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Kyle Smith

Film Critic

United States

United States

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Publish Date: May 14, 2025
"A penchant for grandiosity over coherence defines “M:I 8.” Mr. Cruise should remember that his films work best when he’s more of a maverick than a messiah."

The Wall Street Journal
Henry Johnson (2025)
Publish Date: May 8, 2025
"The dynamics of the action are shaky, but even more so are the dynamics of character. In short, I’m not buying what Mamet’s hustlers are selling"

The Wall Street Journal
Rust (2025)
Publish Date: May 1, 2025
"The insight lacks freshness but makes for a reasonably compelling inspiration for [this] western"

The Wall Street Journal
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024)
Publish Date: April 24, 2025
"The director is working with the usual stuff of documentaries but has put a fresh and funky spin on these"

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A Working Man (2025)
Publish Date: March 26, 2025
"Watchable enough, with the occasional interjection of humor, but it’s a formulaic punch-’em-up that simply jams in as many fights as it can with little effort expended on plausibility"

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Novocaine (2025)
Publish Date: March 19, 2025
"The almost nonstop fighting and Mr. Quaid’s low-key charm are enough to make the movie a serviceable action offering. Moreover, the script, though focused on wacky spasms of violence, has a strong human element at its core."

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Black Bag (2025)
Publish Date: March 14, 2025
"Smart, fast-paced film (...) David Koepp has composed a swift and sinewy screenplay that is essentially a tight modern take on John le Carré’s world, minus the moral vacillation."

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My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)
Publish Date: February 27, 2025
"Most of this [film] is as lifeless as its central character, bedeviled by banal writing from start to finish"

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Ex-Husbands (2023)
Publish Date: February 21, 2025
"It doesn’t pretend to offer solutions to the various predicaments it considers. But Mr. Pritzker has a sagacious understanding of our various stumbles and humiliations"

The Wall Street Journal
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
Publish Date: January 30, 2025
"[It] is warm, endearing and very funny, a quintessential indie smile-maker about nice, humble people adorably stumbling their way toward a little happiness"

The Wall Street Journal
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024)
Publish Date: January 26, 2025
"[It] is, like its subject, disarmingly sweet and completely lovable"

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Night Call (2024)
Publish Date: January 15, 2025
"Belgian writer-director Michiel Blanchart’s debut feature is snappy and tart"

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Babygirl (2024)
Publish Date: December 24, 2024
"Reijn’s film is brilliantly evocative, exploring the shameful, shadowy parts of a complicated woman’s psyche, the ones she would never discuss and doesn’t fully understand herself"

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Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes (2024)
Publish Date: November 13, 2024
"[It] pleasingly reveals that the actor had both the dry wit and the soul of his most memorable characters"

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Heretic (2024)
Publish Date: November 10, 2024
"It is not only an expertly engineered work of suspense but also an ingeniously structured colloquy about the most deeply held belief systems"

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Porcelain War (2024)
Publish Date: November 6, 2024
"A combination of whimsy and devastation"

The Wall Street Journal
Here (2024)
Publish Date: November 4, 2024
"The inch-deep approach to history and social issues, the high-concept device, and the trite characters all seem better suited to a different type of movie—such as one of those gee-whiz featurettes shown at the EPCOT theme park"

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Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Publish Date: October 29, 2024
"The humility is central to the appeal of this deeply felt feature, easily one of the best films in a year that has been the cinematic analogue of Grace and Gilbert’s childhood"

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Oddity (2024)
Publish Date: October 23, 2024
"'Oddity' is everything a horror film should be—creepy, exciting, unpredictable—and it leads to an ending that’s both shocking and inevitable"

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The Brutalist (2024)
Publish Date: October 10, 2024
"Similar in tone to such Paul Thomas Anderson films as There Will Be Blood and The Master, Mr. Corbet’s often-staggering movie casts an unsentimental look at the price of greatness".

The Wall Street Journal

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