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Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Publications:
Hearst Newspapers , Houston Chronicle , San Francisco Chronicle , San Francisco Free Press
Critics' Group:
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
2333

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3/4 46% Parkland (2013) " There's something to be said for Landesman's attempt to limit himself to just the facts that we can all agree on. Just that much is dramatic enough and awful enough to make for a good movie." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1/4 8% Runner Runner (2013) " "Runner Runner" is less than mediocre, but it's not repellent, which means that to watch it is to root for it - and to be disappointed." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/4 98% Gravity (2013) " The visual splendor of "Gravity" is more than a matter of execution; it's also one of imagination." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 90% Inequality For All (2013) " Reich is no condescending intellectual. He has no contempt for people of the opposite point of view. He even has nice things to say about Bill O'Reilly." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 27, 2013
3/4 100% On The Job (2013) " "On the Job" is a sturdy and sophisticated crime drama from the Philippines that takes a pretty gruesome situation and enriches its presentation with lots of human detail." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 27, 2013
2/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Something in the combination of Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini doesn't seem right, or perhaps it just doesn't look right." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " "Don Jon" deserves praise for wearing its message lightly and yet for daring to present such a lecture in today's Internet-drenched environment." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " This is a special movie." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 29, 2013
3/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " Any director who sees "Short Term 12" will want to cast Larson in something. This movie puts her on the map." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 29, 2013
3/4 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " "Closed Circuit" is steeped in the details of English law, and rather than being obscure or arcane, these details ground the film and give it an authentic air." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 28, 2013
2/4 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " The tone never changes. Scenes aren't inflected, and when the end comes, it registers, but without much impact." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/4 89% The World's End (2013) " "The World's End" has the aura - and this might only be an attractive illusion - of something imagined whole, in a burst of inspiration, rather than as something labored over." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/4 91% In a World... (2013) " It's a movie to make you happy to see the next movie written, directed and starring Lake Bell. She has an engaging presence and has a distinct comic sensibility." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " "The Butler" is a nice idea for a movie, but has a mostly silly script and some of the craziest and most laughable casting imaginable." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Writer-director Jeff Wadlow establishes a premise and follows it without compromise, but the trail leads to a very ugly place. In the end, the journey wasn't really worth it." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 26% Jobs (2013) " At its best, it's a good picture, and at its worst, it's almost good." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Fairly close to great, a lovely movie about young people that is in no way a formula picture. Original, truthful and moving: It's not about the phenomenon of being young, but about the particular characters, who are as specific and vivid as actual people." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4 54% Lovelace (2013) " The whole story, in just five words: Linda met the wrong guy. A miserable, dispiriting story, but done so well that the experience is galvanizing, not depressing. " — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary interviews leaders of Indonesian death squads responsible for deaths of millions & has them re-enact the killings. The combination of drama therapy and accidental self-exposure - utterly bizarre, unexpected and valuable. " — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4 68% Elysium (2013) " "Elysium" is an action movie made for people thinking about something besides things blowing up. Damon shows you everything without trying to show you anything - at least without seeming like he's trying. He's like looking into clear water." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " a movie written by a committee, too long, but the cast carries it a long way, these mild virtues don't quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see it I wouldn't block the door." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 7, 2013
4/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine" is beyond brilliant, beyond analysis. This is jaw-dropping work, what we go to the movies hoping to see, and we do. Every few years." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2.5/4 88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " Balanced portrayal, makes a persuasive case that Arendt was a valuable voice, whose dedicated work in trying to unravel the causes of Europe's moral collapse was worthy of study and consideration." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 63% 2 Guns (2013) " It's a complete mess, the spectacle of filmmakers blowing up their movie and everything in it, because they can't think of anything else to do." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 52% The To Do List (2013) " "The To Do List" is a romantic comedy with no romance and little comedy, but with an ugliness of spirit that's surprising and unrelenting." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/4 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Somewhere along the line somebody must have had a crazy idea, that The Wolverine required a decent script, and shouldn't rely only on action, audience goodwill and the sight of Hugh Jackman with his shirt off. The team delivers with this one." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 25, 2013
