Kyle Smith, New York Post
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For 1,055 reviews, this critic has graded:
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33% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.7 points lower than other critics.
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Kyle Smith's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 408 out of 1055
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Mixed: 166 out of 1055
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Negative: 481 out of 1055
1,055
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- Kyle Smith
Dropping by on the same people every seven years like an old friend - or an unwelcome relative - Apted has constructed a peerless, suspenseful work that develops character to a depth that would make Tolstoy jealous. If you have any interest in documentaries, watch the DVD of the first film, "7 Up" (49 Up hits DVD Nov. 14). You won't be able to stop. -
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A sublime meditation that is one of this year's wisest, warmest and funniest films. -
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Ridiculous comedies can be fine, but the ones that matter creep up close to the truth. This one lives in it. -
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What a sweet collision is Rescue Dawn: the American psycho meets the German kook. -
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Director Zack Snyder's cerebral, scintillating follow-up to "300" seems, to even a weary filmgoer's eye, as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as "2001" must have seemed in 1968, yet in its eagerness to argue with itself, it resembles "A Clockwork Orange." -
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Getting a small cohort of humanity dead right is an impressive artistic achievement, but Mike Leigh's beautifully modulated English drama Another Year advances even farther.- Posted Dec 29, 2010
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- Kyle Smith
It's not a knock on Steven Spielberg to say he is history's finest maker of children's movies. His capacity to evoke simplicity, awe, beauty and unconditional love are his genius, and his vision of the children's story War Horse is a gorgeous, majestic fable about a boy who yearns to be reunited with his steed.- Posted Dec 23, 2011
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- Kyle Smith
56 Up is as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries, beginning in 1964 with "7 Up."- Posted Jan 4, 2013
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- Kyle Smith
The Last King of Scotland is a parable shocking in its truth, jolting in its lack of sentimentality, Shakespearean in its vision of the doctor's catastrophic flaw. -
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Dizzy with celebrity, New York society and gay life (if all that isn't the same thing), Infamous is more fun. But "Capote" is a better movie. -
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Coppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder. -
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Five people did escape, and they contribute their stories to the spellbinding documentary. -
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If Martin Scorsese were 30 and a Los Angeleno, he'd be making movies much like this one. -
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Actors tell us that dying is easy, comedy is hard. But comedies about dying are hardest of all. -
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It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman. -
- Kyle Smith
Mighty entertainment that makes you feel sorry for the saps next door in the multiplex. -
- Kyle Smith
The movie all but proclaims U2 the world's best rock band. Somewhere, Mick Jagger's jaws are grinding. -
- Kyle Smith
The highest praise I can give a superhero movie is that it makes me forget about its 10-cent-comic-book soul. -
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There is too much funny here for a movie (even though it continues into the closing credits). Step Brothers should be a TV show. -
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The twists are executed superbly, right up to a climax that fits the David Mamet definition of what makes for a perfect ending: It is both surprising and inevitable. -
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The Wrestler offers something to pretty much everyone in the audience. Much like "The Sopranos," it creates a world that might make you feel utterly at home or exhilarated by strange horrors. Maybe both. -
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The slacker comedy-drama-romance-whatever Gigantic will fulfill all your alterna-movie weirdness requirements. -
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Lymelife, set amid marital decay and teen frustration, isn't quite the "American Beauty" of the 516 area code, but it'll do. -
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Turns out to be one of the most absorbing films of the year. Plus it has lots of wiener jokes. -
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Two fins up for The Cove, a documentary that whales on evil Japanese fishermen who kill dolphins for lunch meat. -
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Despite the lingering aroma of Victorian rot shrouding 1961, An Education is excitingly young. -
- Kyle Smith
After seeing Everybody's Fine, Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.
