20 results for "Mick LaSalle"
Movie review: 'The Collection' offers a very poor reflection
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 12:00 AMThere's a bad movie every week, but it takes a special one to make you start thinking about the decline of Western civilization.
Movie review: 'Killing' builds parallels between finance, crime
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 12:00 AM"Killing Them Softly" draws a parallel between the world of street thugs and hit men and that of bankers and financiers, with a story about a crisis of confidence in a small gambling market in the fall of 2008.
Movie review: 'Waiting Room' awash in human drama
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 12:00 AMTo watch Peter Nicks' "The Waiting Room" is to wish it would never end. This is important to say at the outset, because any description of this documentary, about a day in the life of a hospital waiting room, might make it sound li...
Plenty of strings attached in 'A Late Quartet'
Friday, November 16, 2012 at 12:00 AMFour sedate, super-civilized musicians are thrown into a pressure cooker in "A Late Quartet," a drama whose measured veneer gives way to memorable and explosive moments.
Movie Review: Winstead breaks out in a taut 'Smashed'
Friday, November 2, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe act of going out there as an unknown and coming back a star is the time-honored showbiz fantasy, and if there's any justice that is about to come true for Mary Elizabeth Winstead on the basis of "Smashed."
Movie review: 'Mavericks' flounders under its own weight
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 12:00 AM"Chasing Mavericks" breaks through the clichés associated with surfer movies – the carefree beach party fantasies, the fake mysticism – and offers a portrait that has a lot more integrity.
Movie review:'Cloud Atlas' a solid try at the hugely ambitious
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 12:00 AMThere is something new going on in 21st century movies, a strain of films attempting to convey the entire experience of life in a single movie.
Movie review: The wit of 'Seven Psychopaths' is drowned out
Friday, October 12, 2012 at 12:00 AMCompared with other movies, "Seven Psychopaths" is clever and inventive enough to be considered a weak success or a modest failure, the kind of effort that usually gets damned with the faint praise of "not bad."
Movie Review: '2 Days in New York' an intelligent comedy trip
Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:00 AMJulie Delpy's second film as a director confirms the two best indications given by her first directorial effort, "2 Days in Paris" – that she has a gift for the wildly absurd and that she can direct herself.
Movie Review: 'Robot & Frank' may just steal your heart
Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:00 AMThere are so many ways a movie about a robot and an old man might have gone wrong. There are even more ways that a movie about a robot and an old man losing his memory might have gone wrong.
