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Carrie Rickey
American film critic
Carrie Rickey (born November 26, 1952) is an American feminist art and film critic. Rickey was a film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1986 to 2011, and has contributed to The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Village Voice.
Her essays are collected in many books including The American Century[1] and American Movie Critics.[2] Rickey was an early champion of women filmmakers including Gillian Armstrong, Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay. During her tenure as a movie reviewer she covered technological evolutions in the industry from the video revolution to the rise of digital film, and has profiled artists and filmmakers from Clint Eastwood and Sidney Poitier to Elizabeth Taylor and Nora Ephron.