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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Oliver Twist
    The movie about literature's luckiest orphan may teem with children, but it is not for them.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Garfield
    However terrific Murray is, if Antonio Banderas, mellifluous voice of Puss-in-Boots in "Shrek 2," went paw to claw with Garfield, Puss would definitely triumph.
    • 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Planet of the Apes
    Offers a primal vision of the primate order turned topsy-turvy. It is provocative. It is frightening. It is a mess.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    A Time for Drunken Horses
    A disturbing and forceful drama.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Gerry
    If it were a landscape painting, Gerry would deserve a place in the National Gallery. But as a movie...deserves its own wing in The Old Curiosity Shop.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    The Trip
    Riddled with romantic and political cliches but is often redeemed by the charismatic performances of Braun and Sullivan.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Chicago 10
    Given the filmmaker's privileged perspective of hindsight, to not consider the real-world repercussions of their theater, to not connect the dots between 1968 and 2008 is a squandered opportunity.
    • 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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    The Merchant of Venice
    Collins and Pacino plumb the depths of acting, of Shakespeare, of the difference between law and justice.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    A Christmas Carol
    Visually immersive but emotionally uninvolving.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Life as We Know It
    With pratfalls and teardrops, the film swings from sitcom to sit-dram.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Proves that the most local story is sometimes the most universal, the simplest tale sometimes the most complex.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    World Traveler
    Iridescent as each of the actors is, the result is like a handful of beads without the connecting string.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It's not fresh and irreverent, qualities we admire in Allen. It is recycled and irrelevant.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Catch and Release
    Grant's film plays like a two-hour episode of "Friends" intercut with "Seventh Heaven." Those sounds you hear are wisecrack, heartbreak, heartbreak, wisecrack, wisecrack.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    We Were Soldiers
    One admires Wallace's intentions while despairing at his execution. Yet as clumsily directed as his film is, it inspires compassion for Moore, his men and their foes. And in that, there is merit.
    • 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.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    She Hate Me
    Like most Lee films, She Hate Me is gasp-worthy, with something to offend everyone. I will not say that I liked it. I will say that like "Bamboozled," it exasperates and resonates.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    Sugar Town
    A far more trenchant - and funnier - satire of the fame-afflicted than Woody Allen's "Celebrity."
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Accepted
    Paradoxically fast-talking and laid back, Long's Bartleby appears to be the illegitimate child of Groucho Marx and Ferris Bueller, one whose schemes are far more impressive than his deeds.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    The Band's Visit
    First-time filmmaker Kolirin paces his can-we-all-just-get-along? parable as if it were a silent comedy, which for long stretches it is. This movie about musicians has no soundtrack. Its musical moments are few, but potent.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Little Traitor
    All in all, a resonant theme, poorly played.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    The Upside of Anger
    Binder has written himself a scene-stealing supporting role as Shep, sleazeball producer.
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