Mick LaSalle

“Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes” examines the cult leader’s failed music career, manipulation of followers and the mythology surrounding his crimes.

ASK MICK: Chronicle movie critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about the best movies released during the COVID pandemic, Tippi Hedren and which movies make him emotional.

With evil figures from history, it's often possible to find some scrap of the charm or force that allowed them to exert power over others.

The gripping Cold War drama dramatizes the first summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

ASK MICK: Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about whether younger generations can understand the struggles expressed in movies from earlier eras.

A forgotten poet suddenly finds himself celebrated decades later in Kent Jones’s latest film.

Contributor Young people using mobile phone in public underground train.

Contributor “The Whisper Man” stars Adam Scott as a father who gets help from his estranged father, a broken ex-cop, when his son goes missing.

Contributor “Waterloo Bridge” (1940) Dear Mick: I am an old lady of 91, and I have old-lady melodramatic romantic tastes.

Contributor American flags fly at half-mast in the Netflix documentary “Turning Point: Generation 9/11.”