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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"Polisse" portrays a year in the lives of the Children´s Protection Unit of the Paris police.

'Polisse': Cops coping with abused kids and their abusers

By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Posted 05/24/2012

Carrie Rickey: Polisse, a riveting cop procedural, follows a year in the lives of agents attached to the Children's Protection Unit (CPU) of the Paris police. Based on actual cases, this is keenly observed fiction packing the force, and rough edges, of fact.

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The Parkway as Phila.’s ‘Museum Mile’ - 05/03/2012: By Carrie Rickey, FOR THE INQUIRER

When moving the Barnes Foundation to the Parkway was still an idea, some wondered what it would mean to have the Art Museum, Rodin Museum and the Barnes together. Now we know.
Turn Me On, Dammit! - 04/27/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Alma, a jonquil-thin blonde with a passing resemblance to Taylor Swift, is 15 and sprouting in the Norwegian town of Skoddeheimen, where there's one bus stop and many, many sheep. She lives with her single mother in a state of chronic frustration, sexual and social.
Winning cast plays the game - 04/19/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: Everybody wins in this disarming comedy based on comedian Steve Harvey's self-help book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, that inventories the strategies of both the offense and the defense.
Being Flynn - 03/15/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: Nick Flynn's dissolute father, Jonathan, long had been a presence in his absence.
21 Jump Street - 03/15/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: It's a remake! It's a retread! It's a - re-booty! Whatever you call 21 Jump Street, this potty-mouthed and drug-laced reimagining of the 1980s TV show has one of the highest laughs-per-minute ratios since the Naked Gun films.
Carrie Rickey: Highs, lows at the old Oscars - 02/28/2012: Billy Crystal did his best with flicks seen by few. Lots of "Huh?" moments, too.

By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

'So tonight, enjoy yourselves," Billy Crystal greeted the audience at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday night, "because nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues." Deft. Very deft.
Wanderlust - 02/23/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) are not living the dream but it is, tantalizingly, within reach.
The Secret World of Arrietty - 02/16/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: Her parents have one rule, which their adventurous daughter breaks in the opening sequence of The Secret World of Arrietty: Don't let the humans see you! Lucky for us, at first she doesn't realize she is visible.
This Means War - 02/16/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: The objective is thimble-size Lauren (Reese Witherspoon). Two CIA agents, best buds, pursue her romantically. The unfunny joke is that they spy on each other's dates as they might on a terrorist's activities.
2012 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action - 02/09/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer

Carrie Rickey: Where feature films conform to the three-act structure of drama, movie short subjects are more like short stories.

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W.E. - 02/09/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 01/19/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer
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Pariah - 01/12/2012: By Carrie Rickey, For The Inquirer
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