Example sentences for: kempley

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  • Others say the film has the "earnest simplicity of a freshman philosophy paper" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and "ends in the cheesiest of plot twists" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Stills and clips are available here.)

  • Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...

  • Though some had doubted she'd make a convincing straight woman, the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley gibes that "[s]he seems to have mastered the nuances of heterosexuality."

  • "A narrative as obtuse as a tax form" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Others praise its stylish, dark colors; terse dialogue; and self-referential humor.

  • had a better handle on the White House," says the Washington Post's Rita Kempley.


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