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KYLE SMITH Movie Reviews

690 reviews, averaging 48.2% positive
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The Way, Way Back

New York Post
01/25/13 Outstanding "...hilarious, emotionally satisfying... sweet without being syrupy, it's commercial without being a sell-out, and its dialogue sparkles from beginning to end."
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56 Up

New York Post
01/04/13 Outstanding "...as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries... you may get to know these people better than anyone you know."
3.

War Horse

New York Post
12/23/11 Outstanding "...a gorgeous, majestic fable about a boy who yearns to be reunited with his steed.... Those who say they don't make 'em like they used to must now fall silent."
4.

Project Nim

New York Post
07/08/11 Outstanding "Brilliant, provocative, clear of eye and heavy of heart... about nature versus nurture, arrogance and, more broadly, the mythmaking that beclouds the progressive mindset."
5.

Another Year

New York Post
12/29/10 Outstanding "...few documentaries could hope to catch their subjects so off-guard, or to chance upon completely believable dialogue with such haunting echoes."
6.

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.' "
7.

Breathe In

New York Post
01/20/13 Outstanding "...quiet, gentle but deeply felt.... If Drake Doremus is going to keep making lovely little movies about exquisite heartache, I'll happily keep watching."
8.

Pain & Gain

New York Post
04/26/13 Outstanding "...fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic.... Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus have turned in a crackling, pointed, dense screenplay..."
9.

Trance (2013)

New York Post
04/05/13 Outstanding "...a nonstop visual, aural and intellectual delight, steeped in movie conventions and yet fizzing with freshness. It's what happens when film noir goes out to a rave."
10. 03/29/13 Outstanding "Cianfrance, like P.T. Anderson, makes the camera roam and soar... a film of a master craftsman, a director who can imbue the ordinary with poetry."
11.

Renoir

New York Post
03/29/13 Outstanding "Without showing any war images, this is a quietly profound statement about the folly of WWI and France's place in it."
12.

FrackNation

New York Post
01/11/13 Outstanding "Phelim McAleer, who in 'FrackNation' gleefully shreds assertions made in the anti-fracking documentary 'Gasland,' should be content to have struck a blow for truth."
13.

Beware of Mr. Baker

New York Post
11/30/12 Outstanding "...fantastically entertaining.... If Ginger Baker was not the greatest drummer of all time he was -- is! -- a magnificent wreck. This, boys and girls, is rock."
14. 09/28/12 Outstanding "...a movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as 'Heathers' and 'Bring It On.' "
15. 08/31/12 Outstanding "The seriousness, depth and degree of difficulty here are extraordinary, and yet Brügger is primarily a comedian with an eye for the ridiculous."
16.

Ted (2012)

New York Post
06/29/12 Outstanding "...it's got ideas spilling out of its seams. It's a smoothly designed rom-com, in addition to being a parody of same, and for a while it's even bizarrely effective as a thriller."
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Prometheus (2012)

New York Post
06/08/12 Outstanding "...intense and engulfing... ponders where evil comes from and how it conquers its makers.... wickedly entertaining, scary, sinister and thought-provoking."
18.

Monsieur Lazhar

New York Post
04/13/12 Outstanding "...beautifully restrained... the story works in its themes so quietly and artfully that a hug registers as a genuinely defiant gesture."
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21 Jump Street

New York Post
03/16/12 Outstanding "...the funniest movie I've seen in more than a year."
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The Iron Lady

New York Post
12/30/11 Outstanding "...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."

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