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 5.1 points higher than other critics.
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Michael Sragow's Scores
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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 38
The movie gives us a time machine that resembles a twin-engined Mixmaster and a script that was tossed together inside one. -
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Michael Sragow 38
The surprise behind Town and Country isn't that the director started filming without a finished script, but that he ever thought he had the start of one. -
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Michael Sragow 38
The dramatic content in Memento is as blank as Leonard's post-traumatic mental state. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Hanks tries his hand at a king-size heartless comic role, and flubs it terribly. He looks slack and pasty and, what's worse, sounds slack and pasty. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Like Adam Sandler's "Mr. Deeds," this is a hybrid, hipster-cornball movie that wants to celebrate common folk but unapologetically uses words like "trailer trash" to describe them. -
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Michael Sragow 38
By the end, this movie's balancing act is the equivalent of network news' equal-time laws. The "fairness" becomes deadening. -
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Michael Sragow 38
It has graceful layers and folds and a nice swing to it, and Jackson moves superbly in it. Unfortunately, I'm talking about the kilt, not the movie. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Ends up neither fish nor fowl. It's a misanthrope's "E.T." -
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Michael Sragow 38
The biggest crime of Van Helsing is that it resurrects classic monsters and fails to make them scary. With a full 132 minutes of feeble jokes and gimcrack phantasmagoria, it's not spine-tingling - it's butt-numbing. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Wonderland marks a "biopic" first: Moviegoers will know less about the real-life subject going out than they did going in. -
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Michael Sragow 38
If you put the word Tired first, it would perfectly describe the movie. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Beyond Borders keeps angling for a peace prize; it might have won more hearts and minds if it came together as a movie. -
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Michael Sragow 38
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. -
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Michael Sragow 38
This new version may be closer to the Cole Porter biography, but it's hardly any more true to life. There is no life in this movie. It's a brittle contraption of a biopic. -
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Michael Sragow 38
Most of the film is one big blooper reel. There's not enough of a gap between the rejects and the finished movie. -
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Michael Sragow 38
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. -
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Michael Sragow 38
You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen. -
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Michael Sragow 38
You won't believe the story director George Clooney and his goofball TV host are trying to sell. Really. -
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Michael Sragow 33
Was the Swedish director, Mikael Hafstrom, taking revenge on the American star system? -
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Michael Sragow 33
The surefire laugh-getter centers on using a tampon to stop a nosebleed. Watching this movie, I had to hope it could stop brain-drain. -
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Michael Sragow 33
The second movie, Dead Man's Chest, is everything you feared the first would be: a theme-park spectacle lasting 2 1/2 hours. -
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Michael Sragow 33
If you're not a fan of M. Night Shyamalan's convoluted, teasing thrillers, you'll find that getting into this movie is like cracking a puzzle in which the constructor keeps breaking his own rules or grabbing new ones from ultra-thin air. -
