RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Critics / Kyle Smith
No picture available

    KYLE SMITH

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

    Publications: KyleSmithOnline.com, Movie Insider, New York Post

    Total Reviews: 818

    LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

    • All
    • Movies
    • DVDs
    • Best
    • Worst
    • Other
    • Unquoted
    # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
    Results for All Genres
    Showing 1 - 50 of 818
    Previous | Next
    Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date (default)

    Fresh
    2/4

    Fresh
    61%

    Surveillance (2009)

    " Ether a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 26, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    95%

    The Hurt Locker (2009)

    " Despite its pumped-up admiration for our troops and some scenes that spurt adrenaline like a fire hose, this sort-of-thriller about a bomb squad working in 2004 is stretched both timewise and for plausibility." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 26, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    79%

    $9.99 (2009)

    " Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    17%

    Year One (2009)

    " Year One is nowhere near as funny as the ancient-civilization movies I saw in high school: Life of Brian, History of the World Part I, Caligula. Its script isn't worth the papyrus it's inscribed on." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    81%

    Sex Positive (2009)

    " For gays who remember the nightmare, Sex Positive may be too depressing to watch. But the movie strikes a cautionary tone for a younger generation that, it says, isn't taking the HIV threat seriously." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Fresh
    97%

    Food, Inc. (2009)

    " Trading on now-familiar gross-out tactics (images of corporate slaughterhouses and chicken sheds), the movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    88%

    Moon (2009)

    " Though we love pretentious grand sci-fi, this film feels kind of thin, just a corporate scandal-philosoph'cal show." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    43%

    Imagine That (2009)

    " Cutesy? My pain was acutesy as the entire plot yawned before me." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    60%

    Tetro (2009)

    " Tetro, the second in Coppola's new line of low-budget art films (following last year's headache factory Youth Without Youth), is hard to take seriously." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 11, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    66%

    Away We Go (2009)

    " Director Sam Mendes fails to make them as beautifully fragile as he wants to." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    19%

    Downloading Nancy (2008)

    " Some suspense arises about just how far the woman's sickness will take her, but it's overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the story." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    78%

    The Hangover (2009)

    " Memento meets Old School? It's party time." — New York Post

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    93%

    Drag Me To Hell (2009)

    " Drag Me to Hell is pure cheese. Goat cheese." — New York Post

    Posted May 29, 2009

    Rotten
    0/4

    Rotten
    27%

    Dance Flick (2009)

    " If there exists anyone in the comedy business less funny than the Wayans clan, it's Amy Sedaris, so she's here, too." — New York Post

    Posted May 26, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    58%

    The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

    " Like a stag movie as conceived by the editors of the Financial Times." — New York Post

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Fresh
    67%

    New World Order (2009)

    " Instead of digging up and making sense of true information, it tracks half a dozen boring conspiracy theorists spouting balderdash and makes no effort to check out their cuckoo claims." — New York Post

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    32%

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    " It's got all the heart of a demolition derby." — New York Post

    Posted May 20, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    47%

    Management (2009)

    " The film is a failure if it can't convince us that these two people belong together. It can't, and barely tries." — New York Post

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    93%

    Summer Hours (2009)

    " Even for a French drama, Summer Hours is so slow as to be practically still." — New York Post

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    37%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " Angels & Demons has some exciting sequences, a spectacular ending with a terrific twist and a grounding in the debate about science versus religion that could hardly be more timely." — New York Post

    Posted May 15, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    95%

    Star Trek (2009)

    " Barely competent. J.J. Abrams has a TV soul." — KyleSmithOnline.com

    Posted May 10, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    61%

    Brothers at War (2009)

    " Brothers at War would be interesting enough if it merely observed soldiers in their element as they chill behind friendly lines, but this documentary, which begins at a low key, gradually becomes intense and psychologically complicated." — New York Post

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Fresh
    78%

    The Garden (2009)

    " The Garden is an especially fatuous documentary, nominated for an Oscar this year, about a community garden in South Central LA where Latino farmers have been allowed to grow food on somebody else's land." — New York Post

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Fresh
    68%

    Julia (2009)

    " Picture Fargo played with no sense of comedy, and you'll get some idea of the absurdity of this drunken floozy, clicking and wobbling on high heels, often with bits of her anatomy hanging out, trying to pull off the perfect crime." — New York Post

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    18%

    Next Day Air (2009)

    " Far from the worst of Taran tino knockoffs, Next Day Air takes the standard formula of dimwits chasing bags of drugs to the 'hood." — New York Post

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    55%

    The Soloist (2009)

    " A neat summation of how liberal thinking boils down to one symbol -- a soiled, tattered American flag, emblem of our supposed national shame -- and one phrase: 'Force him.'" — KyleSmithOnline.com

    Posted May 5, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    46%

    Battle for Terra (2009)

    " Aggressively ugly and intergalactically boring, the dismal sci-fi kiddie cartoon Battle for Terra is too weak to be shown anywhere except maybe on the next flight to Saturn." — New York Post

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    40%

    A Wink and a Smile (2009)

    " The movie is an excruciating documentary about ordinary women taking a burlesque class in Seattle." — New York Post

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Fresh
    67%

    The Merry Gentleman (2009)

    " The potential for suspense is dropped in favor of lots of hushed interludes in which nothing happens." — New York Post

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Fresh
    4/4

    Rotten
    58%

    Irreconcilable Differences (1984)

    " There is a marvelous balance in that we have an equal rooting interest in each of the main characters. It isn't a mere satire." — KyleSmithOnline.com

    Posted Apr 29, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    41%

    Fighting (2009)

