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Carrie Rickey 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.
Last Train Home, Lixin Fan's compelling documentary portrait of the human sacrifice behind China's economic miracle, begins with a startling statistic.
Carrie Rickey: A glop of rom-com pabulum, Life as We Know It stars Katherine Heigl as Holly, tightly wound Atlanta chef, and Josh Duhamel as Messer, loosey-goosey sports producer.
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Secretariat
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Secretariat, an equine Chariots of Fire, is the true-life tale of the mighty chestnut stallion known to intimates as Big Red.
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Jack Goes Boating
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Jack, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Jack Goes Boating, is a middle-aged man encased in baby fat and periodically immobilized by teen terrors. In this film, the actor's film directorial debut, Jack might be the spawn of Ernest Borgnine's Marty.
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'Waiting for "Superman"' asks how to rescue public schools
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Superman and Green Lantern have nothing on Geoffrey Canada, educator and bright light of Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's devastating portrait of American public schools.
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The Social Network
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The Social Network is an enthralling, near-perfect comedy of manners from David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin.
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You Again
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There's a word for the kind of female-driven movie that men don't want to see for fear their manhood might shrivel. We won't mention it here. But we will say that You Again is the kind of female-driven drivel that women don't want to see for fear their womanhood might atrophy.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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Oliver Stone's bookend Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps glistens and bursts like the 2008 banking bubble it chronicles.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
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Gladiatorial owls? Talk about ruffling feathers. Based on the novels by Kathryn Lasky, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is an eye-popping, animated 3-D combat film where the winged adversaries wear armor on beaks, breasts, and talons.
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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
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Zhang Yimou, director of operatic spectacles such as Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, and the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is a dazzling stylist with a painterly command of color and an eye for panoramic compositions.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
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The Jimi Hendrix of the East Village, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a rock star among 1980s painters and member of the exclusive "27 Club." Namely, that group of artists, like Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, who sought self-knowledge in their self-destruction and flamed out at 27.
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Easy A
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Carrie Rickey: Why are high school boys who lose their virginity called studs and girls who do so called skanks? This question is brought to you by Easy A, a sassy satire of The Scarlet Letter that skewers such double standards.
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