Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun
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For 1,035 reviews, this critic has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Michael Sragow's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 64 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 594 out of 1035
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Mixed: 253 out of 1035
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Negative: 188 out of 1035
1,035
movie reviews
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Michael Sragow 100
The movie's triumph is that we experience the ending, in which the three girls go mostly separate ways, not as a defeat but as a transition still open to possibilities. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A marvelous picture and a highly unusual journey in and around the Holocaust. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Chicago is the zingiest, most inventive movie of its kind since "Cabaret." -
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Michael Sragow 100
Nolte's gambler-bandit Bob Montagnet is a triumph of imagination, touched with electric existential poetry. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It moves so confidently and brightly that it's ticklish as well as chilling - and, in its own dark way, enthralling. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Lumumba revives the tradition of Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers" and Costa-Gavras' "Z" and "State of Siege." In substance and excitement, it joins their ranks. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The result is harrowing and inspiring. As escapist entertainment, it's the movie of the year. -
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Michael Sragow 100
No Man's Land is a 98-minute wonder: this story of three men in a trench renews the meaning of the word "trenchant." -
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Michael Sragow 100
Roman Polanski's new movie may be the greatest historical film centered on an enigmatic character since Lawrence of Arabia. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A great, lusty movie in the tradition of Bertrand Blier's "Going Places." -
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Michael Sragow 100
It leaves you dazed and sated. Compared to the fast food "eye candy" surrounding it these days, Metropolis is a gourmet 20-course meal. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Dark Blue is one of those totally happy surprises that moves so quickly and curves so sharply that it leaves this era's hyped critical hits looking like beached whales. -
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Michael Sragow 100
In its own quiet, voluptuous way, Rivers and Tides, an unpretentiously brilliant documentary, uses the work of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy to open up the hidden drama of the natural universe. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A spellbinder of the rarest kind and quality. It opens audiences up to an infinite variety of emotional and intellectual nuances. -
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Michael Sragow 100
This thoroughly modern movie pulls off a classical feat. It elicits the searing combination of pity and terror that leaves a viewer feeling purged. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A movie masterpiece -- thrilling, passionate and wise. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It's still the Holy Grail of crazy comedy. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Man on the Train may be a modest film, but it offers privileged glimpses of transcendence. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A visual masterpiece about a scared little girl's breathtaking journey of self-discovery. All of the fun is getting there. -
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Michael Sragow 100
I love Rabbit-Proof Fence as drama, as protest, as moviemaking and as poetry. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Seabiscuit revives the sweeping pleasures of movies that address and respect the mass audience, raising the common denominator instead of pandering to it. This crowd-pleaser rouses honest and engulfing cheers. -
