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KYLE SMITH Movie Reviews

690 reviews, averaging 48.2% positive
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The Unborn

New York Post
01/09/09 Good (Not Great) "I enjoyed the visual effects used to create some hellish creatures and the amusing nods to 'The Exorcist'... But the movie slips in the last act."
2.

Not Easily Broken

New York Post
01/09/09 Weak "Someone says, 'Do not make me go Oprah on you. Because I will,' as if the entire movie isn't up to its chin in Oprah-ism."
3. 01/16/09 Good (Not Great) "The physical comedy isn't bad, but it's a little ragged, as is the movie's habit of busting out an '80s monster rock ballad whenever it's stuck."
4.

Notorious

New York Post
01/16/09 Very Good "...gives a heartfelt yet clear-eyed sendoff to the late Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace... discovers in Biggie a soul to match his 300-pound body."
5.

Hotel for Dogs

New York Post
01/17/09 Very Good "Kids will be as enthralled by this film as you were by the live-action Disney movies of the '70s.... Adults (except dog haters) will be amused, as well."
6.

Inkheart

New York Post
01/23/09 Weak "Flying monkeys, a minotaur and the gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge drop in and out like union workers who punch their time cards and then quit for the day."
7.

Luck By Chance

New York Post
01/30/09 Moderate "The behind-the-scenes look at the world's largest film industry is gently humorous but almost totally lacking in the cynicism, self-hatred and ennui that characterizes inside-Hollywood flicks."
8.

Taken

New York Post
01/30/09 Poor "...so lacking in ambition they should have called it 'Paycheck'... producer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel are as convincing as Marcel Marceau doing John Wayne."
9.

The Uninvited

New York Post
01/30/09 Moderate "...a big finish doesn't always make up for everything that came before... Until then, it's basically 80 minutes of things jumping out and making loud noises."
10.

Push

New York Post
02/06/09 Poor "There is also a group of villains whose superpower is to holler loud enough to shatter glass and generally ruin everything. Maybe they should be called 'critics'?"
11.

Pink Panther 2

New York Post
02/06/09 Weak "The movie hopes to be regarded as childlike too, but there's a difference between kid-friendly and just regular old dumb."
12.

Two Lovers

New York Post
02/13/09 Weak "The movie limps along meaninglessly as Phoenix does his hangdog act and a deglamorized Paltrow frets about her busted relationship with a married man."
13. 02/13/09 Weak "Let me save you $12: A guy who is playing with a hockey stick in the toolshed asks Jason, 'Are you looking for this? Because it, uh, completes your outfit.' "
14. 02/13/09 Poor "Fisher looks adorable but otherwise wastes the considerable talents she showed in 'Wedding Crashers.' If there's a wall or a waiter, her orders are to crash into it."
15. 02/20/09 Very Good "...grueling to sit through. Yet the greasy, guilty thrill of being privy to your neighbors' most intimate dramas makes it impossible to stop watching."
16.

Katyn

New York Post
02/20/09 Very Good "Wajda, who lost his father in the purge, gives the film an awful silence and mystery at its core.... a clear-eyed and unsentimental work about memory and forgetting."
17.

An American Affair

New York Post
02/27/09 Moderate "Even Oliver Stone would giggle at the notion that the CIA couldn't reach JFK through any means except via one of his blond playmates."
18. 02/27/09 Moderate "...gets one star for the admirable brevity of its running time and another for the definite article in its title, seemingly an implicit promise that there will be no sequel."
19.

Watchmen

New York Post
03/04/09 Outstanding "...as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as '2001' must have seemed in 1968, yet in its eagerness to argue with itself, it resembles 'A Clockwork Orange.' "
20. 03/13/09 Poor "...bears all the signs of having been composed by an inferior race of alien screenwriters from the Hackulon System..."

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