
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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2 days ago |
newcriterion.com | Kyle Smith |Robert Erickson |James Bowman |Douglas Murray
T-shirts for sale in the lobby at Angry Alan, the new play by Penelope Skinner (at the Studio Seaview through August 3) are printed with the legend “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.” Experience suggested I turn around and leave immediately, but duty compelled me to stay. The slogan comes up during the play, which is a sort of stage equivalent of a feminist T-shirt.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Kyle Smith
Some of us feel alone in this world, but not necessarily in all worlds. Take “Elio,” a misfit pre-adolescent boy who lost his parents and is being raised by his aunt, a major in the Air Force who monitors space debris at a high-tech military base. Elio would like very much to be abducted by aliens and forget about everything that went wrong on this planet.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Kyle Smith
“28 Years Later” imagines a Britain that has become so overrun by a zombie virus that few who haven’t been infected are left. Not unreasonably, Europeans have strictly quarantined British islands to keep anyone from emigrating to spread the savagery-inducing disease to the continent. Welcome to the Hotel Britannia: You can freak out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Kyle Smith
Following 2002’s ‘28 Days Later’ and 2007’s ‘28 Weeks Later,’ the gore-soaked third installment of the franchise, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes, is short on wit and narrative coherence. “28 Years Later” imagines a Britain that has become so overrun by a zombie virus …
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Kyle Smith
Mr. Spielberg’s ingenious filmmaking is still a marvel; it was the first of what turned out to be the most lucrative string of mega-hits any director ever delivered, “1941” notwithstanding. And yet “Jaws” was a disaster production.
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