Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 2,000 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than 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.
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Mick LaSalle's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,056 out of 2000
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Mixed: 559 out of 2000
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Negative: 385 out of 2000
2,000
movie reviews
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Mick LaSalle 25
The first and most honest thing to say about Miracle at St. Anna is that it's an awful mess. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
With its flat story, numbed-out protagonist, and faux artistic lighting and set design - everything is dark or moody or darkishly moody or moodily dark - Max Payne seems a good half hour longer than its running time. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
RocknRolla attempts to depict a world of ever-expanding chaos. But the chaos is only in the way the story is told. The actual vision Ritchie offers is pedestrian and tame. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The comedy, to the extent there is any, consists mainly of Carrey's verbal asides and strained reactions to people. The script gives him very little to work with. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Witless banter might have won Ginger Rogers for Fred Astaire, but Thompson is too smart for that. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
In its second half, Outlander falls apart completely, becoming nothing but a violent, mindless monster movie along the lines of "Alien vs. Predator." -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Two awful things about Push are at least interesting: The first is the way in which the story is confused. The second is that the story makes no sense. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Credit the director for one thing. He could have stretched it to three hours, but he gets in and out of this mess in less than two.- Posted May 13, 2013
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Mick LaSalle 25
The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance - "enjoyable," in the relative sense - is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A cute movie, a little too cute and a little too aware of its own cuteness. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The production values are first rate. But you will wait in vain to hear a good reason for this movie's existence. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Setting out to make a cult movie is almost as strange as setting out to make a camp movie. Or setting out to make a movie that's so bad it's good. If you know you're doing it, you're not really doing it. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Serious Moonlight is a tonal disaster, distasteful and sentimental by turns. It was probably a mistake to have Hines try to walk that same delicate line that took Shelly her entire career to master. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The moments of action are interspersed with lengthy plot developments that are hard to follow. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Has a vacant, inept, why-oh-why feeling from its opening minutes and only gets worse. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The movie's most inexcusable failing is that, despite all the flashbacks, we never get a sense of what this relationship was like when it worked. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A disgrace to the talents of Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, but it's not enough just to say that. It's also a disgrace to the talents of Rene Russo and whoever drove the coffee truck to the set every day. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen," only less amusing. -
