Mick LaSalle

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 3,800 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mick LaSalle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Sound and Fury
Lowest review score: 0 Nightbreed
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,063 out of 3800
  2. Mixed: 1,037 out of 3800
  3. Negative: 700 out of 3800
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The High Note
    The High Note begins well, ends well and even has a good middle, but there’s one extra plot turn, about 15 minutes before the finish, that’s one too many. It doesn’t spoil the movie, but it adds an unwelcome touch of sentimentality into a story that is otherwise fairly tough throughout.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The Beekeeper
    The Beekeeper is the purest stupid fun I’ve had in a movie theater since “F9: The Fast Saga” in 2021.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Scoop
    Between the lines, Scoop conveys, not only what Andrew most likely did, but what led him to assume that he’d get away with it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Book Club: The Next Chapter
    Book Club was, at best, a pleasant diversion. But Book Club: The Next Chapter is something more. It’s a movie that proves that it’s possible to make an entertaining, full-length picture with practically no story.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    One Night in Miami
    The acting is uniformly strong, which says something about King as a director.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The Princess
    Director Le-Van Kiet and screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton succeed by making the action look real, by coming up with intriguing plot twists and keeping our heroine in danger at all times.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Liv & Ingmar
    The documentary is exclusively about Ullmann and Bergman as human beings and about how they got along.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Fruitvale Station
    The movie is modest in its ambition and powerful in its reverberations.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Detroit Rock City
    While it's possible to have a great time with the movie without having any interest in Kiss, it should be noted that the band does make an appearance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Happiest Season
    Everyone in the movie is excellent, everyone is tonally spot-on, and no one has a single bad moment – which is another way of saying that Clea DuVall, best known as an actress (“Veep,” “Argo”), is a real director. She has made one of the best Christmas movies of the millennium.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    In a World...
    For starters, 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Class Act
    It's not just for people who like rap or the rap atmosphere. It's a well-paced, light comedy that can appeal to anybody. [05 Jun 1992, p.D1]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Invisible Life
    Invisible Life is not an entirely fun watch, and its 139-minute running time is an investment and sometimes feels like it. But it offers something more than the usual experience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    Judas and the Black Messiah quietly announces its modern relevance by presenting as sophisticated a depiction of systemic racism as you could hope to see in a movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Bad Influence
    Director Curtis Hanson gives the film a slow, European pace and a cold, slick look. The sound-track is made up almost entirely of internal noises -- a buzzing fluorescent bulb, music from a record player. Everything contributes to an ominous atmosphere. [09 Mar 1990, p.E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Guess Who
    A lot of frivolous but genuine laughs.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Of Gods and Men
    This is a beautiful film, full of gray-and white-haired men who grow in stature before our eyes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    George Washington
    Hardly perfect or fully successful, but it's strange and strangely beautiful -- a unique work of art.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The Whistleblower
    Clumsy and ineffective in its first half hour. But gradually, as her investigation deepens, and we see the true hideousness of what she is uncovering, the movie achieves urgency and clarity of purpose.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Green Zone
    Watchable in spite of Greengrass as much as because of him. The story is good enough to make viewers want to ignore the photography.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Ajami
    At its best, Ajami shows you things you never would have considered or imagined.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Duel
    This simple premise -- a killer truck stalks a driver -- becomes the basis for an exceptionally fraught and well- made suspense film.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Waist Deep
    Sometimes excessiveness and implausibility are virtues in disguise. Movies this enjoyable don't come about by accident.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    About a Boy
    In addition to being a smart comedy and an excellent showcase for Grant, it's an honest movie about childhood that avoids sappiness and sentiment and goes in unexpected directions.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Two of Us
    The drama builds and builds until the last seconds and never really lets up. It’s a striking debut from Meneghetti, in his first feature film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The Cat's Meow
    Bogdanovich takes a tale of old Hollywood and infuses it with velocity and enthusiasm.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Kong: Skull Island
    Kong: Skull Island is a smart SciFi action movie that doesn’t rely on a handful of monsters and random scenes of computerized destruction to run out the clock. It has a smart script, imaginative filmmaking and a cast of fine actors that actually get to act.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Ashkenazi is a terrific actor, commanding and grand-scale in his aura, but with an unmistakable warmth. And Gere, cast against type, couldn’t be better. In a career of only good performances, this is one of his best.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Beastly
    I liked this movie, maybe more than I should have, and would be happy to see anything this director wants to do next.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Deterrence
    One of the pleasures of Deterrence is that it does not tell the audience what to think.
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