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Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking

Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only the worst director of the people who actually get to make movies. As we speak, there are human beings walking the Earth - perhaps as many as a half dozen of them - with less directorial talent, but they've been safely diverted into other activities.

Mick LaSalle
People, Guy, Directors
"Review: Weak Ritchie hurts 'Sherlock Holmes'" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. December 25, 2009.

Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.

Mick LaSalle
Doe, Looks, Bills
"Film review: 'Religulous' - comic on a crusade" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. October 3, 2008.

To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

Mick LaSalle
Drama, Thinking, Waiting Rooms

Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.

Mick LaSalle
Nuts, People, Perfect

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

Mick LaSalle
Treasure, France, Film
Mick LaSalle (2012). “The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses”, p.7, Stanford University Press

Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.

Mick LaSalle
Cheating, Baby, Husband
Mick LaSalle (2014). “Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood”, p.1, Macmillan

If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

Mick LaSalle
Drama, Hangover, Two

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