Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 2,052 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Mick LaSalle's Scores
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| Average review score: | 60 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,084 out of 2052
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Mixed: 573 out of 2052
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Negative: 395 out of 2052
2,052
movie reviews
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- Mick LaSalle
What makes The White Ribbon a big movie, an important movie, is that Haneke's point extends beyond pre-Nazi Germany. -
- Mick LaSalle
The movie is funny, definitely funny. But underlying the humor is a vision so bleak, so despairing and so utterly hopeless as to make "No Country for Old Men" almost look cheerful. -
- Mick LaSalle
It's not enough to say that Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino's best movie. It's the first movie of his artistic maturity, the film his talent has been promising for more than 15 years. -
- Mick LaSalle
There's something to be said for a formula picture done almost to perfection. In 2012, Emmerich gives you everything you expect, but gives it to you bigger. -
- Mick LaSalle
First, this movie should be enjoyed. Later, marveled at. And then, once the excitement has faded, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days really should be studied, because director Cristian Mungiu creates scenes unlike any ever filmed. -
- Mick LaSalle
The language is brilliant, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you'd probably have to watch the movie twice to get them all. -
- Mick LaSalle
Christian McKay who, as Orson Welles in Me and Orson Welles"gives what I believe is the most exact and uncanny screen portrayal of an historical figure, ever. -
- Mick LaSalle
Feels positively Greek in its magnitude, a lament about fate, age, time and life. -
- Mick LaSalle
Funny People is a true brass ring effort, a reach for excellence that takes big risks. It's 146 minutes, with a story that's more European in feeling than American. -
- Mick LaSalle
The most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded. -
- Mick LaSalle
Part conscious and part unconscious, Watchmen tells us of a world without hope and then makes us wonder if we're already living in it. -
- Mick LaSalle
What a shrewd achievement for writer-director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas"), to have made a movie that everyone will acclaim as beautiful, when perhaps the most beautiful thing about it is the sheer ugliness of it all. -
- Mick LaSalle
So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it. -
- Mick LaSalle
A great film, the best I've seen since Terrence Malick's "The New World," and far and away the richest and most brilliantly acted picture to be released this Oscar season. -
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- Mick LaSalle
Ages well in memory because it gradually seems to mean more. Its meaning can't be summed up in a sentence, but it has to do with a view of life as inexpressibly sad and yet always right. -
- Mick LaSalle
An absolute delight, combining the cheap thrills of a biopic with the gentler, but more lasting, pleasures of a brilliant character study. -
- Mick LaSalle
For pure laughs, for the experience of just sitting in a chair and breaking up every minute or so, Superbad is 2007's most successful comedy. -
- Mick LaSalle
The experience of seeing this film is cumulative, sober and profound. -
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- Mick LaSalle
As in a good European film, shots are allowed to breathe. The focus is on character and human emotion. At the same time, the movie shows an American concern for pace and story development. The result is the best of both worlds. -
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- Mick LaSalle
The smartest thing director Steven Soderbergh did in the making of The Girlfriend Experience was to cast Sasha Grey. -
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- Mick LaSalle
Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. (Review twenty years after release). -
