Mick LaSalle Articles

Paul Greengrass-Matt Damon’s GREEN ZONE Reviews "Similarly, Green Zone comes off as a picture made by a person with a brain as well as a conscience, though the movie’s big flaw may be its unblinking insistence that we’ve been lied to — you don’t have to read too much between the lines to see how adamant Greengrass is about that fact, though he isn’t telling [...]

Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right) Mike LaSalle on Norma Shearer: "Shearer was at her best in the [...]

A couple of good ones from Mick LaSalle, one of the best film critics around, in the San Francisco Chronicle: Answering a question about what will be considered the early 21st century’s "best political allegories" on film: "It depends on who wins the future. That’s the hardest thing to predict because we tend to imagine the future’s relationship with us to be like the present’s [...]