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SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1: The sequel to the first Mesrine film, about the notorious French bank robber who kept police guessing for 20 years, can be likened to "Godfather Part II": longer, more political, more intricate, slightly less lovable than its...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Harry Brown If it were just a by-the-book vigilante movie, the spectacle of Michael Caine going around London as a modern-day Charles Bronson ("Death Wish") would have been satisfying. But this is much better than that, an exciting...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Going the Distance RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Romantic comedy. Starring Drew Barrymore, Justin Long and Christina Applegate. Directed by Nanette Burstein. (R. 102 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Romantic comedy is the fruit fly of movie genres, usually so caught...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
The Tillman Story RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Documentary. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev. (R. 94 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Eloquence is sometimes just a matter of having something real to say and saying it. By that standard, one of the most eloquent funeral...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Greetings Mr. LaSalle: What is your take on Kirk Douglas? I recently watched him as Vincent van Gogh in "Lust for Life" (1956) and in "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952) and thought the performances were scenery-chewing. Were these performances typical of his...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko hits the jackpot with this feature, about a gay marriage that becomes destabilized when the kids contact their sperm donor biological father (Mark Ruffalo). Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are both superb and...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Mesrine: Killer Instinct RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Crime drama. Starring Vincent Cassel, Gérard Depardieu and Cécile De France. Directed by Jean-François Richet. In French with English subtitles. (R. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Mesrine: Public Enemy No....
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Watching a Sam Fuller movie is like watching something made on another planet - but a planet where they really know how to make movies. Before the credits, there's a battle scene that's more tense, more realistic and more...
SFGate: Mick LaSalle
Dear Mick: Many people write in to castigate you for liking or not liking a particular movie. I think they do not understand critics. If you follow reviewers over time, you can usually figure out whether you tend to agree or disagree with them. Reviewers are...