Carrie Rickey

Carrie Rickey, an Inquirer film critic since 1986, was born in L.A. around the time the Jennifer Jones/Laurence Olivier movie Carrie hit screens. Hence her name. Since then she's seen more than 12,000 films without losing her love of movies -- or wordplay. But don't envy her job too much. She has to sit through the likes of Battlefield Earth just so she can warn you not to.

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Latest post: Karl Malden 1912 -- 2009 - 07/01/2009
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'Flickgrrl'

Posted 07/02/2009

Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey offers her take on movies at http://go.philly.com/flickgrrl

Karl Malden 1912 -- 2009

'Ice Age': The search for a plot - 06/30/2009: By Carrie Rickey, INQUIRER MOVIE CRITIC

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is the third installment in the animated movies about goofy prehistoric animals who form an interspecies clan. One might call this feeble attempt to wring every last nickel from a moderately enjoyable franchise "The Crass Menagerie."
Chéri **1/2 (out of four) - 06/26/2009: Directed by Stephen Frears, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend, distributed by Miramax. Running time: 1 hour, 32 mins.
A May-September love story - 06/25/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

About 20 years ago, filmmaker Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton adapted the novel Dangerous Liaisons. From Choderos de Laclos' defining document of 18th-century French literature, they spun a movie that brilliantly contrasted the cynics, who play love as a sport, against the romantics, visibly elevated by the union of two souls.
Next year, Oscars to field 10 best-picture nominees - 06/25/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

With yesterday's news that in February, the Oscars will field 10 best-picture nominees, the horse race that is the Academy Awards promises to look a lot more like - a horse race.
Transformers 2: Bigger, not better - 06/23/2009: By Carrie Rickey, INQUIRER MOVIE CRITIC

Movies don't get more mega than Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, a 21/2-hour sequel long on boom-boom-pow and short on boom-boom-wow!
Couple on a budget build an art trove - 06/18/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

This review originally appeared in March during coverage of the Philadelphia Film Festival and Philadelphia Cinefest 09. During the 1960s and 1970s, when American art was, for many, indecipherable, an unassuming New York couple named Herb and Dorothy Vogel cracked the code.
A hilarious marriage of slapstick and comedy - 06/18/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

In recent years the romantic comedy, or rom-com, has cross-fertilized with other genres, giving it new vigor. Rom-com and buddy movie mated to produce the bromance, the platonic love story between men (I Love You, Man). Last week, romance and caveman comedy hooked up to produce what you might call bro-magnon mischief (The Hangover).
Lovebirds looking for a home - 06/11/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

In the alterna-quirk spirit of Garden State and Juno comes Away We Go, the tale of a thirtyish couple ready to settle down but unsure of where.
Morticians at work, eliciting laughter as well as tears - 06/11/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Winner of this year's foreign-film Oscar, Departures veers from comedy to drama, occasionally taking a rest stop on the shoulder of sentiment. Yojiro Takita's movie simultaneously tickles tears of mourning as it wrings laughs about the meaning of life.
Daddy/daughter comedy with a feel-nice vibe - 06/11/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Imagine That, a family comedy about a workaholic Dad who finds that fatherhood is as rewarding as finance, reminded me of how funny Eddie Murphy is without a fat suit or flatulence gags.