WALK THIS WAY Kyle Smith review of WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY 95 minutes/R (nudity, sexual content, profanity, drug abuse) Hey, bay-buh! There’s a whole lot of funny goin’...
WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Dear Family Member, Loved One, Guy I Talk to About Sports Occasionally, Spouse, or Fat Jolly Old Elf: Okay. Here’s what I actually want for Christmas. Someone to select,...
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Kyle Smith review of “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” 117 minutes/R (extreme graphic violence) Tell me, is it good? Sir, it’s too good,...
What’s worth seeing this season? Roughly in order of preference, with links to my reviews: MUST SEE: 1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. (Sorry, haven’t written up a review yet. It’s...
Kyle Smith review of “There Will Be Blood” 160 minutes/R (graphic violence, profanity) “There Will Be Blood” seems inspired by a macabre joke. Suppose Capitalism...
A piece in the New York Times the other day apparently mentioned my column on “Charlie Wilson’s War,” a $75 million curiosity which Tom Hanks says could well do “absolutely nothing”...
NATIONAL CALAMITY Kyle Smith review of NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS 124 minutes/PG (mild action violence) This is Nicolas CAGE. Remember when I used to make quiet movies for smart people? Things...
My Sunday column: BUTT OF JOKES December 23, 2007 — Thank you all for coming. As you all know, we’re here today to talk about my alleged use of banned comedy-enhancing substances. I’m...
Review: “The Bucket List” 3.5 stars out of 4 TWO GOOD MEN December 25, 2007 — ‘THE Bucket List” is about vomiting blood, skull surgery, night chills, chemotherapy and catheters,...
In today’s Post, my expert colleague Lou “the Encyclopedia” Lumenick and I jawbone over the year’s ten best movies. (I can’t explain the strangely mangled editing on the...
NOWHERE MAN’S MIND GAMES 1.5 stars out of 4 114 minutes. Not rated (profanity, violence) Mark David Chapman’s chilling diary entries and transcripts of his conversations form the basis of...
At the New York Film Critics Circle Awards tonight at Spotlight in Times Square, the well-preserved cougar Ellen Barkin was in the elevator heading down to dinner from the cocktail party in the penthouse...
My esteemed colleague Lou Lumenick runs down the list of Oscar contenders on his blog, going with a roundup of choices that have been popping up frequently on critics’ lists and award winners. I’m...
EDGE OF BRILLIANCE 3.5 stars out of 4 Rated G/85 minutes Kyle Smith review of “U2 3D” I can’t believe the news today: U2 has reinvented the concert film with the dazzling “U2...
In an whiny interview with Men’s Vogue (that begins with the remarkably awful lead, “the luck of the Irish has not always helped Edward Burns,” who by the way is American, not Irish),...
SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this posting if you haven’t seen “Sweeney Todd.” The new ad campaign for Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd,” which is doing less than great...
GODZILCHA Kyle Smith review of “Cloverfield” 84 minutes/PG-13 “Cloverfield” combines unpleasantness and stupidity to a degree that would be difficult to match unless you were...
Sylvester Stallone has gotten a bad rap ever since “Rocky II” (which thrilled my 13-year-old soul and which for a time I insisted was better than the original), but if you listen to what the...
EURIPIDES ON THE THAMES Kyle Smith review of “Cassandra’s Dream” 3.5 stars out of 4 105 minutes/PG- 13 Nobu, Jaguar, Claridge’s, the Connaught. The characters in “Cassandra’s...
DON’T TAKE THE MONEY, JUST RUN Kyle Smith review of “Mad Money” 1 star out of 4 104 minutes/Rated PG-13 And the cinematic comeback of the year award goes to . . . someone other than...
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