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SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Dear Mick: I had almost forgiven you for your ridiculous review of "Click," and then I read your even more ridiculous review of "Valentine's Day." Shame on you! That movie was horrendous and insulted my intelligence on so many levels that I felt certain that...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
The release of the new movie "The Runaways," about the seminal all-girl band, takes me back to the mid-1970s, when there was lots of talk going around about the future of rock 'n' roll. Rock stars were getting old - turning 30, even 35 - and the art form was...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Ajami RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Starring Shahir Kabaha and Scandar Copti. Directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. (Not rated. 120 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Ajami" is an immersion into a very...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
The Hurt Locker: Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow gets into the head of adrenaline war junkies, in this study of a bomb-defusing unit in Iraq. Riveting. Also won best picture. At Bay Area...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Green Zone RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Starring Matt Damon, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan. Directed by Paul Greengrass. (R. 115 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Director Paul Greengrass is working his way through recent American history, but...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
In a David versus Goliath triumph, "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow's adventurous study of the warrior personality, picked up six Oscars at Sunday night's Academy Awards, beating out James Cameron's "Avatar" for best picture. For many, it was a victory of...
