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: Cool to Be Uncool - 02/09/2010
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Email Carrie at crickey@phillynews.com

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Absence just makes this flick grow duller - 02/04/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

In the reliably moist novels of Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook and Message in a Bottle - life is a beach, love shifts like a sand castle in a storm, and lovers don't know what they've got till it's gone.
One for the ladies - 02/02/2010: Kathryn Bigelow is well positioned to become the first female Oscar winner for directing. Take that, "Avatar."

By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Kathryn Bigelow made history Saturday when the director of The Hurt Locker, a tale of risk junkies defusing improvised explosive devices in Iraq, became the first woman to receive top honors from the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
Our critics' selections - 01/30/2010: The Book of Eli From filmmakers Albert and Allen Hughes, a thriller starring Denzel Washington as a mystical pilgrim in postapocalypse America. In his backpack he carries a precious cargo that, despite the uncivilized times, ensures the survival of civilization. R
Don't throw coins for this Roman romance - 01/28/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

When in Rome, do as the Rom-coms do? If only. An inert comedy starring Kristen Bell as a workaholic unlucky in love, When in Rome is a rom-bomb.
No spring film fest for Phila. this year - 01/28/2010: CineFest cited finances. A schism led to two movie events last year. Too much, some say.

By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Come April, for the first time in 19 years, there will be no Philadelphia international film festival. Citing economic challenges, longtime producers of the annual spring affair - which sold 65,000 tickets to its 18th edition in 2009 - canceled the 2010 installment.
Our critics' selections - 01/23/2010: The Book of Eli From filmmakers Albert and Allen Hughes, a thriller starring Denzel Washington as a mystical pilgrim in post-apocalypse America. In his backpack he carries a precious cargo that, despite the uncivilized times, ensures the survival of civilization. R
A script with a lot of decay, little wisdom - 01/21/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

The Rock can't handle the tooth. The former wrestler also known as Dwayne Johnson has a high-beam smile and a self-mocking style. These traits should serve him well in Tooth Fairy.
Medical drama in poor condition - 01/21/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Two of John Crowley's children have a fatal neuromuscular disorder, Pompe disease. Doctors tell John his son has months to live, his daughter perhaps a year. His is a Sophie's Choice. Should he spend what little time his children have left on earth with them? Or should the Bristol Myers-Squibb executive work around the clock pushing scientists and venture capitalists to produce a drug that might prolong their lives?
Most of the big winners were the blockbusters - 01/19/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Sunday night's Golden Globes, with big wins for Avatar, Up, The Hangover, Mad Men and Glee, is a case study in the convergent media universe where big business, show business and benevolence supercollide into advertainment-a-thon.
Wild, wild Warren - 01/15/2010: The Beatty matings and movies are classics. "Star" smartly, salaciously probes the driven Hollywood mogul.

In the Hollywood pantheon, Warren Beatty is both Narcissus and Proteus. When the strapping 6-footer crouched down to behold his reflection in the pool, he rippled the waters to give his face a soft-focus effect.