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Movie Reviews by Rita Kempley - Page 23 of 40

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Review of The Fast and the Furious (2001)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Oct 2002

The Fast and the Furious is Rebel Without a Cause without a cause. The young and the restless with gas fumes. The quick and the dead with skid marks…

Review of Double Dragon (1994)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Oct 2002

While clumsily paced by first-time director Jim Yukich and amateurishly acted, the picture does take place against the imaginative backdrop…

Review of Big Daddy (1999)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Oct 2002

Sweetly dopey, kid-friendly, if overly contrived comedy…

Review of Mulan (1998)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 15 Oct 2002

Mulan may be exotic, but it's hardly a risky enterprise, what with its sentimental show tunes, wholesome morals and plucky teen heroine…

Review of Firewalker (1986)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 06 Oct 2002

A piddling non-adventure with Louis Gossett Jr. as a namby-pamby sidekick. It's Gung-Ho and Gunga Din, in yet another variation on the Raiders theme…

Review of Save the Last Dance (2001)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Sep 2002

Takes its cues from the musical dramas of the '70s, but this otherwise engaging young-adult romance never quite catches Saturday night fever…

Review of My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Aug 2002

A misbegotten attempt to update the genre that only proves the enduring -- if not downright inviolable -- appeal of the boy-meets-girl scenario…

Review of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Aug 2002

Defiantly sophomoric, often hilarious and crude as all get-out…

Review of The Jungle Book (1994)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Aug 2002

The narrative shifts from romance to adventure the way Cheetah used to hop from foot to foot, but Sommers nevertheless delivers a bully family…

Review of The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Jul 2002

Vincent Patrick, author of the best-selling novel, wrote the screenplay that gives the actors, including the superb Geraldine Page, plenty…

Review of K-PAX (2001)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Jul 2002

Primarily, it's a warm, fuzzy and funny duet between Spacey and Bridges, one that brings to mind the interplay between Spock and Kirk…

Review of Saint (1997)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Jun 2002

Though he is a master thief with a heart of gold, the new Templar has all the charm of one of those ladies behind the counter at the Department…

Review of Home for the Holidays (1995)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Jun 2002

The movie faithfully records the rivalries among the various members of a fractious Baltimore family, but it never really attempts to resolve…

Review of The Secret of My Success (1987)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Jun 2002

This belabored charade of mistaken identities is guided by Herbert Ross, who has directed everything from The Sunshine Boys to Footloose…

Review of The Nutty Professor (1996)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Jun 2002

Murphy owes much of his success to the amazing special-effects makeup by Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London), but he brings a tenderness…

Review of Angel Heart (1987)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Jun 2002

As fascinating as it is frightful. But despite all the occult patter and tony trimmings, Angel Heart is bogus -- only the bogeyman again…

Review of Toy Story (1995)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 26 May 2002

Though computer-animated rather than hand-drawn, this wry, rippingly paced buddy movie is as delightful in its own way as any of Walt Disney's…

Review of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Apr 2002

Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan, a television veteran making his feature film debut, has fluffed up this undemanding material much as one would…

Review of Pocahontas (1995)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Feb 2002

There's a sense of mystery in this purply palette and one of majesty in the landscapes, but the drama of the drawings is never really echoed…

Review of Spawn (1997)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Jan 2002

The nonsensical screenplay can barely stand-up to the hellzapoppin,' Beelzebubbin' effects mustered by first-time director Mark Dippe…

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