Mick LaSalle
Movie Critic
The Chronicle
About this Author
Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 1985. He is the author of two books on pre-censorship Hollywood, "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood" and "Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man." Both were books of the month on Turner Classic Movies and "Complicated Women" formed the basis of a TCM documentary in 2003, narrated by Jane Fonda. He has written introductions for a number of books, including Peter Cowie's "Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star" (2009). He was a panelist at the Berlin Film Festival and has served as a panelist for eight of the last ten years at the Venice Film Festival. His latest book, a study of women in French cinema, is "The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses."
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Review: ‘The Oath’ is hard to watch, but one of the year’s best
October 17, 2018
Review: ‘Old Man & the Gun’ Redford’s perfect swan song
October 8, 2018
Dale Carnegie might as well have been talking about Tom Cruise
September 24, 2018
SNL’s Gilda Radner gets a sensitive, illuminating portrait in ‘Love, Gilda’
September 20, 2018
What’s there to like about that short Scientologist, Tom Cruise?
September 17, 2018