42% Red 2 (2013) " This is a likable, almost gentle comedy and also a violent action film about the possibility of a nuclear bomb going off in a major city." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 22, 2013
20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " "Girl Most Likely" is a strange movie, in that it has the atmosphere of a comedy and some extreme characters set up to be comical, but there are really no funny scenes." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 22, 2013
40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Refn's nerve is admirable, even if his film often borders on unwatchable." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 22, 2013
2/4 36% The Hot Flashes (2013) " Better for what it is than for how it's done...provides a welcome opportunity for five actresses of a certain age to share the screen together and yet it's pretty much a bland outing because virtually every scene plays out in a programmatic way." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 11, 2013
1/4 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " The temptation arises to say something nice about "Grown Ups 2" just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 11, 2013
1/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " Inadvertently makes the case that extinction might not be so bad... If this is the best we can do in terms of movies - if something like this can speak to the soul of audiences - maybe we should just turn over the cameras to the alien dinosaurs" — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " The movie is modest in its ambition and powerful in its reverberations. It takes Oscar Grant's story and makes it universal - and transforms a sometimes awkward and obvious movie into a work of art." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/4 76% Augustine (2013) " That the film raises interesting questions might be good enough, except that, while the movie goes about denying us information we want, it gives us details we don't need. "Augustine" churns slowly and doesn't make for compelling viewing." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 5, 2013
3/4 61% Byzantium (2013) " Neil Jordan's sensitive and very slow exploration of vampire angst. That the film also seems intended as some kind of vampire feminist statement makes it a rare combination of mildly boring and mildly hilarious." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 5, 2013
3/4 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " Almodovar is grabbing you by the lapels and talking into your face and making you see the life that's around you. "I'm So Excited" is frivolous, but it's the frivolity of a passionate and thinking person." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 5, 2013
3/4 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " You don't see too many movies about the importance of fathers, and they're rarely done this well. " — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 5, 2013
0/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " A movie for the whole family to avoid... 2 1/2 of the longest hours on record, a jumbled botch that is so confused in its purpose and so charmless in its effect that it must be seen to be believed, but better yet, no. Don't see it, don't believe it..." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3/4 65% The Heat (2013) " "The Heat" is a good movie and a successful action comedy, and it arrives just in time for Melissa McCarthy... (it) is something of a formula comedy, but it's inspired, too - and the inspiration is in the combining of these two actresses." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 27, 2013
4/4 50% White House Down (2013) " For pure enjoyment, for a good time at the movies, for something that will delight and exhilarate and send audiences out laughing, satisfied and thoroughly worked over, it's hard to imagine anything beating "White House Down."" — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 27, 2013
3 97% A Hijacking (2013) " Methodical and tense ... has the feel of something based on real-life events ... boils down to an arresting portrait of two men, with different backgrounds and abilities, doing everything they can not to break." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 21, 2013
3/4 67% World War Z (2013) " The choreography is thought out, and the use of 3-D is at least good enough that I embarrassed myself, leaping in my seat to get out of the way of a zombie that was falling on me." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/4 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " If you feel outraged and a little sick watching the people in The Bling Ring, it's because Coppola wants you to feel that way. You're not reacting against the movie, but with it." — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/4 84% This Is the End (2013) " Though This Is the End drags slightly here and there, the filmmakers keep it interesting by making the personal relationships dynamic, and the movie redeems all that is self-referential and self-congratulatory about it with a warmth of spirit." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " If Man of Steel is Snyder at his most conventional, he's still more inspired and innovative than his competition." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4/4 75% The East (2013) " As is often the case with people who become major stars, [Marling] seems as if she has always been there. She's new and yet familiar, as if we've known her all along." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 10, 2013
2/4 76% The Kings of Summer (2013) " Once they go into the woods, the movie becomes as interesting as watching kids hang around and play with sticks." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3/4 74% Love Is All You Need (2013) " The middle-aged romance between the central characters is a lovely thing, and that makes up for everything." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3/4 93% Frances Ha (2013) " Baumbach usually builds his films around difficult protagonists, but Frances is entirely endearing, at once silly and deep, hopeless and promising." — Hearst Newspapers
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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