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Here’s the highly anticipated film that almost put me to sleep
Finally, after 43 years, the film was edited and made its debut at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. The screening took place at the festival’s huge, plush theater, the Sala Grande, which hosts all the ...
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Why was ‘Midnight Cowboy’ X-rated while ‘Anora’ was only rated R?
Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about how much sex is necessary to a story and which time ...
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How can Maximus’ son be alive in ‘Gladiator II’? Here’s what you might’ve missed
Dear Mick LaSalle: Wait. How can Maximus’ son be alive (in “Gladiator II”)? Unless Lucius (Paul Mescal) is the love child of ...
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Which current stars will endure? A look at lasting entertainers
Dear Mick LaSalle: Your perfect description of (a laugh track as) “the delirious, mirthless laughter of jackals” was spot on ...
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Were we at our most impulsive as teenagers? Here's what film gets right about youth
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