Stewart Smith
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Updated: May. 10, 2023 at 4:08 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Film critic Stewart Smith says this trilogy-capper is as funny as it is heartfelt.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2023 at 12:06 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a colorful, fun (albeit thin) romp for kids and Nintendo fans alike.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Reviewer Stewart Smith: "Director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves, however, have delivered a movie with such ferocious style and breathtaking intensity that I walked away wondering if I’d hallucinated half of it."
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has a real shot at being one of my favorite movies of the year.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 3:55 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
Creed III manages to rise above these shortcomings and cements itself as a terrific boxing movie in its own right and Johnson proves himself more than capable behind the camera.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 3:38 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
2022 turned out to be a banner year at the movies for KLTV film critic Stewart Smith. Here's his top 10 favorite movies from the year.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 4:24 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
When the credits finally rolled, I was left wishing he had simply made a couple of faux documentaries about Pandora narrated by Sigourney Weaver.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 10:04 AM CST
|By Stewart Smith
The Fabelmans is as heartfelt as anything Spielberg has ever made or likely ever will make.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 5:13 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
The Menu asks: “What if David Fincher, director of Fight Club and Gone Girl, directed his own version of Ratatouille?”
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 8:06 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
This is a deeply human, emotionally-driven film to a degree that you rarely get in blockbuster movie-making, and for that alone I’m grateful it exists as it does.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 3:53 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
East Texas Kitchen guest Stewart Smith shares the recipe for his mouth-watering fried chicken sandwich
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Black Adam has convinced me it’s time for Dwayne Johnson to resume calling himself The Rock.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 2:19 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
It’s taken more than 30 years, but we finally have a Predator sequel that feels worthy of standing next to the stone-cold classic that is the 1987 original.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 6:16 PM CDT
|By Blake Holland and Stewart Smith
The jury handed down the sentence after about 30 minutes of deliberation.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 4:12 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
The Black Phone is an immensely enjoyable crowd-pleaser of a supernatural horror movie.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 11:53 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
If I ever see a frame of Jurassic World: Dominion again it’ll be too soon.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
I can definitively say that while we did not in any way need a sequel to Top Gun, boy am I glad we got (this) one.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 7:28 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi has delivered a movie the likes of which I wasn’t sure I’d ever see within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a paean to one of cinema’s most misunderstood stars. It’s a veritable love letter to Nicolas Cage starring Nicolas Cage as Nick Cage.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 4:16 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
To our great benefit, however, Bay’s latest supercharged cinematic offering, Ambulance, is of a piece with the director’s absolute best.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 9:38 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith thinks Morbius is better left undead.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 12:49 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
The truest testament to the strengths of The Batman as a movie and piece of entertainment is the fact that I loved it in spite of itself.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2021 at 9:29 AM CST
|By Stewart Smith
For all of the fretting about the sustainability of The Theatrical Experience expressed throughout 2021 (and to be certain, the future of it all is no sure thing), this year was a surprisingly fantastic year for movies.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2021 at 2:50 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
The Matrix Resurrections almost feels like an impossible film: The work of a true auteur that delivers blockbuster thrills and a heartfelt romance but also mocks the very idea of its existence and serves as an act of meta-narrative commentary.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 3:01 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
KLTV's Stewart Smith says Spielberg's remake of the Broadway classic is one of the best movies of the year.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 2:56 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
Netflix’s latest original blockbuster offering, Red Notice, is the movie equivalent of a Canadian brand of grocery store items.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2021 at 11:53 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Dune is undoubtedly half a movie, but what a compelling, arresting half it is.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2021 at 9:20 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
No Time To Die is an excellent send-off for Daniel Craig’s tenure as the world’s most iconic superspy.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 10:05 PM CDT
|By Blake Holland, Stewart Smith and Christian Terry
The fifth day of the trial of a former East Texas nurse got underway Monday.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 9:33 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings more or less immediately became one of Stewart Smith's favorite movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 10:26 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
The face of the film may be a whole lot of juvenile material, but if you dig deep enough in this chum bucket of a movie you’ll find an actual beating heart.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 3:08 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Shelby County authorities say the woman they arrested for allegedly robbing a Dollar General store at gunpoint was caught after they saw her back at the scene of the crime later that night.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 9:22 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
KLTV's Stewart Smith was simultaneously enraptured and frustrated by David Lowery's adaptation of the Medieval-era poem.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
KLTV's Stewart Smith reviews the latest disappointing film from director M. Night Shyamalan.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2021 at 9:31 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, for the majority of its nearly two-hour runtime, is an often moving, warts-and-all portrait of a complex man who both was and was not the personality that millions watched travel the world.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2021 at 2:57 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith reviews the long-awaited solo movie about Scarlett Johansson's super spy Avenger.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2021 at 9:56 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
The ninth entry in the long-running "Fast & Furious" series is equal parts exciting and stupid
Updated: Jun. 23, 2021 at 11:09 PM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
KLTV's Stewart Smith reviews Luca, the latest film from Pixar.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 10:54 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
This adaptation of the hit Broadway play feels right at home on a movie screen.
Updated: May. 18, 2021 at 10:45 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
Director Zack Snyder's latest zombie flick finds the perfect balance of seriousness and absurdity.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2021 at 10:40 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
This latest movie version of the long-running video game series takes a lot of lumps but still offers up some ridiculous fun for fans of the material.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2021 at 10:28 AM CDT
|By Stewart Smith
What do you want out of a movie where a gigantic ape with a magic axe goes toe-to-toe with a nuclear-powered lizard? How you answer this question is the key to whether or not you will experience maximum enjoyment from a movie like Godzilla vs. Kong.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 at 11:53 AM CST
|By Stewart Smith
A federal judge in Tyler has ruled that Union Pacific Railroad is no longer bound by old contracts with the City of Palestine.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2021 at 4:53 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert is aware of the billboard demanding his resignation and has called it “an attack on elections from outsiders who don’t know East Texas.”
Updated: Feb. 2, 2021 at 11:24 AM CST
|By Stewart Smith
The Instant Millionaire scratch-off game lived up to its name for a Hemphill resident.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 3:30 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
Two East Texas men charged for participation in the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol Building will be extradited to Washington, D.C.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2021 at 4:46 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
If you’re looking for a sign that Sen. Ted Cruz or U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert should resign from office, you may have seen it on Loop 323 in Tyler.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 9:04 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
A federal judge has ruled against the release of two East Texas men accused of taking part in the Capitol siege as they await trial.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2021 at 5:51 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
Management at the Tyler Morning Telegraph say they’ve identified how an Associated Press photo caption was inaccurately altered and promise tighter publishing processes.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 5:50 PM CST
|By Stewart Smith
Jason Brightwell allegedly led officers on a high speed chase in a stolen vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
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