Our own Mr. Big–he’s rich! He’s single! Too bad you can’t wear heels around him!–apparently has a walk-on part in the “Sex and the City”...
After an uncharacteristic mid-year losing streak with films like “Sunshine” and “Joshua,” Fox Searchlight is finding its groove again. I’ve just seen “The Savages,”...
122 minutes/R (graphic violence, profanity) A kind of dust bowl “Pulp Fiction,” “No Country for Old Men” is bloody, suspenseful, unnerving and, not incidentally, hilarious....
Kyle Smith Review of “Fred Claus” 115 minutes. Rated PG (mild crude humor) 0.5 stars out of 4 “Fred Claus” is not like a lump of coal in your stocking. Coal is useful; you can...
“Shrek the Third” comes out on DVD today. Here’s my original review. Kyle Smith Review of “Shrek the Third” 90 minutes/PG (mild crude humor) The big new addition in “Shrek...
Kyle Smith review of “Margot at the Wedding” 91 minutes/Rated R (sexual content and profanity) The main characters have names like Margot and Pauline and even Claude. They are writers and...
An engaging, witty and self-deprecating Tim Burton was a hit before an adoring audience at the Time Warner Center last night, where he reflected on his films and introduced three clips from the...
Kyle Smith review of “Redacted” 3 stars out of 4 90 minutes. Rated R (extreme graphic violence, rape, profanity) You don’t go to Brian De Palma for fair and balanced. You go to him...
[note: This is a rerun of my comments on “Juno” for new readers]: I don’t think any film this year left me as ambivalent as “Juno,” the kind of film that wins the Best Original...
Apparently The Post isn’t running my review of “I’m Not There” until Thursday, and they’ll have to trim my comments for space. This movie’s opening showings have...
IT MISSED Kyle Smith review of “The Mist” 126 minutes/Rated R (profanity, graphic violence) I’m scared of a lot of things. Cancer, al Qaeda, chemical-plant eruptions, careening wrong-way...
I just saw the Mike Nichols-directed “Charlie Wilson’s War,” starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. It has a few things going for it, such as a typically clever script by Aaron...
Friday brings us “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” a beautiful, majestic, profound work of art based on the memoir by an Elle magazine editor who, after a stroke, was unable...
My colleague and Sunday editor Stephen Lynch riffs amusingly on Jimmy, Robert and the rest in his Led Zeppelin essay “The Song Remains the Same.” No doubt “Stairway to Heaven”...
Kyle Smith review of “HITMAN” stillBourne 100 minutes/Rated R (violence, nudity, profanity) 0.5 stars out of 4 There’s a nip in the November air, but “Hitman” brings back...
Warner Bros. informs me that Christopher Nolan is coming to New York on Dec. 3 to screen the first scene of “The Dark Knight,” which tops my list of most-anticipated movies of 2008. Normally...
In a Wall Street Journal profile, the author of “Atonement” hints that the movie doesn’t live up to the book. McEwan describes the film as “visually splendid,” “well-cast...
Roger Simon has an interesting post that points out a big difference between anti-Vietnam movies and anti-Iraq war movies; this time around, no reasonable person can possibly want the other side to win. This...
Haters, commenters, emailers: please polish your invective and sharpen your barbs. The brightest insult I’ve seen lately was a cliche: “Get cancer.” “Your an idiot”...
Perhaps not since Hannibal Lecter went up against Max Cady for 1991’s Best Actor has so much blood been spilled by the leading contenders. Let’s try to break it down on a scale of one to...
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