LYRICAL Kyle Smith review of “ONCE” Running time: 88 minutes/ R (profanity). What “Rent” should have been, “Once” is: a Bohemian rhapsody. A Dublin street musician...
Variety picks over the bloody carcass of the Tom Cruise-Robert Redford-Meryl Streep improvised exploding device “Lions for Lambs,” which self-detonated upon release and is on track to earn...
My Sunday column: KABUL’D TOGETHER At last, Hollywood has (sort of) made a pro-CIA, pro-war, anti-Soviet movie: “Charlie Wilson’s War.” It’s all about how Democrats defeated...
And in the running for the title of violentest film of the year: “Saw IV,” “Hostel: Part II”–and “Sweeney Todd.” “It is a horror movie,” says...
As soon as I have a chance to sort and mull–which did I like better, “28 Weeks Later” or “The Bucket List”? I’ll post my top 25 movies of the year. Hint: “Once”...
Will Smith’s sci-fi flick “I Am Legend,” the “Omega Man” and “Last Man on Earth” retread that will likely rule the holiday box office, is a rare Hollywood...
INTERIOR DECORATION Kyle Smith review of “Atonement” “Atonement” belongs in a theater–“Masterpiece Theater.” At the outset of this beautifully designed, ornate,...
Those of you puzzling over how George Clooney could win an award of any kind for showing up and looking handsome in the mediocre legal thriller “Michael Clayton”–in a year that featured...
Chronicles of Yawnia. Kyle Smith review of “The Golden Compass” 114 minutes. Rated PG-13 (action violence) 1.5 stars out of 4 Five minutes before “The Golden Compass” started,...
“Spider-Man 3” has sold only 5 million DVDs; just a couple of years ago big blockbusters like it were expected to sell 20 million units. Could it be that Hollywood is releasing too damn much...
Kyle Smith review of “GRACE IS GONE” 85 minutes. Rated PG-13 (adult themes, profanity, teen smoking) 2 stars out of 4 Does John Cusack understand the difference between “Republican”...
AFGHANISHTAR! Kyle Smith review of “Charlie Wilson’s War” 97 minutes/R (profanity, nudity, sexual content, drug use) I somewhat enjoyed “Charlie Wilson’s War,”...
Allow me to be the first to call the Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig fantasy mess “The Golden Compass” a flop. It opened with $8.8 million last night, less than “Beowulf” managed its...
My Sunday column: DISAPPEARING KNIGHTLEY Dear Keira : Welcome back. Most of us haven’t seen you since “Pirates of the Incomprehensible Plot Developments 3: The Curse of the Rushed Script,”...
MTV/Viacom have decided to premiere “Jackass 2.5” for free on the Web, says the Wall Street Journal. You’ll have to go to the Blockbuster Web site to get the 64-minute film on Dec. 19;...
I don’t quite understand my esteemed colleague Richard Corliss’s argument, here at Time.com, that there is anything particularly worrisome about the habit of critics’ groups to...
The Post is scheduled to publish on Dec. 30 a rundown of the top ten films of the year according to me and my two colleagues, V.A. Musetto and Lou Lumenick. But narrowing down the list to even...
I AM BLOCKBUSTER Kyle Smith review of “I Am Legend” 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (scary images and violence) 3 stars out of 4 Manhattan, five years from now. The island is overrun by hordes...
Kyle Smith review of “YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH” Film without sense. 126 minutes. Rated R (sexuality, nudity, disturbing image) 2 stars out of 4 I understood two words of “Youth Without Youth”:...
Eleven months after its debut at Sundance wowed the audience, won the film a special prize, started spurious “Oscar buzz” for John Cusack and inspired a bidding frenzy won by the Weinsteins...
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