ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mick LaSalle

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4	After The Wedding
3.5/4	Amazing Grace
3/4	300
2.5/4	The Page Turner
2/4	Days of Glory
1.5/4	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
1/4	Slow Burn
0/4	Pathfinder

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Roman de Gare
4/4	The Life Before Her Eyes
4/4	The Duchess of Langeais
4/4	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4/4	Atonement
4/4	No Country for Old Men
4/4	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4/4	Dan in Real Life
4/4	Into the Wild
4/4	3:10 to Yuma
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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0/4	Untraceable
0/4	License To Wed
0/4	Pathfinder
0/4	Epic Movie
0/4	Pink Panther
0/4	The Dukes of Hazzard
0/4	Last Days
0/4	Harry And Max
0/4	Junked
0/4	Team America: World Police
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

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1/4	"It's a dragged-out exercise, with no epic scale and no spirit worth talking about." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 15, 2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)	69%
4/4	"It's the smartest and best suspense movie you're likely to see for a while." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Roman de Gare (2008)	81%
1/4	"Plenty happens, but little of it advances the action, until the finale, which is lovely, but would have been a lot lovelier after 35 minutes, not 90." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Son of Rambow (2008)	76%
3/4	"Morris widens our understanding of the real crimes that took place there. This is where the movie becomes not just a slant on history but also a vehicle for broadening our understanding." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Standard Operating Procedure (2008)	78%
2/4	"Someday, real artists may come along to use some of the techniques that the Wachowskis are developing. Then things will get interesting." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 9, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	34%
2/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 6, 2008	Color of Lies (1998)	n/a
2/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 6, 2008	Blast of Silence (1961)	88%
1/4	"This is silly stuff, made of cardboard, with one of those Gordian-knot plots that could easily be cut through by one person's simply being honest with another person for 30 whole seconds. There's not much more to say." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Made of Honor (2008)	12%
3.5/4	"Iron Man is an action sci-fi blockbuster extravaganza that provides cartoon thrills for thinking people. It's the best movie of its kind since the second Spider-Man movie four years ago." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted May 2, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
3/4	Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 29, 2008	Mademoiselle (2001)	n/a
4/4	"Thoroughly thought through and photographed with imagination and psychological penetration, it's the product of a very shrewd directorial hand." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	22%
2/4	"An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
2/4	"It's a movie that deals in emotion and attempts to pass counterfeit goods. There's nothing there... . And yet by the deprived standards of the modern romantic comedy, one would have to say, well, it's not bad." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 25, 2008	Baby Mama (2008)	60%
3/4	"Few directors regularly exploit so well film's capacity for capturing the present and the past in the same instant. Wong is plugged into a special zone that feels that joy of experience and the pain of recollection simultaneously." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	48%
2/4	"Too bad the sober tone only makes for a movie that pretends at seriousness but that can't really be taken seriously." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 18, 2008	88 Minutes (2008)	6%
3/4	"*Like its predecessors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall* is a smart comedy that trades on social embarrassment and shows love from the standpoint of male insecurity.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 18, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
3/4	"*There's a lot to appreciate in Street Kings,* a tight, propulsive action thriller, but there's one thing to marvel at, and that's James Ellroy's command of story.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
2/4	"*The main thing interesting about Boarding Gate* is the spectacle of Assayas' effort -- the attitude and the international backdrop -- not the story itself.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Boarding Gate (2007)	26%
2/4	"*There's a gulf between what Smart People* should be and what it actually is.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 11, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
3/4	"*Stop laughing long enough, and you'll see that it's a picture about compromised lives and love for sale. But no one who watches Priceless* will stop laughing for that long.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Apr 4, 2008	Priceless (2008)	85%
2/4	"Leatherheads is not that good a movie, and yet it would be hard to enjoy saying anything nasty about it." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 4, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3/4	"Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history. Watching it is like watching a historical dramatization of something that never really happened." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	Flawless (2007)	62%
2.5/4	"A movie with an irresistible premise that ultimately collapses around the whole issue of motivation." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	21 (2008)	31%
3/4	"Clearly, Peirce's motives are pure. She's not using the 'stop-loss' issue as a wedge to make the government or the administration look bad. She's using it to dramatize an injustice and to advocate on behalf of the soldiers." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
