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KyleSmithOnline.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kyle Smith.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/4
A Serious Man (2009) Kyle Smith You're unlikely to react with much more than a shrug.
Posted Nov 15, 2009  Edit critic review
3/4
Crank: High Voltage (2009) Kyle Smith See this f%$&*ing movie, mate.
Posted Sep 11, 2009  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Star Trek (2009) Kyle Smith Barely competent. J.J. Abrams has a TV soul.
Posted May 10, 2009  Edit critic review
2/4
The Soloist (2009) Kyle Smith A neat summation of how liberal thinking boils down to one symbol -- a soiled, tattered American flag, emblem of our supposed national shame -- and one phrase: 'Force him.'
Posted May 05, 2009  Edit critic review
4/4
Irreconcilable Differences (1984) Kyle Smith There is a marvelous balance in that we have an equal rooting interest in each of the main characters. It isn't a mere satire.
Posted Apr 29, 2009  Edit critic review
3/4
Observe and Report (2009) Kyle Smith Reminded me of the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino.
Posted Apr 22, 2009  Edit critic review
3/4
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) Kyle Smith I was hoping Monsters Vs. Aliens would turn out to be a documentary about the Trial Lawyers Association against the Taliban. Maybe both sides would get wiped out?
Posted Mar 31, 2009  Edit critic review
3/4
The International (2009) Kyle Smith The whole point of a nefarious institution is that it doesn't have to get its hands dirty. Who needs assassins when you have lobbyists?
Posted Feb 18, 2009  Edit critic review
1/4
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Kyle Smith Seven smiles on the poster of a movie about rejection? Why not make an airy romantic comedy called You've Got Melanoma?
Posted Feb 11, 2009  Edit critic review
4/4
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Kyle Smith A new American classic.
Posted Dec 29, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Frost/Nixon (2008) Kyle Smith A better title might have been, 'I interviewed an ex-president for 29 hours and all I got was two lousy sound bites.' Still, an incisive character study.
Posted Dec 19, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Bolt (2008) Kyle Smith Essential to the proceedings is a fired-up hamster who believes the dog is the superhero he plays on 'the magic box' and is itching to help him: 'Ring, ring! Who is it? Destiny? I've been expecting your call.'
Posted Dec 19, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Role Models (2008) Kyle Smith Good fun for males in the mental age bracket of 14-22, which is most males.
Posted Nov 02, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Changeling (2008) Kyle Smith Could have been made in 1938 with Bette Davis.
Posted Oct 26, 2008  Edit critic review
0.5/4
W. (2008) Kyle Smith Hee-Haw meets Dr. Strangelove.
Posted Oct 18, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Body of Lies (2008) Kyle Smith Gets across a palpable sense of Iraq fatigue. Which is another way of saying it invites the audience to see the talking-Chihuahua picture instead.
Posted Oct 12, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Appaloosa (2008) Kyle Smith When you're lookin for an Olde Time, pistol-wieldin', rootin', tootin' varmint, hire somebody other than Jeremy Irons. What is this--Bonanza Revisited?
Posted Sep 15, 2008  Edit critic review
1/4
The Rocker (2008) Kyle Smith Memo to Rainn Wilson: A shot of a paunchy middle-aged man in jockey shorts is not automatically funny. Okay, it kind of is. But The Rocker is as formulaic as a Whitesnake song without the virtue of a four-minute running time.
Posted Aug 22, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) Kyle Smith What's Lucas's next big idea for brand extension--Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Darth?
Posted Aug 16, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Tropic Thunder (2008) Kyle Smith Half showbiz satire, half action movie, half broad comedy and all Tom Cruise.
Posted Aug 15, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Swing Vote (2008) Kyle Smith A usually reliable indicator of a bad movie is this: It contains the credit 'Larry King as himself.'
Posted Aug 03, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Mamma Mia! (2008) Kyle Smith Terrible jokes in a movie that is nonetheless hilarious. You will laugh at, not with, Mamma Mia.
Posted Jul 22, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) Kyle Smith Aggressively bland, a display of X-treme mildness, a cinematic saltine.
Posted Jul 14, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Hancock (2008) Kyle Smith His symbol is the eagle. He beats up on little Frenchmen. He is 'the only one of my kind,' the world's lone and lonely superpower. Hancock is a clever metaphor for America in the world.
Posted Jul 03, 2008  Edit critic review
1/4
Get Smart (2008) Kyle Smith The Aughties equivalent of the Dan Aykroyd/Tom Hanks stab at Dragnet.
Posted Jul 03, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
WALL-E (2008) Kyle Smith Too Gloom-E.
