Have you ever had high expectations and anticipation for a film, either as a critic or a fan, and upon watching it felt utter disappointment? Steve Bage, Sausalito Hi, Steve: The best recent example ...

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about how much sex is necessary to a story and which time ...

Drop” is the kind of film that separates the real movie lover from the conditional movie lover. It is manipulative, fundamentally ridiculous, obvious, far-fetched, gut-level in its appeal and ...

If you haven’t seen the season finale of “The White Lotus,” be warned: This will contain spoilers. However, nothing could be a bigger letdown than the finale itself. After seven episodes that created ...

Adolescence” is probably the best movie out there, and it’s not even a movie. The new Netflix miniseries is about the arrest of a 13-year-old boy for murdering a fellow middle-school student, with ...

The Penguin Lessons” is based on a true story, in that it takes its inspiration from a memoir by Tom Michell, who rescued a penguin from an oil slick in Uruguay back in the early 1970s. But aside from ...

It’s just the movie star publicity tour thing that I find so ghastly. Dear Mick LaSalle: You wrote, “I assumed (Marni) Nixon ...