4/4	" The movie's satisfactions are subtle, but they run deep, and there are many." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 21, 2008	The Duchess of Langeais (2008)	68%
1/4	"Without focus, without apparent intention, the movie floats along, stringing various incidents together, and in the end seems much longer than it is. It feels like 2 1/2 hours." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 21, 2008	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	26%
3/4	" It's strange. It's different. It's arresting, and it's definitely intentional. Ira Sachs knew what he wanted to do, and he's a talent worth watching." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Mar 14, 2008	Married Life (2008)	55%
1/4	"*There's no denying Austrian director Michael Haneke's skill as a filmmaker, but Funny Games* is just a vile cinematic exercise.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Mar 14, 2008	Funny Games (2008)	49%
3/4	"*Even more than the music in this musically rich picture, the great pleasure of Honeydripper* is in watching Danny Glover as Tyrone Purvis, the club owner.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Feb 29, 2008	Honeydripper (2007)	67%
3/4	"*By meticulously piling evidence on top of evidence, The Overlooked Suspect: O.J. Is Guilty, But Not of Murder* makes a convincing case for another interpretation.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Overlooked Suspect: O.J. Is Guilty, But Not of Murder (2008)	n/a
1/4	"We get the idea -- we may even agree with it: Just don't make us sit through 78 minutes of empty cleverness." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	Military Intelligence and You! (2008)	38%
2/4	"In the end, the truest thing that can be said for Chicago 10 is that, though Morgen did just about everything he could to make his movie unwatchable, the story was interesting enough to fight him to a draw." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	Chicago 10 (2008)	77%
3/4	"However embarrassed you might feel in the morning, this in an enjoyable movie with an entertaining angle on a hard-to-resist period of history." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
2/4	" The real problem lies in the character Ferrell is playing. Aside from the unimportant detail that there really were no former disco stars in 1976, the character is vague -- and specificity of character is what makes Ferrell funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 29, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
2/4	"The audience becomes disheartened long before the protagonist does, and so a full hour before the movie has ended, the audience has received the message, digested it and is ready for the fadeout." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 22, 2008	Beaufort (2008)	86%
1/4	"*When everything is finally revealed, the story Vantage Point* tells is fairly pedestrian, and nothing special is gained from all the stopping and restarting.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Feb 22, 2008	Vantage Point (2008)	37%
1.5/4	"Thick stew of awful." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 22, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	65%
3/4	"As the movie is about a character's growing into his own truth rather than discovering some preordained truth, Definitely, Maybe is hard to outguess. For once in a romantic comedy you won't be able to tell after 5 minutes who will end up together." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 13, 2008	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	72%
3/4	"In Bruges is not a great movie, but there's no mistaking that it's the product of a great talent." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	In Bruges (2008)	78%
1/4	"So intricate, so convoluted and so full of various character names that it becomes impossible to follow." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
4/4	"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." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Feb 1, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	96%
2.5/4	"This violence contains a movie, but only intermittently." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 25, 2008	Rambo (2008)	33%
0/4	"*As plain awful as Untraceable* is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jan 25, 2008	Untraceable (2008)	15%
2/4	"It's just OK, one of those decent little movies that get released in January." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 18, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	20%
1/4	"*All the plot elements that we're encouraged to care about in 27 Dresses* resolve in a dud, and the only thing that feels good about the feel-good finish is that it means the movie's over.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Jan 18, 2008	27 Dresses (2008)	39%
2/4	"The movie is caught in the crossfire of its two missions -- to celebrate the universal things that "really matter" in life (friendship, family) and to celebrate what it means to live like Jack Nicholson." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 11, 2008	The Bucket List (2007)	40%
3/4	"Beautifully conceived and composed, it's eerie, sometimes frightening and surprisingly moving." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 9, 2008	The Orphanage (2007)	85%
2.5/4	"Individual scenes and sequences are too strange, haunting and emotionally right for the film to be dismissed. There should be no attempt or temptation to dismiss it." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Jan 4, 2008	There Will Be Blood (2007)	91%
3/4	" Tamara Jenkins has made a movie about something that lots of people are going through but nobody wants to deal with, not even in life, much less in entertainment. And she's done it fearlessly, with the right mix of humor and horror." -- San Francisco Chronicle Posted Dec 21, 2007	The Savages (2007)	90%
3/4	"*Though not great, Charlie Wilson's War* is definitely worthwhile and entertaining, and clocking in at a modest 98 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome.*" -- San Francisco Chronicle* Posted Dec 21, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%

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