Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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For 1,215 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.6 points higher than other critics.
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Carrie Rickey's Scores
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Positive: 914 out of 1215
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Mixed: 225 out of 1215
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Negative: 76 out of 1215
1,215
movie reviews
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Carrie Rickey 88
Its deceptive simplicity makes A Better Life so emotionally profound.- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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Carrie Rickey 88
Though one gets a sense there is part of the story Marks isn't telling, we do pay attention to the man behind the curtain.- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Carrie Rickey 88
Rees tells Alike's story in vignettes that are sometimes slapstick, sometimes heartbreaking, always tender.- Posted Jan 12, 2012
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Carrie Rickey 88
The mosaic of cases and caseworkers is like a season of "The Wire" distilled into two hours.- Posted May 24, 2012
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Carrie Rickey 88
DuVernay, a low-key director sparing in her use of emotion and music, has made an existential drama that is European in its feel.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Carrie Rickey 88
It's hard to know whether this is a function of the sympathetic screenplay or of Krieger's sympathetic direction - or both - but Celeste and Jesse are endearing even when they do unsympathetic things.- Posted Aug 16, 2012
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Carrie Rickey 75
It is a pleasant, undemanding movie that takes place over 18 hours on V-Day and considers Very Attractive People whose romantic destinies converge, diverge, and cloverleaf like the interstates threading through California's Southland. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Though not as lyrical as "The Road," which benefits from both its visual artistry and its humanist perspective, The Book of Eli employs the genre conventions of the western to make mythic its principal character. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Vintage Terry Gilliam, a pour not to all tastes but one certain to please lovers of "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." -
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Carrie Rickey 75
You go to a Daniels movie not to be entertained, but edified. While not everyone goes to the movies for self-improvement, you will leave this one having witnessed phenomenal acting. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
A one-of-a-kind experience that boasts a twice-in-a-lifetime performance from Nicolas Cage. The actor has not gone this deep into the abyss since "Vampire's Kiss" (1989). -
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Carrie Rickey 75
This unsettling, shaggy, surrealistic pillow of a movie - a mixed bag more funny-strange than ha-ha. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
A melodrama painted in the saffron-and-turmeric hues of a Bollywood musical, Broken Embraces is the Spanish filmmaker's homage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo," that moody account of obsessional love and double lives. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Whip It (which takes its name from a play in which skaters hold hands and form a human whip to propel the last skater forward) is heaven on wheels. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Given this swoon-inducer, Summit Entertainment would be well-advised to set up fainting couches in the multiplex lobby and provide smelling salts to those who need them. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
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. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Bakula is the ideal surrogate for a perplexed audience. Similarly, Whitacre's exasperated wife, played by Melanie Lynskey, is drily funny. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
The film is an omnibus ride through Brighton Beach, Central Park, the West Village, and Tribeca. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Shakespearean but overlong, The Dark Knight is two hours of heady, involving action that devolves into a mind-numbing 32-minute epilogue. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
De Niro's minimalist performance has maximum emotional impact and succeeds in unifying the episodic film. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Swank is no mere impersonator. Her Amelia, like Maggie in "Million Dollar Baby," is unwavering in her gaze, ambition, and drive... In Nair's evocatively art-directed (and sensationally costumed) film, Earhart comes alive. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
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. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
A double shot of Saturday-night lowdown chased by a cheery chug of Sunday-morning uplift. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
Heigl, a double-dip of praline with caramel, is so beautiful that initially you don't notice her comic chops. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
The unassuming performances by Krasinski and Rudolph help make this the first Mendes movie that feels lived-in rather than staged. -
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Carrie Rickey 75
When the tobacco is extinguished what comes between April and Frank Wheeler is bigger, colder and more formidable than the iceberg that sundered Kate and Leo in "Titanic": shattered hope. -
