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
1070 movie reviews
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    Superbad
    The movie is best when everything is up in the air.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Michael Sragow
    Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    It's an authentic, harrowing tale of heroism.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Plunges into an imaginative landscape as large as all creation - and never slackens its barreling pace or shrinks its panoramic scope.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Man on the Train
    Man on the Train may be a modest film, but it offers privileged glimpses of transcendence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    Boy A
    The genius of Garfield's performance is that he fills him with equal amounts of terror and wonder.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Sragow
    Lovely & Amazing
    Holofcenere genuinely wants to make pictures that plug into an audience's need for intimate contemporary comedies. But she doesn't do enough to quench that thirst.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    Knafayim Shvurot
    At its best, the movie combines the musical and psychological meanings of a fugue. Sons and daughters and mother take up themes of dislocation and identity loss, and deepen them at every turn.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Michael Sragow
    Sweet Land
    Once you get past the movie's needlessly fragmented framing device and its protracted introduction to a xenophobic rural Minnesota town, the core story gains some traction in your mind.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Michael Sragow
    Clean
    Nolte brings this movie a piece of his heart, and grants us peace.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Sragow
    Lost in La Mancha
    This documentary could have been a simple downer. Instead, it's a giddy, manic-depressive roller coaster - because it brings us eye to eye with Gilliam.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    An Inconvenient Truth
    Its knockout success is a testament to Gore's eloquence and humanity and to the dexterity of his director, Davis Guggenheim.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    Brilliant, brutally poignant.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Michael Sragow
    The Bourne Ultimatum
    Few films combine a dense and tingling atmosphere with the headlong pacing and adventure of The Bourne Ultimatum.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Shut Up & Sing
    The Dixie Chicks may never regain their prolonged eminence on the country charts. However, the art and entertainment value of this movie (and of their latest album) is off the charts in the best way.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    Enchanted
    The whole movie swings broadly from slapstick and mock suspense to song. But the film develops a strong amorous undertow; Kelly's script neatly allows for all the potential couples to get the fate or comeuppance they deserve.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Sragow
    Shrek 2
    There's no innocence left in Shrek 2. The helter-skelter story and throwaway gags emerge from a sensibility that confuses gossipy knowingness and jadedness with wit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Sragow
    Little Children
    Instead of being supple and expansive like the book, this Little Children is heavy-handed and snarky.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Sragow
    Eastern Promises
    Eastern Promises is intensely anti-dramatic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Fantasy, not honesty, is the point of The Kid Stays in the Picture.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Michael Sragow
    Startup.com
    The giddy excitement of Startup.com comes from feeling as if you're inside the bubble as it soars into the stratosphere - and pops.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Michael Sragow
    Harry Is Here to Help
    Critically lacks Highsmith's sixth sense for drawing you into the heart and soul of sociopaths, then jolting you with the realization that things are much worse even than they seem.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Sragow
    Roger Dodger
    Experiencing this film is like hurtling down a verbal slalom.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Michael Sragow
    Kitchen Stories
    By the end, Hamer's crisp, prickly compositions go soft.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Michael Sragow
    Catch Me If You Can
    Spielberg's inchoate attempts at cultural observation stretch the movie out and dilute the giddiness instead of adding a pleasurable spike. When the movie doesn't feel inflated, it feels soggy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    A Prairie Home Companion
    A down-home-exquisite musical dramedy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Michael Sragow
    About a Boy
    It's hard to stomp on a movie that pulls together a rich lay-about, hippies, a punk girl and an Amnesty International worker in a sort of Peaceable Kingdom, but About a Boy shows the limits of affability.
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Sragow
    In This World
    Without proclaiming itself a wake-up call for the West, In This World cries out for some new method of achieving international trust.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Michael Sragow
    Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Guerrilla provides one huge compensation: the getting of historical wisdom.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Sragow
    Peace Officer
    The engrossing documentary Peace Officer looks at the militarization of police work from a fresh, provocative angle.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Michael Sragow
    Waitress
    The movie is an inspired comedy-drama about artistic temperament.
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