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Carrie Rickey

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The American President (1995) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “As lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade, Bening is so winning that it's hard to understand why the president's approval rating plummets when he starts dating her. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% 4/4 EDIT “Stand by Me is a small, quiet film that walks tall and resonates long after.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 3/4 EDIT “Big Top Pee-wee is a three-ring circus of a movie with roughly two worth watching.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 3/4 EDIT “A stylish, low-key comedy of Eros. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “One of The Celluloid Closet's many revelations is that as long as there have been films, there have been homosexuals on film. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “To say that Tron envisions technology as it has never been seen before is an understatement. No movie more deserves the praise, state of the art.” – Village Voice Oct 6, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Despite its subject matter and title, To Sleep With Anger has a sardonic, comic edge.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The oddness of this film that literally jumps with talent and energy is that it engages the audience without ever involving us.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 2/4 EDIT “Raimi's visceral camera work is engaging for about five minutes. It might be engaging throughout were it in the service of a coherent plot.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 26, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% 3/4 EDIT “In the compelling High and Low, everything has two meanings. It's a film about the psychology of greed and it's a police thriller hurtling as fast as the Tokyo-Kyoto bullet train.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “How funny is it? I'm snickering too hard to answer. Not only does David Zucker's preposterously silly film stoop to new comic lows to get you to laugh, it even does the limbo. And cha-chas, too. With arms akimbo and legs splayed.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 23, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Lost World is a B-minus monster movie with A-plus production values... Because Spielberg makes movies that elicit such primal fears, nothing can touch this film for sheer skill and thrill.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Child's Play (1988) 64% EDIT “Child's Play is fairly preposterous for the genre. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 5, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “Harron... has made an extremely glossy, shallow movie about an extremely glossy, shallow man.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Though this directorial debut of screenwriter Bruce Robinson reads more like a well-wrought short story than a feature film, his characters are finely drawn and their dialogue wickedly funny.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Scream 3 (2000) 45% 2/4 EDIT “At 116 minutes, this third installment lumbers along like a serial killer in shackles. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% 3/4 EDIT “The fear will send you into your companion's arms, the laughs are cathartic, and Campbell and Courtney Cox kick almost as much butt as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “While Disney's 35th animated feature is not the stuff of classical studies, it is a classical gas.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% 3.5/4 EDIT “Move over, Bambi. Step aside, Simba. That promontory over which the stag and the lion king once presided is permanently the province of that woodland princess, Pocahontas. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 4/4 EDIT “Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, who previously collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors and The Little Mermaid, have written a score that sings.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Shall We Dance? (1996) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “This disarming and delightful tale prescribes rumba replacement therapy for male menopause and has a tonic effect on the audience, too.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% 2/4 EDIT “While Beetlejuice will make absolutely no sense to those who demand coherence from a film, all viewers will delight in its dizzy, postliterate, postmodern style. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% 2.5/5 EDIT “For all of its faults, Magnolias is in good company. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer May 3, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% 2/4 EDIT “For the too-few minutes Yogurt is on screen, Spaceballs is a savagely funny complaint about the kind of movie more memorable for its spinoff products than for itself. The remainder of the airheaded Spaceballs just has no bounce.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Little Women (1994) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Like the book, the new film is timeless. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 11, 2024 Full Review
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