For 996 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kyle Smith's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 48
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
996 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 64
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Wanted is like a 12-armed heavy-metal drummer after a case of Red Bull, flailing and thundering through two hours of impossible action.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Kyle Smith 75
    An affecting and beautifully realized documentary.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Your enjoyment will hinge entirely on whether you think the album is a masterpiece or a bore.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Revenge is a dish best served with bullets, high explosives and giant rolling flameballs. In Quantum of Solace, James Bond orders the revenge buffet, deluxe.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Maher's sense of humor deserts him in the end, though, when in an apocalyptic montage of fire and hate (bin Laden, Pat Robertson), he suggests all religions are equally bent on destruction of the Earth. It's fatuous to suggest that the Iraq war was launched because of religion or that belief in the Book of Revelation is the same as organizing terrorist attacks.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Statham is an essential tough guy, what the Brits call "well'ard," as self-assured as Lee Marvin.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Kyle Smith 75
    The oddly compelling documentary Moving Midway is an engineering tale combined with a family history and a ghost story.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Sex Drive has shaky moments, and its smutty gags aren't edited so much as slammed together.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Kyle Smith 75
    A sharp comedy as well as a punk-pulp spree. Don't go if you can't handle Brit slang. ("Grass" = informer.)
    • Metascore: 56
    • Kyle Smith 75
    The funniest movie of Smith's I've seen. It's "When Harry Did Sally."
    • Metascore: 53
    • Kyle Smith 75
    More like Disney's "Sleeping Beauty," somber, slow and elegant instead of frantic and dazzling.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Kyle Smith 75
    A taut suspense flick for grown-ups.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Kids will be as enthralled by this film as you were by the live-action Disney movies of the '70s. It doesn't get any sweeter than a roomful of mattresses with kids and dogs jumping on them.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Much closer to Scorsese than "Scarface," Notorious gives a heartfelt yet clear-eyed sendoff to the late Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Kyle Smith 75
    A warning: One scene in the middle is almost outrageously cruel and graphic. If you're the type of person who has to be reminded, "It's only a movie," stay away. This is the most depraved and dreadful piece of screen horror since last year's "Funny Games."
    • Metascore: 81
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Wajda, who lost his father in the purge, gives the film an awful silence and mystery at its core.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Earth, you had me at baby polar bears.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Fighting arrives fully charged by the charisma of its star, Channing Tatum, who has landed the lead in the upcoming "G.I. Joe."
    • Metascore: 83
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Gives a taste of what it might be like to live inside Mike Tyson's mind.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Isn't especially hilarious, but it has a warm sense of humor instead of a string of gross-out jokes. It'll be a cable mainstay.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Like its star, the movie is too short and a little thin but just about perfect.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Beaded with amusing moments.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Kyle Smith 75
    It is said that everyone either loved or hated radical defense lawyer William Kunstler. A documentary by his daughters asks, "Why choose 'or' instead of 'both'?"
    • Metascore: 39
    • Kyle Smith 75
    A roaring old-school action adventure for kids, with as many mythical beasts as a year at Hogwarts and a healthy dose of smiting without the crazed bloodlust of “300.”
    • Metascore: 33
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Nutty? Maybe. But a pungent blast of the cinema du bonkers is just what this summer's multiplexes need after weeks of bromide-stuffed retreads that are as smug about their lack of originality as packs of teen girls who dress exactly alike. Mock Jonah Hex if you must, but you can't say you've seen a lot of other supernatural Westerns lately.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Kyle Smith 75
    Dispenses with much of the caramel gooeyness of the first two episodes in favor of decent action, some heartfelt tender moments and even a splash of wit. This time they’re actually Twi-ing.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Kyle Smith 75
    The movie is an entertaining stroll through a colorful gallery of characters including, in villain mode, former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving. "She knows nothing. I am an expert," huffs Hoving, who is so nasty he might as well be wearing a monocle - making Horton that much more fun to root for.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Kyle Smith 75
    German guilt gets a vigorous workout in the penetrating and symbolically important documentary Two or Three Things I Know About Him.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Kyle Smith 75
    The film, made by two Cuban-American exiles (and produced by their friend, Charlize Theron), makes an ironic point about Cuba: This is a land where the grandparents are revolutionaries (or at least say they are) but the kids are yearning for capitalist globalization.