Mick LaSalle
Film Critic and Columnist at San Francisco Chronicle
Film critic for The SF Chronicle, author of COMPLICATED WOMEN, DANGEROUS MEN, THE BEAUTY OF THE REAL, and DREAM STATE: CALIFORNIA IN THE MOVIES (Heyday, 2021).
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Feb 5, 2025 |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Mick LaSalle
Amy Schumer in a scene from “Kinda Pregnant.” Photo: Spencer Pazer/NetflixThe key to any Amy Schumer comedy is how often she gets to play self-delusion, embarrassment, fear and rage. As long as the emotions, terrors and humiliations are big, she’s funny, and her latest, “Kinda Pregnant,” gives her lots of opportunities to be funny.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Mick LaSalle
Actor and director Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan of the San Francisco Police Department in the action film “Dirty Harry,” 1971. Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty ImagesDear Mick: As a filmmaker, Clint Eastwood is drawn to stories that are dark, troubling and morally ambiguous. I’m thinking specifically of “Tightrope,” “Unforgiven,” “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby.” Where in his work as a director do you think “Hereafter” fits in?
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Jan 31, 2025 |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Mick LaSalle
Kristen Stewart, left, and Steven Yeun in “Love Me.” Photo: Bleecker Street/TNSKristen Stewart almost saves “Love Me.” To see her here — that is, to see her comfortable in her own skin, her intense way of listening and the freshness of her reactions — as well as to hear the idiosyncratic truth of her line readings — is to be confronted by an extraordinary screen presence. She has the aura of someone about to do the best work of her life, but “Love Me” isn’t it.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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A man watches the flames from the Palisades Fire burning homes on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8 in Los Angeles. Photo: Apu Gomes/Getty ImagesRight now, we’re at the stage of the Los Angeles fire disaster where we’re worried about lives and property. We’re hearing about movie stars, like Mel Gibson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and John Goodman, losing their homes and about people neither rich nor famous who are also losing their homes.
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Season 3 of #WhiteLotus is a good example of plot without story, a series of ultimately meaningless incidents. The last episode revealed the show to have been an eight-hour waste of time. I'm sorry I watched. It was heading nowhere all along. #whitelotus3
