Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 2,002 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 0.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Mick LaSalle's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,057 out of 2002
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Mixed: 559 out of 2002
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Negative: 386 out of 2002
2,002
movie reviews
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Mick LaSalle 25
Thus, we find ourselves watching an ice-cold movie about competition that contains not a shred of rooting interest. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Depictions of an aide talking about her hospital vigil and her words of comfort to a distraught Laura Bush are creepy and exploitative -- and borderline disgusting. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
These people are so stupid that they make us think, well, wait a second: Maybe those livers and kidneys could be put to better use. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Blanchett's performance is Soderbergh's biggest mistake. He either encourages or permits her to play Lena as a Greta Garbo caricature, which is mildly amusing if you're interested in Garbo, but if you're interested in Lena and The Good German, you're out of luck. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It's a dreadful exercise, tin-eared and sincere, bereft of any truth or inspiration. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The film is intended to be light and whimsical, but with a core of sincere emotion. But it's as if the thing were made by Martian anthropologists who assume that human audiences are as twisted as the people onscreen. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Has no narrative throughline, no emotional spine. It's a mess. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A whimsical but flat-footed attempt to account for several lost months in the life of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known to the world as Molière. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It takes a winning recipe and adds some distinctly Hollywood flavors...The result is a botched job. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
There's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A frustrating movie, a work of immaturity from a director who should be past the empty gestures and self-protective distance of his early work. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It's off in many directions - false in its details, false in its relationships, false in its emotions - but probably the first and worst thing that needs to be said about it is that it's also overlong and dull. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a good filmmaker to make one as bad as I'm Not There. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It gets worse and worse as it goes along and finally ends just as it's becoming unbearable. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A romantic comedy and an adventure story, but in this case that just means it bombs in two distinct ways. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Inside 10 minutes, at most 15, Be Kind Rewind reveals itself as an awful mess, and it only gets worse. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Vantage Point has nothing going on. There's no artistic, philosophical or even jolly entertainment reason for adopting this strategy. It's just arbitrary, a gimmick. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Another dreadful, not-funny Owen Wilson movie, in which Wilson is the best thing. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
This is a story that should have been, at the absolute most, 20 minutes long. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
If it happens to hit you right - that is, if you happen to catch its wavelength of tear-and-a-smile whimsicality - the movie will speak to you. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Exactly one minute longer than its predecessor, but it's a dragged-out exercise, with no epic scale and no spirit worth talking about. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Here's the tricky thing about The Strangers. Sure, it uses cinema to ends that are objectionable and vile ... but it does it well, with more than usual skill. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Serious intent may be lurking somewhere in there, but it's buried under layers of stupidity - not just stupid jokes, which is what you want from Sandler, but also stupid, shallow thinking. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a REALLY bad idea. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Australia shows all the signs of having been a labor of love for director Baz Luhrmann. One problem: It's his love, and the audience's labor. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
As for Fraser, his clumsy humanity is endearing, but by now, assuming he has invested wisely, he should have enough money saved so as to not have to waste his talent anymore. -
