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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2% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
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Mick LaSalle's Scores
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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 75
Everything Melville shows us, he shows us for a reason, and these reasons are never obscure but are rather pertinent to the action and to the moral movement of the world and the characters. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
It turns out that Pepe Le Moko is even better than "Algiers." -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Seeing it is a time-bending experience, a way of visiting the past and glimpsing the past's idea of the future. A masterpiece of art direction, the movie has influenced our vision of the future ever since, with its imposing white monoliths and starched facades. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
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. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
An ungainly masterpiece, but Chaplin's ungainliness is something one can grow fond of. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
But make no mistake, whether the movie is fair or horribly unfair - I know nothing of the actual facts and can't make that determination - its portrait of Zuckerberg is a hatchet job of epic and perhaps lasting proportions. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
One of the most innovative and best made films of the past year. Every now and then, even Dick Cheney gets to like a great movie.- Posted Jan 3, 2013
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Mick LaSalle 75
A fine picture because it can still, without fail, make an entire audience of children shut up and fall in love with a little green alien with big eyes and a turtlelike body. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
It is an exhilaration from beginning to end. It's the movie equivalent of that rare sort of novel where you find yourself checking to see how many pages are left and hoping there are more, not fewer. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring. -
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- Posted Sep 5, 2011
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Mick LaSalle 75
Though an estimable success overall, The Return of the King has several scenes too many and too great a concentration on battles. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
Amour is also unforgettable and one of a kind, two hours of torment that, in the end, you will probably not regret.- Posted Jan 10, 2013
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Mick LaSalle 100
Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. (Review twenty years after release). -
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Mick LaSalle 100
In this one masterpiece, Federico Fellini achieved the ideal balance -- between social observation and unconscious imagery, between artistic discipline and freedom, and between the neo-realism of 1950s Italian cinema and the orgiastic flights of his later work. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
By the end, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly achieves a victory over difficult material, but celebrating that fact doesn't preclude recognizing the story is not a natural for movies and remains an uneasy match. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
This is the most realistic film about teaching that you're ever likely to see. -
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Mick LaSalle 50
Anderson almost brings off a picture worthy of his grandiose ambition. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Gets it right. It's a wonderful movie. Watching it, one can't help but get the impression that everyone involved was steeped in Tolkien's work, loved the book, treasured it and took care not to break a cherished thing in it. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Toy Story 3 is a better film than "Wall-E" and "Up" in that it succeeds completely in conventional terms. For 103 minutes, it never takes audience interest for granted. It has action, horror and vivid characters, and it always keeps moving forward. -
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Mick LaSalle 50
It's an endurance test. Though never boring, the movie is a fairly long slog through the snow. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
Clearly a minor classic, mainly for reasons besides its crime story plot -- namely, the urbane fatalism of its cast and the overall mood of inevitability that hangs over every scene. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
An absolute delight, combining the cheap thrills of a biopic with the gentler, but more lasting, pleasures of a brilliant character study. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Feels positively Greek in its magnitude, a lament about fate, age, time and life. -
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Mick LaSalle 75
Until this film, these Shin Bet directors had never consented to an interview. Now that they've spoken - and have said the unexpected - we can only wonder if their words will have an influence.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Mick LaSalle 75
It's a movie filled with surprises, including one outright kick in the head that qualifies as one of the biggest movie moments of 1992. [18 Dec 1992] -
