Mick LaSalle

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 3,799 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: 2,062 out of 3799
  2. Mixed: 1,037 out of 3799
  3. Negative: 700 out of 3799
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Palm Springs
    An unusual and imaginative romantic comedy that takes the central idea of “Groundhog Day” and builds on it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Greyhound
    All of which is to say that, when it’s Hanks steering the ship and fighting the Nazis, it means something extra. It’s not just happening to him, or them, but to us. And so, we can better imagine what it cost those guys, who had to make that back-and-forth ocean voyage in the awful months before their leaders figured out how to sink the U-boats.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Mick LaSalle
    The Old Guard
    The Old Guard shows that, in the hands of a smart writer and director, something can be made of it that’s worthy of our attention. This genre can grow. Let’s hope it does.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    Desperados
    Desperados is a lot of fun and announces “Saturday Night Live” alum Nasim Pedrad as a comic actress in the tradition of Sandra Bullock.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    John Lewis: Good Trouble
    A rambling documentary that freely moves back and forth through time but maintains interest and cohesion by virtue of its subject. The more you watch Lewis, the more fascinating he gets.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    You Should Have Left
    It’s low-key in tone and not a splatter fest, even remotely. You Should Have Left is horror for a thinking audience.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    7500
    This is one well-made thriller, and for a director who wants to work in that genre, this is as strong a first feature as any filmmaker could hope for.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Mick LaSalle
    Artemis Fowl
    There are people who like movies like this, who like when a movie screen looks like their computer screen and who don’t mind when everything is fake, including the emotions. Artemis Fowl is a genre movie, and as such, it’s an OK version of the thing it is. I just can’t stand the thing it is.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Da 5 Bloods
    In the end, Da 5 Bloods feels like a clumsy hybrid of two fine impulses — to make a heist movie set in Vietnam, and to make a statement about race in 2020. Alas, each intention doesn’t serve the other, and so both go unrealized.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Mick LaSalle
    The King of Staten Island
    Davidson’s appeal is essential to the movie’s success. If you know him only from “Saturday Night Live,” you’ll be surprised by him here. On “SNL,” he can be zany and annoying. Here he has a very particular quality that seems to be coming from a place of past pain. He has equanimity. Without making a fuss about it, he’s attentive to other people’s feelings. He just seems like a decent, thoughtful young guy, someone that you’d like to see come into his own.
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