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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.
- Video: The Tempest
It figures that Julie Taymor, theater magician of The Lion King, film conjurer of Across the Universe, Shakespeare interpreter who made her movie debut with Titus, would be drawn to The Tempest, the one about the sorcerer who unsettles the seas before settling scores.
It's game on - and off-the-wall - in TRON: Legacy, the follow-up to the 1982 film that explored the inner life of video games and was way ahead of its time.
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How Do You Know
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Carrie Rickey: James L. Brooks' How Do You Know is an enjoyable if uneven comic romance, more of the prickly-pear than love-apple variety.
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The King's Speech
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Carrie Rickey: Under Tom Hooper's deft direction, The King's Speech packs the suspense of a thriller: Will the monarch falter before the crosshairs of the microphone or rise to eloquence, rallying his people to unite against Fascism?
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Carrie Rickey: Maybe it's the postproduction 3-D enhancements, but in this effects-laden Odyssey for tweens, sometimes humans and beasts seem more wax-and-paint than flesh-and-blood.
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Burlesque
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Carrie Rickey: "Burlesque," starring Christina and Cher, is a preposterous and intermittently entertaining lesson in how to make a movie musical with a little brains and a lot of talent.
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Tangled
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Carrie Rickey: A fractured fairy tale in the spirit of "Enchanted," "Tangled" is a boy-friendly version of Rapunzel, more of a hair-raising adventure than a yearning romance. But the Disney offering lacks the emotional undercurrents of a movie from the studio's Pixar division.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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Carrie Rickey: When Warner Brothers announced that it planned to split the seventh, and final, installment of J.K. Rowling's wizarding septology into two separate films, I figured it was all about the money. Turns out it was all about the story.
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Morning Glory
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Rachel McAdams streaks across Morning Glory, a diverting comedy about the three-ring circus of morning programs, like dimples shot from a cannon. She's sharp, sexy and funny.
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Tamara Drewe
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Tamara Drewe is a minor work from a major director. Stephen Frears (The Grifters, The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons) confected this larky British comedy inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by way of Posy Simmonds' graphic novel.
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Due Date
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Did somebody say Dude Date? Due Date, a shaggy odd-couple Odyssey made by the director of The Hangover, stars Robert Downey Jr. as Peter, uptight architect and expectant father, and Zach Galifianakis as Ethan, free-spirited actor and proud papa of an excitable French bulldog.
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For Colored Girls
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Carrie Rickey: Profound performances do not a profound movie make. Case in point: For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry's all-star adaptation of Ntozake Shange's acclaimed 1975 play.
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