Kyle Smith has been a film critic for the Post since 2005. He also contributes book reviews and columns on current affairs to the Sunday Post and is the author of the novels "Love Monkey," which was adapated into a CBS TV series, and "A Christmas Caroline." He is a graduate of Yale University.
And you thought “Sex and the City 2” was girly! Superspy Evelyn Salt, a sort of Jasmine Bourne who studies the art of napkin folding, risks her life running away from the CIA so she can share her anniversary with her...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AMIllustrating the many ways nuclear weapons could kill you makes "Countdown to Zero" one of the most frightening documentaries you'll ever see, or endure. Writer-director Lucy Walker doesn't uncover anything new,...
July 23, 2010 12:00 AM
This is the real “Law & Order,” as it works in the capital of the world in the 21st century. In the city of New York, the people are divided into two separate yet completely unequal groups: the citizens, who are...
July 18, 2010 1:14 AMA politically themed comedy- killathon, "Operation: Endgame" might be the first satiric thriller to play off President Obama's inauguration. During the ceremonies, two opposed teams of ruthless US government...
July 16, 2010 4:10 AM
The title character in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is played by Jay Baruchel, and here things begin to go seriously astray. They don’t ever stop. To say Baruchel is unready to be a leading man in a big-budget action...
July 14, 2010 1:29 AM
This week Timothy Geithner got his Tea Party on. But he forgot to invite the president. Geithner did everything but put on a Paul Revere costume and wave a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag when he declared, “This president...
July 11, 2010 1:14 AM
Real-life grade-school Ricky Bobbys — they wanna go fast — are the winsome stars of the documentary “Racing Dreams,” which is to speed demons what the spelling-bee doc “Spellbound” was to word mavens. The film follows...
July 09, 2010 2:00 PM
"Despicable Me” may not be the most sophisticated kids movie ever, but it stacks up against recent animated fare like “How To Train Your Dragon” the way The New York Review of Books compares to USA Today. “The...
July 09, 2010 12:24 AM
How remote is Sweden? Judging from "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and its predecessor chick revenge fantasy "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," it's so far off the map that no one there has heard of Austin Powers....
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
Who is the summer’s hottest American matinee idol? Robert Pattinson? Taylor Lautner? Or is it Chris Christie? OK, one of them is mainly the crush of fiscal conservatives. But it’s a breathless, paste-his-picture-in...
July 04, 2010 12:53 AM
Previously, “Twilight” was my one-word rebuttal to those who claim I have the best job in the world. But the relatively streamlined “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” dispenses with much of the caramel gooeyness of the first...
June 30, 2010 1:45 AMYou know something is changing in American mores when the supposed leader of the culture wars from the right, Sarah Palin, declares that smoking pot is “a minimal problem” and that “if somebody’s gonna smoke a joint in...
June 27, 2010 12:26 AMPutting a human face on global warming, "Beautiful Islands" is a handsome-looking, if narratively inert, piece of propaganda filmmaking. This Japanese documentary joins images, unaccompanied by narration or music,...
June 25, 2010 4:27 AM
When "Grown Ups" star and co-writer Adam Sandler repeatedly slapped Rob Schneider in the face with a dehydrated banana, I was jealous of Schneider, who suffered less than I did getting slapped upside the head by this...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AM"South of the Border," down demagogue way, filmmaker Oliver Stone traveled to get warm and fuzzy with such leftist sweethearts as Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Raul Castro (Cuba) and Evo Morales (Bolivia). The verdict?...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AM
We learned again in the president’s speech on the BP disaster this week that all of our interests in the energy sphere are aligned: Move from carbon-based fuel to renewables and we’ll create American jobs, heal the...
June 20, 2010 1:18 AMLow-key and ruefully well-observed, France's "Let It Rain" is nevertheless too slight to make much impact. The writer-director Agnes Jaoui stars as a feminist writer turned politician who returns to her hometown in the...
June 18, 2010 12:48 AMTilda Swinton stars as the Russian wife of an Italian industrialist whose family teeters on the precipice of big changes in the drama "I Am Love." Amid a lushly realized family gathering, a family patriarch announces...
June 18, 2010 12:44 AM
Jonah Hex is one rugged slice of hombre served up extra-ornery. Among the several reasons why he's miffed as he wanders a cursed landscape in the post-Civil War South: Jonah (Josh Brolin) was forced to kill his...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
A popcorn picture that thinks it’s “The Last Emperor,” “The Karate Kid” is about as likely to grab your youngster’s attention as any other propaganda film made by the Chinese government. The remake of the 1984 movie is...
June 11, 2010 12:10 AMThe Sundance award-winning "Winter's Bone" is one of those local-color indies. Spoiler alert: The only colors offered are exhaust-pipe gray and roadkill brown. We're in the Missouri Ozarks, where the line between...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AMAs portrayed by Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen, "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" weren't exactly Rhett & Scarlett. The couturier -- severe, shoulder blades that could open an envelope, brow bisected by a crease...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
Thanks in large part to a deadly debacle at sea, things are getting shockingly tense between the US and a critical ally. Israel? Yes. But also Britain. President Obama’s drill-sergeant policy toward BP — yell more,...
June 06, 2010 12:39 AM
A question once posed by rockers applies to the rock comedy “Get Him to the Greek.” “Who are you? Who who, who, who?” Mostly, this frantic film is yet another attempt at “Spinal Tap” silly. At times it goes for the...
June 04, 2010 12:33 AMFor the audience that believes "Hamlet" could use a few more vampires and a subplot about the Holy Grail, the slapdash comedy "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead" could be a tonic. An unemployed theater...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AMJust because you collect hundreds of hours of moving images doesn't mean you have a film. The fact is abundantly proven by "Convention," a documentary that covers the 2008 Democratic National Convention without ever...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Like "Sex and the City 2," "Marmaduke" features well-coifed bitches in heat, nonstop puns and its very own Mr. Big. Unlike "SATC 2," this one is harmless and, on occasion, mildly witty. Owen Wilson voices the title...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
The shabbiest, smirkiest, most unbearable moment of "Sex and the City 2" arrives when the girls sing "I Am Woman" on a karaoke stage in Abu Dhabi - a country still run under Islamic Sharia law that officially subjugates...
May 30, 2010 12:36 AMA rambling slap-up of images, "Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies" provides a cinematic equivalent of what one critic famously called a cubist painting by Marcel Duchamp: an "explosion in a shingle factory."...
May 28, 2010 12:37 AMWhen George A. Romero turned 70 this past winter, I hope at least one friend approached to say: "Dude, seriously. Enough with the zombies." Yet here comes "Survival of the Dead," the sixth in the "Dead" saga that ran...
May 28, 2010 12:00 AM
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