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
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    The Warrior
    What begins as Lafcadia's journey into the heart of darkness ends as his pilgrimage into the light. Stunning.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Focus
    Feels somehow incomplete. It may be that its visual metaphor is more effective in literature than in film.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    2 Fast 2 Furious
    Not to say that it isn't fun, only to say that it is more about sensation than sense.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    Year of the Dog
    Shannon is flawless.
    • 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.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    The Class
    French movies are not so neatly resolved. In fact, the point of many French movies, such as this provocative one from director Laurent Cantet, is that some problems don't have satisfying solutions - or resolutions.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    The Dreamers
    My guess is that The Dreamers will have a certain resonance for those of us who discovered movies and sex at the same time during the '60s. For the rest of you, the film is a curiosity about cinegenic youths baring their bodies while thinking they are baring their souls.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Hugely entertaining catalog of MPAA follies.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Van Wilder
    The result is a movie that is both laugh-out-loud funny and cringe-worthily silent.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Ultimately the voyage is so choppy and long (2 hours, 48 minutes) that into the third hour I found myself yawning, "Yo-ho-hum and a very sore bum."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Carrie Rickey
    Phone Booth
    A high-concept hostage drama of absolutely no value to anyone -- except maybe Bell Atlantic, whose titular street-corner pay phone is on screen for almost every agonizing frame.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Lucky Numbers
    This invitation to look down upon the stupidity of numskulls is one that should be declined as swiftly as a call to poke fun at Special Olympians.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    Those who know Austen novels will recognize how much each character resembles a figure in one of them. Those who do not will enjoy the amusing types. Men, this means you.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Roughly an hour in, Transformers 2 morphs from teen adventure into lumbering war movie. Bay and his screenwriters squander their human capital in order to show us scenes of 20-ton toys crushing 10-ton toys.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Carrie Rickey
    Drive Me Crazy
    Buoyed by the appealing Hart and Grenier.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Mad Money
    A likable and completely dispensable heist film starring two of the deftest comedians working (Keaton and Latifah), the film from Callie Khouri is itself an American retread of the British caper telefilm "Hot Money."
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    Iron Man
    Until a final conflict that more resembles a monster-truck jam than a superhero showdown, Iron Man is solid gold.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Carrie Rickey
    The Way of the Gun
    So many characters to keep track of, so little time!
    • 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?
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Carrie Rickey
    In America
    Wondrously emotional film, one that sneakily dismantles your defenses and purges grief you didn't realize you had.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    Last Days
    While Last Days succeeds as a nature documentary, Van Sant fails to penetrate human nature. The result is a portrait without a face.
    • 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Carrie Rickey
    The Bucket List
    Nothing wrong about a movie that says, Stop and smell the roses. Now, if only director Rob Reiner hadn't rubbed our noses in a bouquet of plastic blooms.
    • 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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