Brutalization of women is a constant in popular film
Author and commentator Carrie Rickey has written for the New York Times, Film Comment and the Village Voice and has reviewed movies for the Philadelphia Inquirer. At the movies, have you ever…
Carrie Rickey
Critical evolution theories
My 26-year tenure as a movie critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer coincided with a transformational period in moviemaking, exhibition and criticism itself. All have now migrated from analog to…
OSCAR'S YEAR OF THE WOMAN
It's the old good-news/bad-news joke, but not everyone is laughing. Consider the Goldie Hawn paradox. She starred in two films in 1996, was terrific in both, yet her gender and advancing years were…
