Kyle Smith
Film Critic at The Wall Street Journal
Theater Critic at The New Criterion
Film critic for @wsj and theater critic for @NewCriterion.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Kyle Smith
The director’s thematic and aesthetic obsessions remain intact in his new film, starring Benicio del Toro as a rogue businessman and estranged parent and featuring Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston and many others. Aside from Sofia Coppola and her princesses in gilded cages, Wes Anderson might be the filmmaker who is most obsessively focused on a single theme.
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wsj.com | Kyle Smith
Recorded at New York’s Beacon Theatre, this concert film turns the U2 singer’s stage show into something more overblown and less potent. Among the many qualities of U2’s brilliant lead singer Bono, humility is perhaps not the first that comes to mind. Subtlety and understatement are also not central to his persona; one wonders whether he could even say “Pass the iced tea” without making it sound like an urgent plea for worldwide justice.
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flipboard.com | Kyle Smith
Netflix’s new crime thriller show should be your next binge-watch — and it’ll have you hooked from episode oneIt’s been a while since a thriller grabbed me this fast, but Netflix’s “Dept. Q” had me hooked before the first episode even finished. I sat down …
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wsj.com | Kyle Smith
Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio return for the sixth feature of the series, a familiar mix of training montages and contrived drama capped by a climactic bout. The Karate Kid franchise was born in 1984 with a shamelessly formulaic underdog movie, was refreshed with a 2018-25 TV series, “Cobra Kai,” which gave the story an amusing tweak (the reformation of a bad guy) and moves back to basics with a sixth feature, “Karate Kid: Legends,” a reunion of new and old.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kyle Smith
The 2002 animated comedy about a mother and daughter and the cuddly alien who crash-lands in their midst gets shamelessly recycled in a live-action film directed by Dean Fleischer Camp. Few performers have chewed the scenery as literally or as delightfully as Stitch, the intergalactic hobgoblin whose omni-destructive chaos made 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch” one of Disney Animation’s most effective comedies. Still, the franchise seems relatively short in the tooth to be bringing it back for a remake.
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