events create community and sisterhood.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Snow Day
    A light-as-powder family comedy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Tuck Everlasting
    Smart, curious and brave.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Frisky, raunchy and frequently riotous.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    The Informant!
    Bakula is the ideal surrogate for a perplexed audience. Similarly, Whitacre's exasperated wife, played by Melanie Lynskey, is drily funny.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Diggers
    This seriously funny group portrait of third-generation clam diggers (and their wives and sisters) is fresh as today's catch and about as tasty. Its '70s soundtrack positively swaggers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    Bend It Like Beckham
    Pure, undiluted joy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Restoration
    Restoration moves from farce to spiritual parable to melodrama with such inconsistency that it could be a case study in 17th-century multiple personality disorder. [02 Feb 1996, p.05]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Elegy
    If Coixet's film is substantially more restrained than its explicit source material (Nicholas Meyer, himself a fine novelist and director of the second and best Star Trek film, adapted), it is no less provocative as a poetic meditation on love, sex and death.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Margarita Happy Hour
    Stunning, beautifully observed character study.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Trembling Before G-d
    An unexpectedly moving family portrait of cousins we didn't know we had.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Anything But Love
    An appealing, low-budget musical.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Strange Days
    Funny things, images. While to depict something visually is not necessarily to endorse it, when Bigelow shows rape as she does in Strange Days, she does so from the rapist's point of view. It's kind of like making a movie about the dangers of the atom bomb that glamorizes the aesthetic beauty of the mushroom cloud. [13 Oct 1995, p.05]
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