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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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 33
By the end, it doesn't even have the courage of its political incorrectness. -
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Michael Sragow 33
A movie made at wits' end. There are four or five authentic laughs in the whole 170-minute extravaganza. -
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Michael Sragow 33
Is there anything more pathetic than a movie that will do anything for a laugh or a tear that doesn't get any laughs or tears? -
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Michael Sragow 33
It's as if all the digital tools of new millennial filmmaking fell into the hands of men who had less storytelling sense than a campfire bard or a cave painter. -
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Michael Sragow 25
In this film, Soderbergh appears to judge the actors by how well they spew or swallow bile. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Pleasantly meanders around a group of people who pitch projects and pitch woo on the Riviera. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Collateral Damage isn't jingoistic; it also isn't exciting. It's a depressed rabble-rouser. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Too bad you can see this sort of thing done more amusingly every week on ABC-TV and Comedy Central. -
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Michael Sragow 25
So witless it wins most of its laughs when Czech-speaking characters spout obscenities that get translated into English subtitles. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Takes a literary milestone of ambiguity and makes everything about it blisteringly obvious. -
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Michael Sragow 25
To top it off, the ending is a clumsy cheat. Of course, I was rooting for the news gal to expire and the film to die a quick death. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Avary has taken a pig's ear of a book and turned it into a pig's ear of a movie. -
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Michael Sragow 25
There's something junior varsity about the whole sensibility that makes the new version seem more dated than the old one. -
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Michael Sragow 25
By the end, Pootie Tang feels as long as Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp." -
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Michael Sragow 25
Life as a House mounts a brutally insensitive attack on its audience's sensitivities. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Adam Sandler does Frank Capra wrong. His unfunny remake stomps all over the honest values and endearing qualities of the original. -
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Michael Sragow 25
The Emperor's Club is a beautiful fraud -- as gracefully proportioned as a Christopher Wren academy, yet as devoid of content as a prep-school promo film. -
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Michael Sragow 25
The only way sober adults will keep awake is wondering how the lead mobsters on "The Sopranos" -- who also are amateur film critics -- will rank the movie next year on HBO. -
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Michael Sragow 25
To call Death to Smoochy satire -- or parody, burlesque, or even lampoon -- would be too generous. The moviemakers merely glide on the thin ice of yesterday's cynicism. -
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Michael Sragow 25
The collateral damage of action products like Ballistic is to the sensibility of the audience. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Fails to meld suspense and farce or to bring even the wildest pursuits and smash-ups any visual sense of comedy. -
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Michael Sragow 25
Not enough to keep Clockstoppers from turning viewers into clock-watchers. -
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Michael Sragow 25
A brain-dead buddy-movie tearjerker with semi-tasteful romance and tasteful gore mixed in with the derring-do. -
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Michael Sragow 25
The film is so busy that every minute is exhausting. It's as if the filmmakers were idealistic teen-agers afflicted with a group case of Attention Deficit Disorder. -
