Michael Sragow

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Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker
For 1,070 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Sragow's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Sea Inside
Lowest review score: 0 CJ7
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 623 out of 1070
  2. Mixed: 259 out of 1070
  3. Negative: 188 out of 1070
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Spanglish
    As a romance, Spanglish is like a wholesome flirt who drags things out and becomes a tiresome tease. As a satire of upper-middle-class Los Angeles, it's a disaster.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 0 Michael Sragow
    Waist Deep
    It's about as much fun for the viewer as being dropped into a virtual-reality version of a highway-safety crash film. Hall writes and directs with the finesse of a rusty hatchet.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    W.
    The movie plays like a dunk-the-clown game at a carnival. Through intent or ineptitude, he sets up the Bush family and administrations as caricatures.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Rat Race
    Despite these flaws, people sick of gross-out films and teen-sex comedy may be so hungry for farce that they laugh.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    S.W.A.T.
    S.W.A.T. may be an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics, but by the end of this routine melodrama, it might as well stand for Standard Whacking and Trashing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    The Science of Sleep
    You have to identify pretty strongly with suffering artistes to find anything to root for in The Science of Sleep.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Open Range
    Without Duvall, this movie would be as wet as Waterworld.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    All About Steve
    Bullock does her damndest to be nerdy and instead becomes excruciatingly artificial - a malfunctioning verbal fun machine.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    House of Wax
    Barf-bag baroque.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    The Passion of the Christ
    Gibson mounts a convincing crucifixion, but his victim is the audience. The Passion of the Christ aims its metallic cat-o'-nine-tails at the viewers' nerves.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    The Safety of Objects
    The Safety of Objects is just another stilted comic-dramatic essay examining the mold in the white bread.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Made
    Made is an amateur-hour buddy movie.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Keeping Mum
    The movie is a premise in search of a comedy. Rather than flesh it out, the filmmakers put familiar glad rags on the skull and bones.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 16 Michael Sragow
    Hot Rod
    The filmmakers lack any visual sense of humor and any talent for sustaining long-form comedy; the stunts have less wallop than a TV bloopers show and the Oedipal family slapstick goes around in circles, in more ways than one.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 0 Michael Sragow
    The Strangers
    All it offers is sadism, impure and simple.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Monster-in-Law
    Jane Fonda coming back to the screen after a decade-and-a-half absence in Monster-in-Law is like Brando returning from the dead to star in a Police Academy movie.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Never Back Down
    Reprehensible.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Not since Rocky II has there been a more blatant attempt to recapitulate a box-office hit without adding any new attraction or appeal.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Memento
    The dramatic content in Memento is as blank as Leonard's post-traumatic mental state.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Michael Sragow
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past displays nary a wisp of life, let alone an afterlife.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Clockstoppers
    Not enough to keep Clockstoppers from turning viewers into clock-watchers.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    How does an embarrassment of riches turn into mere embarrassment?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Sylvia
    Never persuasively dramatize the agony, ecstasy and intricacy of composing poetry. Without that aesthetic component, all you see is that Plath's hunger for life couldn't compete with her death wish.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    It's hard to know what these stars are ready for after this fiasco. Maybe a fitness video.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Gods and Generals
    Pious, high-minded and bad history.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Michael Sragow
    Bride & Prejudice
    The comedy of manners becomes strictly a comedy of bad manners.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Bewitched
    Forget chemistry: There's no biology to the star casting.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Ocean's Twelve
    You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Cinderella Man
    There's no irony within the film, but there's a whopping irony surrounding it. Just as Star Wars has finally ended, Rocky seems to be starting all over again.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Michael Sragow
    Enough
    Manipulates the audience.
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