AWFJ Women On Film - Rom-com Autopsy - Carrie Rickey comments
Maureen Dowd says they don’t make romantic comedies like they used to. But the death of the rom-com is greatly exaggerated. Read more>>
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey has been The Philadelphia Inquirer's film critic for 21 years and writes the newspaper's Flickgrrl blog. She has reviewed films as diverse as "Water" and "The Waterboy," profiled celebrities from Lillian Gish to Will Smith, and reported on technological beakthroughs from the video revolution to the rise of movies on demand. Her reviews are syndicated nationwide and she is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and NPR. Rickey's essays appear in numerous anthologies, including "The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll," "The American Century," and the Library of America's "American Movie Critics."
Articles by Carrie Rickey
AWFJ Women On Film - Patricia Neal, 1926-2010 - Carrie Rickey comments
What you remember about Patricia Neal is that tobacco-cured voice and those appraising eyes that in a glance could take the measure of a man to the millimeter. Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - Julie Christie on TCM - Carrie Rickey comments
Julie Christie was the harbinger of 1960s London, the first tremor of the youthquake to come, this Mod who possessed the opposite of the British stiff upper lip. Christie’s overripe underlip signalled a creature of variable moods, by turns determined, libidinous, petulant. Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - How Movies Repaint the Image of the American Families - Carrie Rickey comments
If Norman Rockwell were alive today, when there’s a smorgasbord of options for building a clan, his picture of the American dinner might resemble the post-nuclear family of The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy opening Friday. Here are two lesbian mothers, their two teenagers - each the offspring of one of them - and the sperm-donor dad gathered around the picnic table, getting to know each other over burgers and chips 18 years after bio-dad’s deposit at the sperm bank.Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - Lindsay Lohan and Teen-Star Disorder - Carrie Rickey comments
Is there a way for Hollywood to help teen stars navigate the rough transition to adulthood? Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - Barbra Streisand, Polarizer - Carrie Rickey comments
Some days it seems that the world is divided into two types of people, those who love to hate Barbra Streisand and those who hate to love her. Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - “Twilight: Eclipse” - Carrie Rickey comments
As Hollywood tosses a new generation of stars like so much spaghetti against the wall, which ones will stick? Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - “Princess Ka’iulani” - Review by Carrie Rickey
Is Q’orianka Kilcher doomed to play the bridge between indigenous and colonial peoples? Read more>>
AWFJ Women On Film - “Princess Ka’iulani” - Review by Susan Granger
This potentially fascinating tale of how the Hawaiian Islands lost their independence and were annexed to the United States, coupled with the romantic saga of a beloved half-Hawaiian, half-Scottish princess who battled injustice, is ripe with potential. But British filmmaker Marc Forby drains the inherent drama out of the true story, rendering it a one-dimensional period piece more suitable for the History Channel. Read the rest of this entry »
AWFJ Women On Film - “Kites” - Review by Carrie Rickey
Bollywood mashup stale as yesterday’s mashed potatoes. Read more>>