Kyle Smith

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New York Post, Wall Street Journal
For 1,913 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 13.9 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: 789 out of 1913
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 1913
  3. Negative: 717 out of 1913
1913 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Kyle Smith
    Air
    It plays like pure television by an Aaron Sorkin disciple, and there is no reason whatsoever to see this on the big screen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    Sunset Song
    Davies’ quiet, painterly film largely eschews musical cues that would heighten its emotional impact, but as it is, Sunset Song is captivating in its sincerity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Beyond the Lights
    The teary-eyed sincerity of the music-industry drama Beyond the Lights is at times too much, but despite its cliche elements, the film at least has the feel of a passion project.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 12 Kyle Smith
    Cook County
    Depravity and addiction can be dramatic and fascinating, or they can be as they are in this week's indie filthathon Cook County.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Kyle Smith
    Calle Málaga
    Approaching the glum realities of aging with an often deft and even lightly comical tone, the Spanish-language film Calle Málaga is a pleasing character study of an elderly lady who is more resourceful than she appears.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Kyle Smith
    Flyboys
    The computer-generated flying effects are the only reason to see the movie, but at some point somebody left the computer on too long, so it went ahead and spat out the script.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    What Happens Later
    It’s a pleasure to report that the 100-minute conversation is as wonderful as the actors who deliver it—by turns witty, wistful and revealing, steeped in an appreciation for the hard learning that comes with age.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Hoppers
    Pixar, which is notable for its emotionally rich soul and its irresistible fancy, this time comes up with almost none of the former and very little of the latter.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Kyle Smith
    American Sniper
    The moral alertness of the film is of the level normally confined, in military pictures, to talky courtroom scenes, yet Eastwood skillfully works dilemmas into propulsive and suspenseful action.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    The Best Offer
    An intriguingly Hitchcockian premise gradually takes on a preposterous air in the art-world noir The Best Offer.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    Zombieland
    Zombieland is still the funniest broad comedy since "The Hangover." Its yowling, marching, munching corpses are as scary as grad students and as hilarious as the plot of "G.I. Joe."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    Declaration of War
    France's Declaration of War has it all: comedy, romance, fantasy, musical interludes and a child with a brain tumor. Wait - what?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    Prince Avalanche
    An uneasy mix of Richard Linklater and Abbott and Costello, Prince Avalanche is an oddment, but one that brings some small, peculiar pleasures.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Kyle Smith
    Enter the Dangerous Mind
    A searing, penetrating look inside schizophrenia is exactly what Enter the Dangerous Mind isn’t.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 25 Kyle Smith
    Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    Imagine “Moby-Dick” rewritten in crayon, and you’ll get the idea.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    Live From New York!
    Don’t expect the real dirt on “Saturday Night Live” from the doc Live From New York! The movie is fun, but it’s a cinematic coffee-table book.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Kyle Smith
    Jay Kelly
    Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s funniest and finest movie in many years is perfection all the way through: the perfect casting choice, the perfect balance of comedy and pathos, the perfect wacky route to the perfect ending.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Kyle Smith
    The Killer
    I dearly wished someone from Wick-land would emerge to take out this self-aggrandizing dunce.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    Folktales
    There is a lot of untapped potential here, and a reality-TV series covering the same subject would be welcome. Nevertheless, inspiring true stories about youth are a little too scarce these days, and “Folktales” is not only magical and warm, it’s also a bracing interlude of good cheer.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Results
    The movie can be mildly amusing. But I couldn’t figure out which of the three principals I least wanted to know.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    Ferrari
    It’s as effective as one of the fabled machines it celebrates.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    The Lookout
    Combines the sweet strangeness of "Fargo" with the existential panic of "Memento" and some Elmore Leonard tough talk. It all creates a cinematic tummy ache.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Kyle Smith
    The Hangover
    Raunchy frat comedies are as hard to pull off as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and The Hangover does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Kyle Smith
    Rage
    There’s nothing wrong with being a brainless B-movie, but this one is funless and lackluster, a grinding mess of pulp clichés with dull characters, perfunctory violence and dim plotting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    The Club
    The Club offers plenty of stifling, agonized atmosphere, but it’s all penitence and no redemption.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Seventh-graders are far cooler and more anarchic than depicted in this often-dopey movie, which is aimed at more of a fourth-grade sensibility.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Kyle Smith
    Liberal Arts
    Liberal Arts comes to us produced by Josh Radnor. Written by Josh Radnor. Starring Josh Radnor. Josh Radnor is much like Woody Allen, except for the talent.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Kyle Smith
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    It may be impossible to make an uninteresting documentary about Hunter S. Thompson, but is it unfair to ask Gonzo for more Hunter and less Jimmy Carter?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Kyle Smith
    The Adults
    It’s difficult to watch but beguilingly genuine in its exploration of the tortured dynamics of three adult siblings whose mother died five years earlier and who haven’t been together in three years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Kyle Smith
    Bros
    A case can be made that it’s gutsy and honest for Mr. Apatow, Mr. Stoller and Mr. Eichner to place such an obnoxious (and recognizable) figure as Bobby at the center of a rom-com, but as we saw in “The King of Staten Island,” comedies about jerks work only if they’re funny, and Bros isn’t.
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