Posted Jul 03, 2008  Edit critic review
4/4
Man on Wire (2008) Kyle Smith A giddy dream, a suspenser, a harrowing surreal comedy of the possible--like Dog Day Afternoon told by Amelie.
Posted Jul 02, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Juno (2007) Kyle Smith Being the hipster movie of the year presents a couple of problems. One is that hipsters are kind of annoying.
Posted Jun 29, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Iron Man (2008) Kyle Smith Visual sizzle, top actors and a witty script, yet it could have been so much better if only it didn't try to cobble together a pacifist warrior.
Posted Jun 22, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Incredible Hulk (2008) Kyle Smith Iron Man is easily superior to The Incredible Hulk. Tony Stark's wit, his flair, the way everything comes easily to him and he makes the ladies purr, are all the opposite of what Bruce Banner brings to the party.
Posted Jun 22, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Kyle Smith Packed with fights and chases--but then so were the old Tom and Jerry cartoons. The worst Steven Spielberg popcorn flick since 1941.
Posted Jun 21, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008) Kyle Smith If "Munich" is the disease, the Zohan is the cure. Some hard little grains of truth make this Sandler's funniest movie since "The Waterboy."
Posted Jun 20, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Sex and the City (2008) Kyle Smith To its credit, though, the movie turns Carrie's value system, which equates "the two Ls--Labels and Love," to its advantage, and in the second half the movie achieves a nice balance between comedy and drama.
Posted Jun 20, 2008  Edit critic review
0.5/4
What Happens in Vegas (2008) Kyle Smith Should have stayed, not in Vegas, but elsewhere in the state of Nevada. How about those mountains where they are supposed to store the radioactive waste?
Posted May 29, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) Kyle Smith There's a reason why Foreign Affairs has never done a theme issue about "Dude, Where's My Car?"
Posted Apr 27, 2008  Edit critic review
1/4
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (2008) Kyle Smith Not just childish, smug and unfunny but a hideous affront to the 9/11 families, to whom Spurlock owes an abject apology.
Posted Apr 19, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Leatherheads (2008) Kyle Smith Like going to a football game and watching the players bring desks and paperwork onto the field. How boring is this movie? I've been more entertained by halftime shows.
Posted Apr 06, 2008  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Kyle Smith Writing and starring in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel gets emotionally naked. He bares his soul. Also, he lets us see his schlong. As Steve Martin said, comedy is not pretty.
Posted Mar 27, 2008  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Funny Games (2007) Kyle Smith Rivals and probably tops the Ellen Page internet-predator film Hard Candy in disgusting, vile, vicious, incandescently brutal wickedness. So why did I love this evil film?
Posted Mar 04, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Kyle Smith Set your bosoms to heave and prepare to have your bodices ripped: "The Other Boleyn Girl" is in the house with a pair of 16th century foxes.
Posted Mar 01, 2008  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Jumper (2008) Kyle Smith A movie about wormholes made from a script riddled with more holes than Hillary Clinton's campaign strategy.
Posted Feb 11, 2008  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Definitely, Maybe (2008) Kyle Smith This movie sparkles like diamonds.
Posted Feb 08, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
In Bruges (2008) Kyle Smith A cold little jolt of cruelty, which is more than most crime thrillers can offer.
Posted Feb 04, 2008  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Fool's Gold (2008) Kyle Smith Ought to come with a warning sign posted in the lobby: no shirt, no shoes, no laughs.
Posted Feb 04, 2008  Edit critic review
3.5/4
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Kyle Smith Excruciating, ugly and very, very foreign. Sounds like the ideal candidate for the Palme D'Or.
Posted Jan 27, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Cloverfield (2008) Kyle Smith A combination of unpleasantness and stupidity that would be difficult to match, unless you were stuck in bed with the shingles while being forced to watch The Ghost Whisperer.
Posted Jan 18, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Kyle Smith Call it Afghanishtar. So strange that Democrats are shown killing Commies--not calling for sanctions against them or filing motions in the U.N.
Posted Dec 08, 2007  Edit critic review
3.5/4
There Will Be Blood (2007) Kyle Smith A macabre joke: suppose Capitalism and Evangelism climbed down an inky black hole together? Which one would emerge?
Posted Dec 06, 2007  Edit critic review
3/4
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Kyle Smith Hey, bay-buh! There's a whole lot of funny goin' on in Walk Hard. It's got sex and drugs and Elvis and giraffes and Members Only jackets.
Posted Dec 05, 2007  Edit critic review
3/4
Atonement (2007) Kyle Smith Belongs to the realm of theater--"Masterpiece Theater." A misdirected-letter movie? Really? In 2007?
Posted Dec 03, 2007  Edit critic review
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