For 506 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Rita Kempley's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Barton Fink
Lowest review score: 0 Total Recall
Score distribution:
506 movie reviews
    • 10 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Puerile bluster.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Another cheesy, overdrawn and witless "Saturday Night Live" takeoff.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    A noisy, impenetrable and totally nonsensical cogitation on the nature of firefighters and the sizzling "animal" they love...We just wish somebody would call 911 for boredom.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Chris Farley walks into walls, trips over invisible banana peels and otherwise makes a fat ass of himself in this imbecilic, slapstick adventure from the producers of "Dumb and Dumber."
    • 39 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    An abominable, abdominal comedy. Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie’s chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    If you choose to see this puerile tripe, check your dignity at the door.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Bewildering, tediously violent.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    We should be asking ourselves why so noble a nation would produce swill like Joe Dirt.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Another tediously sanctimonious message movie from Alan Parker.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Should never have been released, not even on video. It should have been placed in a hazardous waste container, encased in concrete and dumped into the Farrelly brothers' septic tank.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Ought to be the subject of an obituary, not a review. A creepy film noir modeled on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," it was a stinking stiff on arrival.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Nielsen earns a few giggles with his big entrance and later on his even bigger belly, but he can't overcome the lousy material.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    The only good thing you can say about "Rocky V" is that at least Stallone has the sense to throw in the towel.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    It's a moralistic muddle with only one message: If Disney wants to make movies about Germans, it should restrict its efforts to German shepherds.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    The slogging melodrama that emerged still more closely resembles the daily musings of an infatuated teenager than a well-crafted, thoughtful story. [14 Aug 1998]
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Rita Kempley
    Legends of the Fall is a magnificent bore: a western saga lolling in its own immensity - its big music, its big scenery and, yes, its big hair
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    A gruesome tale of obsessive love and mutilation, it's less a work of art, however, than a luridly stylish expression of female self-loathing...A prettied-up snuff movie.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    Sheer torture, the very definition of unfunniness itself.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    See critic run. Oh, for the days of Smell-a-Vision.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    Stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    If there is a Hell, Not Another Teen Movie will be playing for all eternity on every screen there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    The overall effect is like wading through hospital waste. Verhoeven, who also directed the maliciously stylistic "Robocop," disappoints with this appalling onslaught of blood and boredom.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 0 Rita Kempley
    Broken Arrow, a deafening, brain-deadening action thriller, takes a mighty blase approach to nuking Denver.
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