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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Heading South
    Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Spirited Away
    A visual masterpiece about a scared little girl's breathtaking journey of self-discovery. All of the fun is getting there.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    It Might Get Loud
    You'll never see a more tactile expression of the intimacy between artists and their instruments than in Davis Guggenheim's elating It Might Get Loud.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Shattered Glass
    A moral, not a moralistic, movie. It's also a bracing aesthetic achievement, creating a fictional version of a factual case that illuminates as it entertains.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    American Teen
    The documentary American Teen is the most realistic movie you will see all summer.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Army of Shadows
    A masterpiece.
    • 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.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Killer of Sheep
    Killer of Sheep is a miracle movie because it's receiving its first theatrical release 30 years after it was made and because, as a movie, it's miraculous.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    All or Nothing
    An exhilarating movie about sadness and renewal.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Sea Inside
    The Sea Inside brings us outside and inside ourselves, and takes us to brave new aesthetic depths.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    The movie grows richer as it goes along and contrasting pieces click together.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Howl's Moving Castle
    Howl's Moving Castle is one animated epic that has it all: poetic intensity, potent storytelling, vivid and surprising characters, and intoxicating powers of visual imagination.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Rachel Getting Married
    Hathaway carries you on an emotional whirligig that can be horrifying and funny, hopeful and devastating.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
    One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Venus
    Venus is a magnificent tribute to actors by filmmakers who know they are the essential human material of theater and the screen.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    The Prisoner of Azkaban is to Harry Potter what that other No. 3, "Goldfinger," was to James Bond: the movie that takes the invention and gamesmanship of the series to a whole new giddy peak.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Lantana
    Voluptuous dance about love, pain and the whole damn thing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    March of the Penguins
    The movie pays tribute to sexual equality and to each gender's agility and strength of character.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Junebug
    One happy surprise after another, even when the content is bittersweet or sad.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    A glorious medieval war movie. It's about war as the ultimate pitch of conflict that tries men's souls, and women's, too.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Battle of Algiers
    The movie is a marvel - bold, lucid and succinct (even at 123 minutes). It's also harrowing and moving in its depiction of noncombatant men, women and children caught between terrorism and counter-terrorism.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Trouble the Water
    Enraging and inspiring. It boasts the miraculous quality of finding a letter in a bottle and discovering that its authors are alive.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Queen
    Mirren brings intellect, humor and romance to the role of Elizabeth II.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    The Innocents
    Thanks to Kerr's eloquent tremor of a performance, when the heroine witnesses apparitions, they're immediately credible to the audience. [29 May 2009, p.1C]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    The title captures this film's harrowing qualities, but not its energy, its limpid beauty or its spiritual grace.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Capote
    Just when you might give up on young American film directors making art the way Bergman and Kurosawa did, along comes Bennett Miller's quiet, tumultuous Capote.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Gomorrah
    For Americans, Gomorrah will play like every other Mafia epic - and no other Mafia epic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    Deep Blue
    Deep Blue is pure bliss. This documentary about ocean life in all its forms achieves its own tidal pull with visual marvels that conjure a Darwinian delirium.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    One Last Kiss
    Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Michael Sragow
    No End in Sight
    If any movie can rid Americans of "Iraq war fatigue," it's Charles Ferguson's muscular documentary No End in Sight.
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