Kyle Smith, New York Post
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For 999 reviews, this critic has graded:
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33% higher than the average critic
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67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.5 points lower than other critics.
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Kyle Smith's Scores
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Positive: 391 out of 999
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Mixed: 159 out of 999
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Negative: 449 out of 999
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Kyle Smith 25
To compete with the quintessence of nullity that is Sofia Coppola's insufferable Somewhere, imagine a film called "Wanna See Me Crack My Knuckles?" or possibly "Let's Learn How Long It Takes This Shallow Dish of Liquid To Evaporate."- Posted Dec 22, 2010
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Kyle Smith 38
If you're wondering why this movie must stretch past two hours, it's because it takes that long to read every item in the cliché dictionary.- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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Kyle Smith 38
Banal at the beginning and preposterous at the close, the British horror film Kill List jumbles together wildly incongruous ingredients to create a dramatic mush.- Posted Feb 3, 2012
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Kyle Smith 25
Almost without exception, the men are either sickening deviants or wise mentors while the ladies tend to be kickboxing hipsters or victims of sexual abuse (many are both). -
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Kyle Smith 50
The documentary Darfur Now proves that - no matter how im portant the subject matter - following various people around with a camera doesn't necessarily make a film. -
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Kyle Smith 63
Stieve and Glosserman may yet strike a vein: This thing screams out for a Hollywood remake with, say, writers from "The Simpsons." -
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Kyle Smith 25
Time for another of Steven Soderbergh's "experimental," i.e., half-assed, films. -
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Kyle Smith 50
Romero's we're-all-doomed-and-maybe-we-deserve-it pessimism is so extreme he would fit right in with a real group of brain-eaters: the French. -
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Kyle Smith 63
Though thin on story, the film shows poise and vision, using bleak cinema-realité techniques with chilling effect. Campos promises to be heard from again. -
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Kyle Smith 63
In the end (which continues into the credits), I was left thinking McDonagh can do better than this, and yet I was slightly more agog with admiration than peevish with frustration. Most of all, I wanted to see the film again.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Kyle Smith 63
Fly Away is more situation than story, though, and the Germann character's welcoming, almost saintly vibe doesn't fit.- Posted Apr 15, 2011
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Kyle Smith 25
A documentary that uses against Atwater images of lynch mobs, decades-old racist comments of his onetime boss Strom Thurmond, and a clip of Bryant Gumbel calling him "the architect of the evil campaign." -
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Kyle Smith 63
On the M. Night Shyamalan scale of stupid endings, The Prestige isn't as bad as "The Village" but it's comparable to "Unbreakable." -
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Kyle Smith 50
It's the Food Network meets The Weather Channel meets . . . the Scary Doomsday Preachers Channel. -
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Kyle Smith 75
October Country doesn't really have a point, or a story, but it's an almost unbearably vivid portrait of four generations in a single working-class family. -
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Kyle Smith 50
IF you like rap, you'll probably enjoy The Hip Hop Project. I don't like rap. -
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Kyle Smith 88
Adding goofy uncertainty to shoulders as wide as the East River makes for a disarming hero in one of the spiffiest WWII action yarns ever to march out of Hollywood.- Posted Jul 22, 2011
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Kyle Smith 50
A buffet of dumb and degrading stunts halfway between Looney Tunes and Abu Ghraib? -
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Kyle Smith 75
May serve as a useful way to introduce teens to what World War II in Europe was like.- Posted Mar 18, 2011
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Kyle Smith 88
Like the paintings of the master, Renoir is beautiful to look at, but it would be a mistake to call the film (or its subject) shallow.- Posted Mar 28, 2013
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Kyle Smith 88
A brutally funny deconstruction, a hybrid of “Watchmen” and “Superbad” filtered through John Woo. It’s a boisterously original piece of entertainment . . . that isn’t for everyone. Note the rating, which should be triple-R, as in Really, Remarkably R. -
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Kyle Smith 25
Stakes aren't the only problem with this sloppy thriller, which combines careening images with turgid storytelling.- Posted Aug 23, 2012
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Kyle Smith 75
Stirring as it frequently is, The Way Back is a good movie that should have been a classic.- Posted Jan 21, 2011
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Kyle Smith 88
Bouncy vocal rearrangements of pop songs, sparkling choreography and a hilarious script make for a movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as "Heathers" and "Bring It On."- Posted Sep 28, 2012
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Kyle Smith 63
The film makes little sense (the couple refuses to ride subways, but Metro-North is OK), but it's a diverting conversation piece/freak show. -
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Kyle Smith 63
I won't reveal the twist -- but the marketing crew is aware that their only chance of selling this non-mind-blowing documentary about the people you might meet on Facebook is by promising a big surprise. -
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Kyle Smith 75
A scary, inventive, exciting and breathless adventure that combines the best elements of “Children of Men," “Escape from New York" and “The Road Warrior," but leaves out the worst stuff - such as the story-clogging despair and political allegory in “Children," a movie that made apocalypse look like kind of a downer. -