    " Fighting arrives fully charged by the charisma of its star, Channing Tatum." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 24, 2009

    Rotten
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    67%

    Nursery University (2009)

    " It's difficult to get too worked up as they fret about their Jacksons and Julianas in dining rooms big enough to land a helicopter in. Nor is the film helpful as an insider's guide." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 24, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    86%

    Tyson (2009)

    " Mike Tyson is a damaged man but a man nonetheless. Dismissing him as an animal, a habit he sometimes falls into himself, is an error. His mind is far from empty, although it's a lonely, haunted place, and Tyson is a howl of humanity." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 24, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    51%

    Observe and Report (2009)

    " Reminded me of the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino." — KyleSmithOnline.com

    Posted Apr 22, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Fresh
    92%

    Every Little Step (2009)

    " Every Little Step shows only this: It hurts to flunk an audition, and it's nice to get hired. Everything it has to say about Broadway was said better in Bob Fosse's movie All That Jazz -- in its opening five minutes." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 17, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Fresh
    71%

    American Violet (2009)

    " Its blaring earnestness and thin characters (all of whom practically wear badges identifying them as good or evil) fail to add nuance to a story that keeps making the same point in virtually every predictable scene." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 17, 2009

    Rotten

    Fresh
    85%

    State of Play (2009)

    " State of Play is bordered by the states of absurdity and cliché." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 17, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Fresh
    77%

    In a Dream (2009)

    " The tedious documentary In a Dream tells you much more than you could ever want to know about an ob scure Philadelphia artist called Isaiah Zagar." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 10, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    46%

    Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)

    " Thin as a flip-flop and as complicated as a scrunchy, the plot is barely enough for half a movie. At the 45-minute point, things are pretty much wrapped up." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 10, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Rotten
    55%

    Lymelife (2009)

    " Martini brews a hazy feeling out of memory and time, a sense of relief and regret in the knowledge that nothing so exotic as ordinary suburban puberty can ever happen to you again." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 10, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Rotten
    38%

    Gigantic (2008)

    " Quirk fans, prepare to be lightly exhilarated." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 3, 2009

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    88%

    Adventureland (2009)

    " Adventureland isn't as clever as Kicking, and not nearly as hilarious as Superbad, but it's still a sweet little memory ache, a Proustian cookie co-flavored with semiotics and Whitesnake." — New York Post

    Posted Apr 3, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    72%

    Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

    " I was hoping Monsters Vs. Aliens would turn out to be a documentary about the Trial Lawyers Association against the Taliban. Maybe both sides would get wiped out?" — KyleSmithOnline.com

    Posted Mar 31, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    17%

    Spinning into Butter (2009)

    " The material is crying out for a satiric wit or at least a stronger point of view. Instead, it's a mishmash in which everyone gets to say his piece, but all of it has been said before." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    50%

    The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)

    " The Education of Charlie Banks wants to be The Great Gatsby of college movies. It falls a tad short." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    18%

    The Cross (2009)

    " The documentary The Cross is not going to displace The Ten Commandments as the official movie of the Easter season." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    18%

    The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

    " Connecticut: not very haunty." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 27, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    90%

    Hunger (2008)

    " Regardless of politics, one must grant McQueen's substantial gifts, which bring to mind Paul Greengrass in another Northern Ireland film, Bloody Sunday." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 20, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    33%

    The Edge of Love (2009)

    " The movie makes for an engaging enough period piece." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 20, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    32%

    Knowing (2009)

    " The movie begins shameless, grows stupid and winds up silly. If the ending had less of the air of a crackpot religion and more pretentiousness, you could almost call it Shyamalanish." — New York Post

    Posted Mar 20, 2009
    Results for All Genres
    Showing 1 - 50 of 818
    Previous | Next
     
     
    • Sort by Rating:

      Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)

    • Sort by T-meter:

      Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)

     
     

    Best to Worst Sampling

    Best to Worst Sampling

    4/4

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Offsite

    3.5/4

    Ghost Town

    Offsite

    3/4

    Death Race

    Offsite

    2.5/4

    Tropic Thunder

    Offsite

    2/4

    The Clone Wars

    Offsite

    1.5/4

    My Mexican Shivah

    Offsite

    1/4

    The Rocker

    Offsite

    0.5/4

    Hamlet 2

    Offsite

    .5/4

    Taken

    Offsite

    0/4

    Dance Flick

    Offsite

    Best Reviewed

    Best Reviewed

    4/4

    Irreconcilable Differences

    Offsite

    4/4

    Watchmen

    Offsite

    4/4

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Offsite

    4/4

    Man On Wire

    Offsite

    4/4

    Margot at the Wedding

    Offsite

    4/4

    Into the Wild

    Offsite

    4/4

    No Country for Old Men

    Offsite

    4/4

    Superbad

    Offsite

    4/4

    Hairspray

    Offsite

    4/4

    Ratatouille

    Offsite

    More…

    Worst Reviewed

    Worst Reviewed

    0/4

    Dance Flick

    Offsite

    0/4

    Illegal Tender

    Offsite

    0/4

    September Dawn

    Offsite

    0/4

    The Salon

    Offsite

    0/4

    Constellation

    Offsite

    0/4

    From Other Worlds

    Offsite

    0/4

    Conversations with God

    Offsite

    0/4

    Tideland

    Offsite

    0/4

    Strangers With Candy

    Offsite

    0/4

    Date Movie

    Offsite

    More…

    Sponsored Links

     
     
    About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
    IGN Logo

    IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
    TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
    AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


    By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
    Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
    IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
    Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.