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.
The Justice Department is suing Arizona over its immigration law. Twenty-one states are suing the federal government over the new health care law’s requirement that individuals buy health insurance. Two states have...
September 05, 2010 12:29 AM
Phil Collins put the case succinctly: It’s no fun being an illegal alien. Except if you’re “Machete,” an ex-Mexican federal agent disguised as a Texas landscaper with a bloody mission to mow down Minuteman types with...
September 03, 2010 12:26 AM
It's hard to imagine anyone but a critic sitting twice through "The American," a pretentious Euro-snore that should occasion a fraud prosecution for any marketer who calls it a thriller -- and which stars an actor who...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM
You may have heard about the unstoppable gusher of odious gunk that struck this summer. No, not that one. The one that spewed from the nation’s tiniest menace, the 11-year-old film critic calling himself “Lights Camera...
August 29, 2010 1:43 AMLeft and right can agree on something: America is freakin’ doomed. Our military-political empire is crumbling, the Union is falling apart, America’s wealthy period is a fading memory (duh) and our political spatting is...
August 29, 2010 12:51 AM
"The Last Exorcism" takes place down in rural Louisiana, where Satan meets slackjaws. Get ready for "Deliverance" from evil. Or maybe the demons will make you squeal like a pig. A sinister backwoods yokel named...
August 27, 2010 12:00 AM
The Romans hit Britannia and Britannia hits back in "Centurion," a film that begs to be classified in the historical/epic category, or maybe the allegorical/self-important file, but actually belongs in the lawnmower...
August 27, 2010 12:00 AMMeet John Cusack 2.0. In "Calvin Marshall," a kind of mashup of "Bull Durham" and NBC's "Community," young actor Alex Frost channels the 1980s, likable-loser version of Cusack. Frost plays a cheerful would-be jock whose...
August 20, 2010 9:52 AM
'The Tillman Story" pur ports to be an exposé of the cover-up of the death by friendly fire of the Army Ranger and one time NFL star Pat Tillman. But, provocative and colorful as the film is, it does the very thing it...
August 20, 2010 12:00 AMThere's a one-in-a-billion story to "Lottery Ticket": Those are the approximate odds against a script this bad making it out of the introductory seminar at film school. Bow Wow (no longer Lil, except in acting...
August 20, 2010 12:00 AM
"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" is a big warm cinematic jelly doughnut stuffed with youth, vitality, style, whimsy and other equally alarming properties. I tried to love it. But after 20 minutes, I sensed I was intruding...
August 13, 2010 12:00 AM
This was the rumor last week. It sounds laughable. I don’t want to believe it. The Treasury Department denied it. But when it comes to the Magic Kingdom that is the Obama administration, the fantastical has a way of...
August 08, 2010 1:01 AM
Wall Streeters are a bunch of overpaid ripoff artists, says the guy who earned $20 million or so for “Land of the Lost.” “The Other Guys” starts out as a hilarious take on cop-movie cliches, then turns into Will...
August 06, 2010 1:29 AM
The Upper East Side. Spring break. Preppies. Charlie is on drugs. He is sad. Hunter is on drugs. He is sad. Jessica is on drugs. She is sad. White Mike doesn't do drugs but sells them to all of the above. He's extra...
August 06, 2010 12:00 AM
The upcoming "Saw 3D" looked like the scariest tri-dimensional offering at the movies this year. Until now. The third and weakest entry in the Disney dance saga, "Step Up 3D" is strictly 1D. Tired choreography...
August 06, 2010 12:00 AM
A poster placed on a Midtown Duane Reade by a friendly city employee begins, “Does someone you love: “—Humiliate, criticize or yell at you? “—Hurt you, or threaten to hurt you? “—Control your money?” After a...
August 01, 2010 12:19 AMWhat's the matter with "What's the Matter With Kansas?"? It's conde scending, it's vague, it's unfair and, ultimately, it's pointless. The documentary, composed of interviews with Kansans and images of them praying...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM'The Concert" is an art-house trap, the cinematic equivalent of one of those salads that turns out to have more calories than a Big Mac. And for the same reason: gobs of thick, sweet dressing. The movie is a broad...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
Darlings, there's nothing quite so tragique as a boring eccentric. So might any of the capering clowns who populate "The Extra Man" describe this plotless, laughless, zero-impact comedy about contemporary Manhattan...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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 AM
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