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.
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Mick LaSalle's Scores
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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
It's great to see cherished, longtime stars in big roles to which they can bring so much spontaneity and finesse; you wish only that this movie were sturdier and had aimed higher. Judging from the bloopers that unreel during Grumpier Old Men's end credits, the cast had lots of fun making this movie--more fun, it would seem, than it is to watch. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The picture, which marks the debut of Mexican film maker Guillermo del Toro, is a dull hybrid - a ponderous art film crossed with a vampire story. [06 May 1994] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Higher Learning says nothing new or challenging and is too naive to inspire controversy. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a lovingly made, gorgeously realized, meticulously crafted failure. It has big names, a big budget, big sets, a big, thundering score and even big hair. But it doesn't do it. It doesn't excite or fascinate but just lies there on the screen. [13 Nov 1992, p. C1] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
[Pedro Almodovar] gives it a nice try, but his approach turns out to be completely wrong for the material he's working with here. [25 May 1990] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Jack is a warm, heartfelt disaster that shows that life is fleeting but movies can be very long indeed. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It takes about 20 minutes to catch on that Friday is without narrative drive - and about as long to figure out that the film offers nothing better in place of it. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
There's not a single moment here in which Nixon is admirable, decisive or appealing. Nixon doesn't work as a drama, but with a little push it might have been a great comedy. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Amateur gives the impression of a sloppy first draft. It begins with a splash, meanders until it reaches feature length, then ends abruptly. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, a senselessly adapted, ill-conceived, poorly acted mess of a film that's guaranteed to frustrate anyone who loves the play and to put everybody else to sleep. [18 Jan 1991] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It's a bomb - not the usual bomb, but a time bomb, despite a 20-minute stretch at the beginning that goes along nicely. [17 May 1991] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Unfortunately, Sucka falls apart after the first half-hour. The action sequences are confusing and senseless. The setups for the action scenes are long and pointless. You know where the movie is heading, and there are no surprises along the way. It's one joke, over and over. [17 Feb 1989, p.E7] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Cmera work can't do anything about the barrenness of the screenplay, nor the sense of fundamental insincerity at the core of the film. [03 Sep 1993] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, is a stiff, guaranteed to disappoint just about everybody, except those rooting against him. [11 Jul 1990, p.E1] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The presence of Washington lends the picture a much-needed dose of authenticity. But in the end Virtuosity is disconnected and uninvolving, despite -- or maybe because of -- a climax that comes in three distinct waves. One section seems to be a half-hour sound-and-light show. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Twenty minutes in, the movie is already operating at a deficit, and it never recovers. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Highly visual but cold. It's undeniably inventive, but also relentlessly fey and self-consciously zany and, in terms of story, it moves with audacious slowness. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The Losers is boring. It's predictable. It's so, so active, and yet so, so dead. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Trust never lives up to its snappy opening. Everything is tongue-in-cheek here - yet it's never remotely clear what the point is or what's getting satirized. [16 Aug 1991] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
[Hartley] changes the script enough so that the integrity of his experiment goes out the window. But he doesn't change enough so that the narrative can have any suspense. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Just because it's a conscious commentary on other vile, useless, pointless cinematic exercises doesn't make it any less vile, useless and pointless.- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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Mick LaSalle 25
The bottom line here is that Cyrus is ghastly in The Last Song, bad not just in one or two ways, but in all kinds of ways. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
What we have in this film is a whole lot of nothing, and the little that's there is irritating. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It's a strange thing, this type of whimsy. Kari offers us ideas in place of characters, and yet he expects us to see through these ideas to the real-life conditions they represent - and then to respond to them in kind. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The worst kind of avant-garde film, one that hides its lack of commitment to the story, the characters and the genre under cover of being experimental. It mocks form and plays with form but offers nothing in its place, just boredom, emptiness and the oldest metaphor in captivity, about grass coming up through concrete. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Standing Ovation is an innovative film in the sense that every minute or so it comes up with a different way of being annoying. Moreover, it often goes for a layered effect, in which it's annoying in two or three ways simultaneously. -
