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Kyle Smith

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Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “The biggest mystery involved in “Mercy” is not who killed Mrs. Raven but why a star with Mr. Pratt’s everyman charisma keeps choosing such mediocre projects. ” – Wall Street Journal Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 91% EDIT “One of those old-fashioned feature cartoons that seems aimed at pleasing half-asleep old people rather than lively youngsters.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 95% EDIT “The film is, in a sense, a necrology that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering. Its effects are woozily disorienting, as though we’re all just ghosts drifting through spaces occupied by much more lasting things such as houses.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 17, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “Quirky touches, dry wit and first-rate characterizations make “The Bone Temple” a rare treat and one of the finest zombie movies I’ve seen, not to mention a major improvement from last summer’s third entry in the series.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Like many shallow effects-driven blockbusters, the supposedly deep “Young Mothers” has nothing to say. Does it have any reason to exist other than to serve up poverty porn?” – Wall Street Journal Jan 9, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% EDIT “The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology -- dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh -- is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”” – Wall Street Journal Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Certain to be rated the greatest 2.5-hour ping-pong movie ever, Marty Supreme takes a tired formula only to pull it apart and reassemble it with wicked intent, like a psychotic toddler experimenting on his sister’s hapless doll. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Those who dread being knocked over the head with a political message can rest easy; it’s an amusing caper, not a stern lecture.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “Jack Black and Paul Rudd are nearly always enjoyable, even when working with less-than-scintillating material, and each has a boyish streak that’s exactly the right register for this exercise in silliness.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% EDIT “Despite dealing with an oratorio, “The Choral” is more of a medley, briefly touching on one theme after another, but never convincingly. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 24, 2025 Full Review David (2025) 76% EDIT “David may be a towering figure of biblical lore, but this telling of a chapter of his story is not merely animated, it’s cartoonish.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The digital delights of “Fire and Ash” are simply unsupported by any dramatic foundation; the script is so ludicrously weak that you might as well try to balance a rocket ship on top of a styrofoam cup. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “Diabolically entertaining. Based on the novel by the pseudonymous Freida McFadden, “The Housemaid” is a delightful hall of mirrors in which reality turns out to be subject to infinite modification. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT ““Ella McCay” is not quotable. It is not believable. It is not likable. It’s not even digestible. For an ordinary filmmaker, it would be merely a disaster. For James L. Brooks, it’s more like a tragedy.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 71% EDIT “Hosoda can hardly be blamed for failing to answer these questions, but he can be blamed for pointlessly bringing them up in the first place. The many self-interrogating interludes are intended to add depth but serve only to create a drag on the action.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “Alone among the major studios, the Mouse House is invested in an ongoing project to, as they say on campus, interrogate, subvert and effectively make amends for its own past stories. That impulse can be tiresome, and in “Zootopia 2” it is. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “The story begs for an elegant solution. The one presented is about as elegant as a demolition derby conducted at a landfill.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT “Mr. Sorrentino is only in his 50s (and Mr. Servillo, in his 60s, is younger than the man he portrays), yet he has made a film about seniority that captures its subject so sensitively that it is, in an unassuming way, glorious. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) 100% EDIT “If it’s an extravagant demand of time it’s an even more extravagant pleasure, the rare film worth a trip out to the cinema for full immersion.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “That Wicked: For Good falls short of greatness doesn’t mean it’s bad. There’s plenty of cause to rejoicify, notably the visual splendor, the charming central friendship and some pretty songs, notably “For Good."” – Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “It’s a strange idea for a movie that, while lacking such structural niceties as an obvious goal to be met, proves an oddly touching experience, somber yet slightly absurd.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong. Or at least for somebody to seem a little bit endangered once in a while.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “All in good fun for a B-movie, and “P: B” does not pretend to be anything else.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “Though Mr. Michôd doesn’t do much to make the routine aspects of the film better than or even different from its many forebears, Christy’s grit and determination make her a singular figure in those final scenes.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 6, 2025 Full Review
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