For 1,215 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 7.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Carrie Rickey's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 67
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
1,215 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 83
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Ryan may not be admirable, but Clooney makes him relatable. It's his deepest and nakedest performance.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    There is nothing sentimental or picturesque about the performances or imagery. The word that best describes both is elemental.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    It is the most influential movie you've never seen, deeply affecting many artists and experimental directors who saw it on the museum circuit in 1977 and 1978.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    A captivating cine-memoir, impressionistic and surrealistic, surveying Varda's formidable career as a still photographer, filmmaker, documentarian, and life force.
    • Metascore: 98
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    This is the breakthrough work of one of world cinema's most visionary artists.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Carrie Rickey 100
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    The exhilarating film pays tribute to Buster Keaton's "The Balloonatic" by way of its slapstick, and to Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" by way of its watercolor palette and traveling domicile.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Exhilarating, edgy and wryly comic.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Intimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, and universal as first love, the PG-rated film positively palpitates with the sensual and spiritual.
    • Metascore: 89
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Lives is a best-foreign-film nominee competing in a year that at least three movies in this category are stronger than Oscar's best-picture contenders.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    This psycho-thriller, a Golden Globe winner and presumptive favorite for the foreign-film Oscar, itself is revelatory.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Persepolis, the superb film based on Satrapi's graphic memoirs of the same name, is a riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Piercingly funny and unexpectedly moving account of that odd couple, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and HRH Elizabeth II (majestic Helen Mirren) and their back-channels affair.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Cinderella Man is not a movie about boxing, but about this boxer who personified the heart and hope of 1935.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Werner Herzog's magnificent tragedy, Grizzly Man, a Shakespearean character study that packs the sheer terror of "The Blair Witch Project."
    • Metascore: 76
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    For two hours I felt like a kitten chasing an elusive ball of catnip that remained just beyond my paw.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    At the film's intimate best, it gives a guitar's perspective of the troubadour. He plucks his instrument as he plays our heartstrings. It's movie and music bliss.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Profound, passionate and overflowing with incomparable beauty, Water, like the prior two films in director Deepa Mehta's "Elements" trilogy, celebrates the lives of women who resist marginalization by Indian society.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Courageous, shattering and exceptional documentary.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Throughout the film its makers pose the question of whether saving a work of art is as important as saving a human life. The question is not answered, and perhaps ultimately unanswerable. Yet Europa movingly shows how for many, art and artifacts are living things.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    The film's climax involves a father and son reunion that is tense, tragic and, finally, as transcendent as Mohammad himself.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Washington blows you away. To say he gives the performance of his career is an understatement.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    As irresistible as Chan is irrepressible. In a movie season in which, it seems, all the blockbusters boast wheels, it's a treat to see a movie that has legs.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Not only is it the best documentary in a vintage season for nonfiction films (see "American Splendor," "Capturing the Friedmans," and "Spellbound"), it's also one of the best films of the year. It's as lyrical about the particulars of Kahn as it is about the universals of fathers and sons.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    If we approach with sympathy and curiosity, we will be rewarded with same. And our souls, not to mention our bicycles, will soar to the heavens.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Sunnier and sillier than most of Allen's recent work, makes its belly laughs heartwarming. It's a most winning movie about losers.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    Spoofy and sweet... endearingly old-fashioned.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    That rare thing, a Hollywood teen flick transfigured into something like pubescent scripture: In the beginning, there was lust; in the end, there is knowledge.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Carrie Rickey 100
    An elusive and profoundly moving essay about the stages of amour and of age. Like the best of Godard's movies -- and I haven't been sucked into one since "Passion" (1982) -- it is visually ravishing, penetrating, impenetrable.