Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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For 505 reviews, this critic has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points lower than other critics.
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Rita Kempley's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 228 out of 505
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Mixed: 137 out of 505
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Negative: 140 out of 505
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Rita Kempley 100
As disturbing and densely beautiful as its opening image, a lofty forest that dwarfs the gangsters as they laugh over their kill. -
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Rita Kempley 100
More than just one of the best movies so far this year, it is a revolution in young-adult entertainment. -
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Rita Kempley 100
This engrossing mystery-comedy peeks through the keyholes of the rich and infamous in a manner both droll and delicious. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Merchant and Ivory have regathered many of the cast and crew from their earlier films to work on this reproduction to exquisite effect. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Hopkins and Thompson's downright marvelous duet is supported by a host of deft players, and the detailed re-creation of this small universe is in all ways remarkable. -
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Rita Kempley 100
An instant slapstick classic from Disney and Steven Spielberg. Already, it's a hare's breadth away from legend. [22 June 1988] -
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Rita Kempley 100
A magnificent melodrama that draws both tears and laughter from the everyday give-and-take of seemingly ordinary souls. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Like the eloquent, darkly funny dialogue, the film's characters, setting and cadences draw us into its world, with all its terrors and tenderness. What emerges is a masterpiece of Southern storytelling that draws a sharp line between good and evil. -
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Rita Kempley 100
It is a wacky, happy, daring, darkly comic tale of parenting outside the law. It celebrates the middle-of-the-road dreams of decidedly off-center folks. It's a bundle of joy. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Delicious with foreboding, a masterly suspense thriller that toys with our anticipation like a well-fed cat. -
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Rita Kempley 100
What "Raising Arizona" was to baby lust, "Barton Fink" is to writer's block -- a rapturously funny, strangely bittersweet, moderately horrifying and, yes, truly apt description of the condition and its symptoms. -
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Rita Kempley 100
A tour de force so haunting that other films can't exorcise the memory of its radiant cast, exquisite craftsmanship or complex system of metaphors. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a movie. -
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Rita Kempley 100
One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative. -
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Rita Kempley 100
With its spectacular scenery, stupefying effects and epic scope, is a dream come true. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, Blade Runner never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing. It helps, too, that it works as pure entertainment. -
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Rita Kempley 100
A great big beautiful valentine of a movie, an intoxicating romantic comedy set beneath the biggest, brightest Christmas moon you ever saw. It's a monster moon, a Moby Dick of a moon, whose radiance fills the winter sky and every cranny of this joyous love story. -
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Rita Kempley 100
The Little Shop of Horrors is a thoroughly original adaptation, if that's possible. With its toe-tapping cadences, its class cast and its king-sized cabbage, it's destined to become a classic of camp comedy. It's vege-magic. -
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Rita Kempley 100
Vincent & Theo is more than art appreciation, it is a treasure in its own right, unframed and arcing in the projector's light.- Posted Jun 3, 2013
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Rita Kempley 90
The real story lies beneath the surface of this superbly acted, strangely moving film. -
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Rita Kempley 90
A delectable reworking of the ultimate girl's myth, a corporate Cinderella story with shades of a self-made Pygmalion. -
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Rita Kempley 90
The French originals are always much breezier, the characters more genuine and the actors subtler even if the situations are just as silly. -
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Rita Kempley 90
Profound, powerful Czech import takes a tragicomic approach to the Holocaust, though unlike Benigni's film, the movie does not sentimentalize those caught up in the Nazi dragnet. -
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Rita Kempley 90
In a performance of enormous complexity and nuance, emotions seem to race across McKellen's face like hurrying clouds. -
