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.
(0-100 point scale)
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 100
Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The movie grows richer as it goes along and contrasting pieces click together. -
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Michael Sragow 100
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. -
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Michael Sragow 100
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. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The movie pays tribute to sexual equality and to each gender's agility and strength of character. -
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Michael Sragow 100
One happy surprise after another, even when the content is bittersweet or sad. -
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Michael Sragow 100
A thriller from the inside out, a romance from the outside in: that's the double-edged brilliance of The Constant Gardener. -
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Michael Sragow 100
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. -
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Michael Sragow 100
You go to Good Night, and Good Luck expecting inspiration, and you get it. It's also unexpectedly subtle, tense, and challenging, complex both in its take on its subject and in its craftsmanship. So the movie brings you to your feet - and, at times, to tears. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Park's imagination is as fecund as the bunnies that bob up and down from their rabbit holes in every corner of the Tottington garden. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It gives you such an intense hit of creativity that afterward you may find yourself trying to jete out of the theater and into the street. -
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Michael Sragow 100
What Phoenix and Witherspoon accomplish in this movie is transcendent. They act with every bone and inch of flesh and facial plane, and each tone and waver of their voice. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Overflowing with comedy and drama, The Boys of Baraka unfolds on the mean streets of Baltimore and in the wide-open spaces of Kenya. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Plunges into an imaginative landscape as large as all creation - and never slackens its barreling pace or shrinks its panoramic scope. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It's a topical, iconoclastic documentary with the warmth and pace of a first-rate personal essay. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The result is a performance film that conjures a vision of American life as moving, funny and rueful as John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The offhand wit and casual self-revelation of Johnston's best words draw you deeper into the mysteries of his character. Feuerzeig is a music-lover to his bones. -
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Michael Sragow 100
There's no cheap uplift to their victory, no pop catharsis. What's great about United 93 is that you never feel it's just a movie - even though, as a movie, it's terrific. -
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Michael Sragow 100
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu runs the same 2 1/2 hours as "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," but what a difference a comic-dramatic purpose makes. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Lasseter's inclusive, utterly distinctive sensibility makes Cars all that it can be. His embrace of the comic-dramatic friction between innovation and tradition infiltrates every aspect of the movie - the look, the characters, the story. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Its knockout success is a testament to Gore's eloquence and humanity and to the dexterity of his director, Davis Guggenheim. -
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Michael Sragow 100
It's an experience that blows your mind, clears it and educates it. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Heading South is a hydra-headed love story, as dangerous as it is heated and complex. -
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Michael Sragow 100
You won't see a brighter, truer affirmation of the All-American messed-up improvisational family than Little Miss Sunshine. -
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Michael Sragow 100
This movie is both sad and inspiring. It offers proof that Lennon's wit and art are everlasting. -
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Michael Sragow 100
Mirren brings intellect, humor and romance to the role of Elizabeth II. -
