CriticCrunch has 3 Kemp Powers titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
CriticCrunch Career Percentile
Top 1%
Titles Scored
3
Highest-Ranked Title
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Top 1%)
Primary Role
Writer
Career Overview
Best Work
Top 2%
3 titles scored
By genre
Animation
2
Drama
2
Titles can span multiple genres.
the vibe
Kemp Powers’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe
measuredbittersweetmoderatelayered
light-touch
epic
heartfelt
stylized
contemplative
Recurring themes
identity self discoveryoutsider misfitclose friendshipNew York
pacing
measured 5/9measured 5/9
tone
bittersweet 4/9wistful 4/9
intensity
moderate 5/9moderate 5/9
complexity
layered 5/9layered 5/9
humor
light-touch 4/9light 4/9
scale
epic 5/9epic 5/9
spirit
heartfelt 6/9heartfelt 6/9
texture
stylizedstyled
CriticCrunch Signature Pacing
measured (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Tone
bittersweet (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Intensity
moderate (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Complexity
layered (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Humor
light-touch (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Scale
epic (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Signature Spirit
heartfelt (mode across filmography)
CriticCrunch Recurring Themes
identity self discovery, outsider misfit, close friendship, new york
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Dir. Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos · With Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Dir. Pete Docter · With Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
Dir. Regina King · With Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge
