Mick LaSalle
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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 3.1 points lower than other critics.
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Mick LaSalle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 61 | |
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Highest review score: | A Hologram for the King | |
Lowest review score: | Venom: Let There Be Carnage |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,856 out of 3437
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Mixed: 957 out of 3437
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Negative: 624 out of 3437
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- Mick LaSalle
The acting is splendid. Fellowes’ dialogue may not be subtle, but the actors are so familiar and at home in these roles that they make up for whatever is lacking.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 17, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Senior Year is a just-OK movie, but it’s a very good Rebel Wilson movie, in that she has been funny in supporting roles, but this is the first time she has excelled as the name above the title.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 13, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
If you haven’t been to the movies in a while, Top Gun: Maverick is a way to get back in. It’s pretty much what “going to the movies” is all about.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 12, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Hatching has the quality of a fable, and like the best fables, it has meanings that reverberate well beyond its story.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 3, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Still, despite Olsen and the appealing breeziness of Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is what it is, a superhero extravaganza with too many fight scenes. But director Sam Raimi doesn’t overplay them, and the creative visuals keep them from becoming monotonous.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 3, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Neeson also does a good job tracing his character’s cognitive deterioration over the course of the movie. As such, Memory is like a hybrid, mixing serious sections with Neeson’s usual action stuff. Call it a little bit of this and a little bit of that, or not enough of this and not enough of that.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 26, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
As a Nicolas Cage movie — not just as a movie, but as a vehicle for what a specific actor can do onscreen — this is the most interesting thing Cage has done since “Face/Off.”- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 22, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Petite Maman immerses the viewer in all the things you might have forgotten about childhood — what’s funny to a child, what’s valued, what’s priceless, what will be remembered and valued in years to come. Just watching the almost-identical Sanz sisters play and interact becomes fascinating, like witnessing from the outside some lovely and enclosed world.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 18, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
At any given time, a different character will seem to be the movie’s focus. But as long as we recognize that love’s transformational power is the real subject, there can be no mystery about the movie’s intentions or how it’s unfolding.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 13, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
There are all kinds of dull movies. There’s check-your-watch (or phone) dull. There’s run-into-the-bathroom-to-splash-water-on-your-face dull. And then there’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is standing-up dull.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
For almost half of the movie, you might wonder why Nicole Kidman chose to take such a lackluster role. The answer: Just wait — and brace yourself. Kidman is never happier than when she gets to go to extremes, and by that measure, Queen Gudrun is one of her happiest roles.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 11, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
There’s enough variation and suspense, enough complication in the form of other characters with other concerns, that Ambulance stays fresh until the finish.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Looking back over All the Old Knives, it might be more accurate to call it a spy romance, except that makes it sound titillating. Better to say it’s a movie about the consequences of trying to stay human while working in the spy business.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
It doesn’t make cows into human beings. If anything, for some 90 minutes, it turns us into a cow. In doing so, it shows us — in a way that we actually feel it — how amazing it is to exist.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 4, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Think of The Bubble as part of a pattern we could have anticipated. Pandemic movies almost can’t be any good at this point. The pandemic won’t be funny, interesting or anything anybody wants to think about until we’re safely beyond it by a few years. So, filmmakers, set your watches for pandemic nostalgia to commence circa 2027, and between now and then, just put it out of your minds.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
It’s as if the film itself is suffering from a pandemic hangover and can’t believe there’s a reason to feel better, even when describing one of the greatest scientific and manufacturing achievements in human history.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 29, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Mothering Sunday is most likely a one-of-a-kind hybrid, a brilliant one-off.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Filmmakers can’t depend on funny actors to go out there cold and bring back laughs. They have to be given funny things to do.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Without question, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a remarkable piece of work, one of the most original and creative films of the past couple of years.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 21, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
In the end, about the only thing that could have saved “Windfall” was a really good ending. But what we get is something gimmicky that makes no psychological sense and that the actors cannot make work.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Lyne has always gone the extra step, and Deep Water shows that he hasn’t lost his touch.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
There are turns and twists and multiple dashes of the unexpected, and it is all impressively arranged and justified.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 15, 2022
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- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 9, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
The film documents how Lucy used her clout to get her husband cast as her co-star. It was a way for them to see each other. The rest is history, but a really interesting history.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 1, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Nothing that works here adds up to anything worth a long slog in a movie theater, watching Pattinson punching guys and knocking guns out of their hands. From start to finish, The Batman is mostly just a collection of bad ideas.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 28, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
Even if the idea of The Desperate Hour makes you uneasy, you will be engrossed by it.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
In the end, the most valuable aspect of “Cyrano” is that it shows that Peter Dinklage can do anything.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 23, 2022
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- Mick LaSalle
The truth is, Studio 666 really is just one joke, and so McDonnell had only one play that he could make here — to take that joke, to hit it hard and keep hitting it, and then get out fast, while the audience is still laughing. He doesn’t quite do that. At 106 minutes, Studio 666 overstays its welcome.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 23, 2022
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