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Mick LaSalle

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A Private Life (2025) 81% 3/4 EDIT “In America, it might be called a mess, and at times this movie sags. But overall, there’s something about it that holds interest. “A Private Life” is an odd ramble that eventually arrives somewhere.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% 3/4 EDIT “"Misery" creates a state of tension that's almost unbearable and keeps building it, until the audience is frustrated and cringing.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 21, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “You can love or hate “The Chronology of Water,” but if you don’t come away from it marveling at the brilliance of Poots’ performance, you just weren’t paying attention.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4/4 EDIT “If “Dead Man’s Wire” has a weakness it’s that it doesn’t create an intense desire to find out how it all turns out. It compensates with dark humor and with a central performance by Skarsgård that’s fascinating.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 2/4 EDIT “The inescapable, undeniable weakness of “Father Mother Sister Brother” is that, while its first part is thoroughly satisfying, its second part is just OK, and its third part is close to a waste of time.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/4 EDIT “It doesn't grab the audience, fling it into another world and make people forget where they parked their cars. But it does leave the viewer with a glow, and along the way it has magical moments, even if it's not fully magical as a whole.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 3/4 EDIT “The last 30-40 minutes of “The Housemaid” are so propulsive and unexpected that it makes up for what the middle lacks.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% 1/4 EDIT “The documentary soon derails into bogus history, specious arguments and a self-blinding variety of political bias.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 1/4 EDIT ““Goodbye June” is a flawed exercise that probably never would have made it to the screen had the screenwriter not made such a shrewd choice in mothers.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% 2.5/4 EDIT “More than most filmmakers, Brooks has a strong sense of what he can get away with in terms of narrative. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 12, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “If you're interested in seeing what can be done with action visuals in 1994, True Lies is the film to see. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/4 EDIT “The relationship between Harris and Mastrantonio as husband and wife makes "The Abyss" something more than a special-effects thriller.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/4 EDIT “Olsen, Teller and Turner were clearly up for making a better movie, and it’s too bad they didn’t get the chance.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “If “Hamnet” is to be remembered for anything, it’s for the powerhouse performance of Jessie Buckley.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 4/4 EDIT ““Jay Kelly” is Baumbach’s best film and, from an artistic standpoint, his first complete success.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3/4 EDIT “What truly propels the film is the growing realization, through both the script and Sweeney’s performance, that Christy isn’t an ordinary person blessed with an extraordinary gift... she’s an extraordinary person whose very life force is awe-inspiring.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3/4 EDIT “They pull it off, not seamlessly — there are scattered moments of narrative awkwardness — but effectively. By the end, “Nuremberg” feels like an important film.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 1/4 EDIT “"Predator 2" doesn't waste time on reasons and doesn't worry about building toward anything.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “It’s genuinely exciting to see an era so lovingly and faithfully rendered.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The quiet intensity of “Blue Moon” is at times agonizing. Any more would have been too much.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 22, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “"From Beyond" takes about 15 minutes to really get cooking, and from there on the action keeps topping itself.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s a mix of weak and strong that might average out in the so-so category, but there’s not a minute of it that’s mediocre. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 1/4 EDIT ““A House of Dynamite” is just a wallow in despair and self-importance, a desperately unserious movie about the world’s most serious subject.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “This is horror at its best, because it makes you look at life differently. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 0/4 EDIT ““Anemone” is not even a pair of twos. It’s a total-nothing hand, the worst film Daniel Day-Lewis ever made and the worst he ever will make, unless he and his son are planning a sequel.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 29, 2025 Full Review
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