For 2,272 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mick LaSalle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Fahrenheit 9/11
Lowest review score: 0 National Security
Score distribution:
2,272 movie reviews
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    If For Greater Glory were a person, it would be wearing two different socks. It is a scattered mess, as earnest as a folk song, but like a folk song that goes on for two hours and 23 minutes. Not only does it never justify its epic length, it gets even the small things wrong.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    It's monumentally coarse and vulgar, aimed at the mentality of a 14-year-old locked inside his father's liquor cabinet, and nothing about it is funny, least of all Adam Sandler.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    For about an hour of its running time, The Magic of Belle Isle seems like a tiresome, sentimental and slow-moving story about a grumpy old man redeemed by the sweet spirit of a rural town and by the nice family that lives next door. But no, it's even worse than that.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    As far as formulaic, empty and disappointing comedies go, The Watch is far from the worst. About every seven or eight minutes, perhaps a dozen times over the course of the picture, the movie generates a medium-size laugh. Not a big laugh.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The big disappointment of The Babymakers is that it doesn't come close to being worthy of its two stars, Paul Schneider and Olivia Munn.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The Bourne series ended with the last installment, and now comes a 135-minute death rattle called The Bourne Legacy. It's a peculiar movie, both over-plotted and under-plotted, encumbered by layers of detail and yet with no details invested in or developed.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    How many doubts can Lee possibly cram into one motion picture? Red Hook Summer has almost too many to count: moments that go clunk, followed by others that go clang; actors who talk as if reading their lines off cue cards or rehearsing them for the first time; and set pieces that lie there.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    An agony of bad plotting and whimsical, lifeless scenes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Butter is a misfire. At 90 minutes it feels inflated, and though clearly intended as funny, it's difficult to locate, except in the most general terms, the focus of the movie's satire, and there's not a laugh to be had.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The bottom line with Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is that the writer-director has taken Emily Brontë's tale of undying passion and rendered it passionless.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Worst of all, in promoting its hero's eccentric journey as a voyage of healing, the movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence. It turns boring and cute and begs us to love it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    You know there is something seriously wrong with Anna Karenina when you start rooting for the train.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Unfortunately, the characters are so programmatic, the premise so ridiculous and the situations so far-fetched even if you accept that premise that no energy can be built, and the little that's there can't be sustained. Red Dawn is a vigorous but pointless exercise.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    If you loved the earlier films, these are moments you will hold on to, but they're very few, and they're not enough.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The real problem with This Is 40 is its lack of truth, that Apatow wanted to express something about married life, and it eluded him. After all, no less than Kierkegaard once said that the actual dynamics of marriage are beyond the scope of art, and he was the best movie critic of the 19th century.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The movie equivalent of an idiot who, to avoid scorn, starts acting like an even bigger idiot, so as to get in on the joke, too...It takes everything and nothing seriously, depending on what the filmmakers think they can get away with at any given moment, and the result, while not painful to watch, is ridiculous.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Identity Thief is not only not funny. It's negative funny. It's short on laughs, but it will disturb and annoy.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Every single thing wrong with John Dies at the End might have been avoided had John died at the beginning, along with all the other characters, transforming an awful full-length movie into a harmless five-minute short.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    There's only so much Soderbergh can do. Gray's Anatomy is made up mainly of Gray, and there's a whole lot of Gray going on. The story is unremarkable. Gray's observations, pedestrian.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    It has a weak story that provides no tension, feeling or interest. Its opening action sequence is just a long, drawn-out dud, filmed by director John Moore in the worst modern style of quick cuts and smeary, jittery photography.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    That was probably writer-director Roman Coppola's main responsibility in "Charles Swan," to give the audience a character worth watching. Get that right, and everything else falls into place. Get that wrong, and the audience finds out just how long 84 minutes can be. The answer: really long.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The movie reveals itself as not merely dull, but pointless.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Just because it's a conscious commentary on other vile, useless, pointless cinematic exercises doesn't make it any less vile, useless and pointless.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    This remake of the 1981 horror classic starts well, but it soon degenerates into tiresome shock gore that overstays its welcome, despite the film's modest run time. Jane Levy as a heroin addict going through withdrawal is the one bright spot.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Credit the director for one thing. He could have stretched it to three hours, but he gets in and out of this mess in less than two.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    If the first "Hangover" movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    Jaden is not ready for his solo spotlight, and the film is the same action over and over. Another bad movie from Shyamalan.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    If this is the best we can do in terms of movies - if something like this can speak to the soul of audiences - maybe we should just turn over the cameras and the equipment to the alien dinosaurs and see what they come up with.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The temptation arises to say something nice about Grown Ups 2 just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, too, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Mick LaSalle
    The To Do List is a romantic comedy with no romance and little comedy, but with an ugliness of spirit that's surprising and unrelenting.

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