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MICK LASALLE
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• San Francisco Chronicle
• San Francisco Free Press

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Total Reviews: 1598

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San Francisco Film Critics Circle


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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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2/4
 
Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Color of Lies (1998)n/a
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2/4
 
Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Blast of Silence (1961)88%
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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%
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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%
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3/4
 
Click here to read article -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 29, 2008
 
Mademoiselle (2001)n/a
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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%
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2/4
 
"An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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1.5/4
 
"Thick stew of awful." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)65%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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2.5/4
 
"This violence contains a movie, but only intermittently." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)33%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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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