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.
What is it with guys and “Fight Club”? Do you really need to ask, you mewling little sissy? It’s basically “The Brotherhood of the Traveling Fists,” “The Joy Luck Club” with testosterone instead of mah-jongg. Director...
November 17, 2009 12:53 AMBad is good. Quagmire is progress. And jobs destroyed are jobs “created or saved,” says the Obama administration. A political columnist points out that “one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is...
November 15, 2009 1:44 AM
"Pirate Radio" shines a light on a neglected little truth about rock music: Its true nature is less "Won't Get Fooled Again" or "Satisfaction" than "Yellow Submarine." All the bubble and bounce (and seaworthiness)...
November 13, 2009 12:00 AM
At last, conservatives have our Tina Fey. ABC's thrilling and politically potent new sci-fi series "V," whose second episode airs tonight at 8 on ABC, pits the paranoids against the Obamanoids -- and it's the...
November 10, 2009 12:00 AM
The world’s scariest accountant is back. Behold the teeth spaced like Stonehenge, the body bent into a permanent comma. This is not the umpteenth remake of “A Christmas Carol.” Umpteenth, we hit around the time Mr....
November 06, 2009 12:00 AM
Inspired by previous mustache movies, like Matt Damon in “The Informant!” and Andy Samberg in “Hot Rod,” George Clooney (and Kevin Spacey) gamble that you won’t be able to stop giggling at their precious little ’staches...
November 06, 2009 12:00 AM
How's this for a creepy coincidence: For the second time in a year, millions of Americans are going to be terrified by the sight of a pretty woman in Alaska. This time, though, it's totally different -- because we're...
November 06, 2009 12:00 AMWhen Owen Schmitt, fearsome fullback for the Seattle Seahawks, opened a game last month with a presentation of his manly bona fides that consisted of skull-bashing himself with his helmet until blood ran down his...
November 01, 2009 12:21 AM
ALL tats and tribes and artery-opening vengeance, the sequel to 1999's "The Boondock Saints" is a throwback picture that returns you to the late '90s, when every third filmmaker thought he was the next Quentin...
October 30, 2009 12:00 AM
'Cirque du Freak: Thec" calls to mind Grandpa taking out his dentures and trying to put on a comedy monster show for little kids at Halloween: When he tries to be scary, he's goofy, but when he tries to be goofy, he's...
October 23, 2009 12:00 AMRemember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people we should support reform of Social Security before it bankrupted the country? Neither do I. Yet when I tuned in to watch "Monday Night...
October 18, 2009 12:06 AM
At last, the missing link be tween "Phantom of the Opera" and "Saw." Welcome to the gonzo revenge saga "Law Abiding Citizen." As he did in the movie version of "Phantom," Gerard Butler once again gets his...
October 16, 2009 12:00 AMNew York City businesses that are stumbling through the recession are starting to feel like the screaming victims in horror movies (“The Devil’s Rejects” and others) who run away from the psychotic family of murderers...
October 11, 2009 1:11 AM
Youth speaks in hyperbole: “Best night of my life,” exclaims 16-year-old schoolgirl Jenny, after a night of music and cigarettes with a mysteriously alluring older man. But she isn’t exaggerating: It’s 1961 England, a...
October 09, 2009 1:49 AM
LOOK on the bright side of an America turned “Zombieland”: bothersome gun restrictions no longer applicable. No more reading your friends’ Facebook status updates. And whenever the post-apocalypse blues get you down,...
October 02, 2009 12:00 AMWho denies that Michael Moore is a communist? Not Michael Moore. I gave him the opportunity to stake out a position for himself as a non-extremist at Alice Tully Hall on Monday night. After a screening of...
September 27, 2009 12:22 AM
'COCO Before Chanel" begs to be compared to "La Vie en Rose," each being about a French ragamuffin who made it big after picking up a nickname in a saloon. But where the earlier film offered an immense lead performance...
September 25, 2009 12:00 AM
‘CAPITALISM: A Love Story” sounded like my kind of film. I had heard Michael Moore found some exciting new historical footage, and I was picturing hot, steamy love scenes featuring Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan...
September 23, 2009 1:01 AM
'LOVE Happens" is a weepie about the grieving process, mainly my own. Two hours of my life have been brutally stolen from me, and I need closure. So here goes. Aaron Eckhart plays one of those sleazy cliché...
September 18, 2009 12:00 AM
EVERYBODY put Patrick Swayze in the corner, at the intersection of bruiser and ballet dancer. Swayze, who died yesterday at 57 after a gruesome, 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer played out publicly in the...
September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
The severely nonthrilling thriller “Whiteout” moves like winter in Antarctica. Who the flake greenlit this blobby blur? Kate Beckinsale plays a US marshal who specializes in assignments that are deep in fluffy white...
September 11, 2009 12:00 AM
THE would-be noir "Beyond a Rea sonable Doubt" has an absurd story, but on the plus side you can hardly see what's going on because the photography is so murky. Michael Douglas plays an evil Shreveport DA whom a...
September 11, 2009 12:00 AMIf the Kennedy Era in American politics is over, instead of just taking a breather (Joseph P. Kennedy II has been mentioned as a possible candidate for his Uncle Ted's Senate seat), what did it mean? Character...
August 29, 2009 1:03 PMPATTON Oswalt gives a sharp performance as a doughy New York Giants fan in the black comedy "Big Fan." Paul (Oswalt), a k a "Paul from Staten Island," as he is known on sports talk radio, is a 36-year-old parking...
August 28, 2009 2:27 AMTHE fear runs strong around this Anna Wintour, with her fangy bangs that you could open an envelope on, her mirth-free smile, the Frisbee-sized shades that conceal her arctic skin crevasses but add to her polar...
August 27, 2009 2:59 AMEXCESSIVE niceness may be an unfair charge to lob at a movie, but "Post Grad" is so swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with...
August 21, 2009 12:22 AM
A "Twilight Zone" premise written like a Mariah Carey song, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is destined for a warm welcome on an obscure cable network. The Spinster Movie Station? The Lonely Hearts Channel? I say...
August 14, 2009 12:00 AMFormerly a real American hero, "G.I. Joe" is no longer a hero (it's a group) or American. (It's a multinational team of military superstars, though the way it does business, you'd feel safer with the Croatian navy...
August 07, 2009 8:27 AMHAD Peter Morgan, the author of the play and film "Frost/Nixon," not turned his attention to hyping the 1977 Watergate conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon, no major network would ever have had the...
August 03, 2009 2:11 AMWOE betide the comic who dares to turn from wiener jokes to intimations of mortality. Yet in going for a rethink of "All That Jazz" with comedy instead of Broadway, Judd Apatow's "Funny People" turns out to be one of...
July 31, 2009 1:02 AM
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