Kyle Smith

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New York Post, Wall Street Journal
For 1,927 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kyle Smith's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 52
Highest review score: 100 The Birth of a Nation
Lowest review score: 0 Victor Frankenstein
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 795 out of 1927
  2. Mixed: 411 out of 1927
  3. Negative: 721 out of 1927
1927 movie reviews
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    Quotable, controversial, anarchic, charismatic and handsome (in an ugly way), the zany avant-garde rocker Frank Zappa had everything one needs to be a star, except talent.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Kyle Smith
    Hidden Figures
    A triumphant and heartwarming film, not an angry and scolding one, that carefully maps how excellence and determination win over the doubters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    In mashing together story elements from Terrence Malick’s “Badlands” with the look of Malick’s “Days of Heaven,” Lowery put 90 percent of his energy into the atmosphere and 10 percent into the script.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Kyle Smith
    Into the Abyss
    Werner Herzog looks at the death penalty in Into the Abyss, and as is almost always the case, to look through his eyes is to marvel.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    Bridge to Terabithia
    Has buckets of gentle sincerity. Since there aren't any dumb jokes or hip visuals, it's easy to get caught up in the simple messages: Be good to your sister, don't be a bully, use your imagination in a pinch.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    Scrapper
    As directed with a wonderful combination of whimsy, deadpan humor and childlike exhilaration by Ms. Regan, the film is impish and full of bounce.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    A Most Violent Year
    A Most Violent Year is a small picture, but each brushstroke is laden with detail and craftsmanship.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    Suspended Time
    Mr. Assayas has crafted a beautiful and moving tableau of how one small group dealt with a bewildering change. The time when Covid-19 ruled our lives is one many of us might prefer to forget. May our most gifted artists resist that impulse.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Kyle Smith
    Joy Ride
    It isn’t until the last half hour that the film finally switches tones from aggressively and charmlessly filthy to thoughtful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    Kung Fu Panda
    Po speaks loudly and carries big shtick. Let the rest of the world cringe at our hyperconfidence, our charisma, our pure awesomeness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Kyle Smith
    Touch
    Touch is a worthy consideration of the things that matter most when the clock is running out, but it could have been more focused.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Kyle Smith
    Dream Scenario
    Dream Scenario is such an imaginatively offbeat movie that it’s a shame it isn’t better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Big Hero 6
    Big Hero 6 even has a title that sounds like a product ordered off the takeout menu of the type of restaurant that recombines a few elements in many ways. That could work fine, if any of the ingredients were particularly flavorful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Kyle Smith
    The Duchess of Langeais
    Jacques Rivette's film is full of painstaking historical detail, but the behavior of the two nonlovers is mired in inaction and emotionally incomprehensible.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    My Kid Could Paint That
    Struggles to maintain a sober, evenhanded tone about an utterly ridiculous story.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Kyle Smith
    Two Lovers
    The only possible interest the movie will inspire in anyone comes when Paltrow flashes a breast toward the end, far too late to pump any excitement into an aggressively boring film that gurgles with self-indulgence.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 12 Kyle Smith
    Neil Young Journeys
    The nicest thing I can think of to say about the doc Neil Young Journeys is that at least it isn't in 3-D.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Joe
    David Gordon Green’s Joe largely succeeds in immersing us in a rural world of cruelty, ugliness, decay, neglect and aggression, but if there is a point to it all, I couldn’t find it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
    German guilt gets a vigorous workout in the penetrating and symbolically important documentary Two or Three Things I Know About Him.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    The House of the Devil
    Although the payoff is creepy, it takes a little too long to arrive -- and when it does, it's about as worn-out as the movie's title.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    The Iron Claw
    The Iron Claw is either a cheesy professional-wrestling hold or the unbreakable grip of a hostile fate. Or perhaps it’s how a father clutches his children. Whatever it is, it’s a resonant image for a potent tearjerker.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Rust and Bone
    The visual effects are amazing, but they don't make up for acting that is restrained to an uninsightful fault.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    The Lobster
    Loaded with dazzling ideas that don’t ultimately pull together.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Kyle Smith
    Cheech and Chong's Last Movie
    The overall effect is appropriately trippy, and revealing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    She Will
    It’s stylish and chilling, with a lively feminist undercurrent.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 88 Kyle Smith
    The Iron Lady
    Sincerely directed by one woman (Phyllida Lloyd, who did "Mamma Mia!") and smartly written by another (Abi Morgan), the film stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep, whose ability to empathize with her characters has never been more gloriously impassioned than it is in this titanic performance.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Kyle Smith
    Inside Out 2
    Rejecting all Hollywood trends pointing the other way, Inside Out 2 goes for the penetrating over the shallow every time, never allowing the premise to devolve into a mere gimmick.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 25 Kyle Smith
    You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo
    This film is narratively inert (we spend a lot of time listening to the same questions being asked over and over) and, like virtually all docs in its genre, less than vigorous in its pursuit of truth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Kyle Smith
    The Fall Guy
    Mr. Pearce (“Iron Man 3,” “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation”) and his director have no idea what kind of picture they want to make. Instead they have four or five different concepts which they set loose like cars ramming into each other as they jostle for position.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    Creed III
    Creed III brings up unusually troubling questions for a formula picture, and the care the script takes to add depth to Donnie strengthens the final third of the film, which in accordance with the sports-drama rulebook leads us through a rousing training montage and a climactic competition, this time in Dodger Stadium.
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