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Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Publications:
Houston Chronicle , San Francisco Chronicle , San Francisco Free Press
Critics' Group:
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
2168

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 25% This Means War (2012) " Reese Witherspoon isn't an idiot, and yet she made "This Means War," which leads to the question: Was this some temporary lapse in judgment or was this the best offer she had?" — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 16, 2012
0/4 24% What's Your Number? (2011) " He is borderline evil, and she is a completely helpless, flailing fool, and there's no reason to think they would stay together for a month." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 29, 2011
0/4 90% Attack the Block (2011) " It's surprising this thing ever got released." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 28, 2011
0/4 42% Faster (2010) " The Rock didn't start calling himself by his actual name, Dwayne Johnson, so he could make garbage like "Faster."" — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 23, 2010
0/4 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " A dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written and thoroughly unappealing fantasy, featuring bland characters locked in a struggle of no interest." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 1, 2010
0/4 12% Love Ranch (2010) " Love Ranch is less than two hours long, but it feels longer. Much longer -- as in long enough for the Rostovs to marry off Natasha and for Napoleon to retreat from Moscow." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 1, 2010
0/4 37% Gigantic (2009) " Anyone can go off and just cynically make a bad movie, but to make a picture as inert, incompetent and emotionally fraudulent as Gigantic takes sincere faith that one is, in fact, making something really, really good." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 10, 2009
0/4 49% La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) (2007) " Aside from being vile and repellent, it's mainly dull -- old-fashioned in its shock tactics and culminating in a ho-hum climax." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 18, 2008
0/4 16% Untraceable (2008) " As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 25, 2008
0/4 7% License to Wed (2007) " There's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 3, 2007
0/4 11% Pathfinder (2007) " No more than a minute into this, and it becomes obvious that the next 98 are going to be trouble." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 13, 2007
0/4 2% Epic Movie (2007) " Satire points up and emphasizes truths that have gone unnoticed, punctures pretension and tweaks the self-important. Audiences laugh at the unexpected revelation of truth. Epic Movie does none of that." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 30, 2007
0/4 22% The Pink Panther (2006) " If The Pink Panther has any value at all, it's in the way its failure demonstrates the delicate nature of comedy, and the skill of other comedies by contrast." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 10, 2006
0/4 13% The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) " In stiff competition for the lamest thing ever put on celluloid." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 5, 2005
0/4 58% Last Days (2005) " Seamlessly and rather cleverly, without telling anybody, Gus Van Sant has transitioned out of important filmmaking and has taken up a new career in torture." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 22, 2005
0/4 5% Harry + Max (Harry and Max) (2005) " Seems like the work of a novice, with self-conscious expository passages and emotionally false conversations." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 29, 2005
0/4 —— Junked (2005) " Almost unwatchable." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 18, 2004
0/4 76% Team America - World Police (2004) " As puppetry, Team America is stilted. As satire, it's gutless and lazy. And as comedy, it barely delivers laughs." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 15, 2004
0/4 22% AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) " Take a wretched premise. Imagine the worst picture that could be made from it. Then imagine something even worse." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 16, 2004
0/4 23% Van Helsing (2004) " A big, loud, boring wreck." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted May 7, 2004
0/4 22% Nine Dead Gay Guys (9 Dead Gay Guys) (2002) " If garbage could think, it would look down on 9 Dead Gay Guys as garbage." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 9, 2004
0/4 9% Marci X (2003) " Marci X plays like a satire made by people who don't know the worlds they're satirizing." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 25, 2003
0/4 7% Gigli (2003) " The most thoroughly joyless and inept film of the year, and one of the worst of the decade." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 1, 2003
0/4 28% It Runs in the Family (2003) " Achingly long and pointless, Runs is a movie about family that's dishonest in its presentation of every relationship." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 25, 2003
0/4 60% Gerry (2003) " Ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 28, 2003
0/4 66% Shanghai Knights (2003) " A desperately unfunny action comedy, mirthless not only in its effect on an audience but in its whole aura." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 7, 2003
0/4 11% National Security (2003) " Combines a sour story with a repellent lead character, deadly comic schtick and tin-eared direction to produce 90 minutes of sheer, plodding mirthlessness." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 17, 2003
0/4 5% Swept Away (2002) " Even camp status eludes this tepid and misguided picture." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 11, 2002
0/4 54% The Transporter (2002) " Routine and rather silly." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 11, 2002
0/4 0% Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) " Two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick, and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 20, 2002
0/4 3% fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) " What we get in FearDotCom is more like something from a bad Clive Barker movie. In other words, it's badder than bad." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 30, 2002
0/4 40% Reign of Fire (2002) " The advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap. Any rock pile will do for a set. Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 12, 2002
0/4 3% McHale's Navy (1997) " By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 18, 2002
0/4 70% Romeo + Juliet (1996) " A monumental disaster." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 18, 2002
0/4 6% Spy Hard (1996) " Nielsen, with his expert deadpan and sense of comic timing, creates the illusion of humor -- for about 15 minutes." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 18, 2002
0/4 23% The Evening Star (1996) San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 18, 2002
0/4 64% From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) " The picture shows what happens when a writer (Tarantino) and a director (Rodriguez) come together and reinforce each other's worst tendencies and misconceptions." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 18, 2002
0/4 59% Blade II (2002) " It's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Mar 22, 2002
0/4 3% Rollerball (2002) " A remarkable film: Remarkably empty, remarkably noisy, remarkably pleasureless." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 8, 2002
0/4 28% Not Another Teen Movie (2001) " The makers of Not Another Teen Movie should be embarrassed that, in parodying She's All That, they copied most of the plot and then made a movie that bogs down in the same places as the original." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 14, 2001
0/4 22% Bones (2001) " To point out little flaws in this one would be like looking at a demolished car and complaining that the taillight doesn't work." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 25, 2001
0/4 7% Summer Catch (2001) " Summer Catch is the equivalent of a full-course meal with no calories. It is a mirage of a movie, 100 minutes of nothing." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 24, 2001
0/4 54% Lies (Gojitmal) (1999) San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 21, 2001
0/4 2% Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997) " They keep getting worse and worse and worse . . ." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 27% Trixie (2000) San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 9% The Pest (1997) " Obviously, someone must have told Leguizamo he's a comic genius. Whoever did that isn't his friend." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 44% Men Cry Bullets (1999) San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 7% Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) " A straight romantic comedy that depends on Lake's charm and acting ability to keep it afloat. The result is disaster." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 7% Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1998) " This sixth installment, by far the worst in the series, is bland and deadening." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0/4 7% Friends & Lovers (1999) " A cold, stupid bore about people with no goodness, just geniality; no inner life, just impulses." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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