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 88
Although it's in the same genre as "The English Patient," it's a vastly better movie --more surprising and original, more rigorous and sympathetic. This film is oddly shaped. It is also heartbreaking and exhilarating. -
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Michael Sragow 88
It's sometimes said that the greatest test of a chef is cooking something cheap and simple, like a piece of chicken or a hamburger. In a movie that testifies to simple pleasures, Taylor and company pass that test again and again. -
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Michael Sragow 88
This picture is jagged and exciting; it tells several plots imperfectly, yet makes them add up to a great American story about integrity challenged and triumphant. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Italian for Beginners, on its own small scale, is a one-of-a-kind movie: a baggy-pants spiritual comedy. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Turns the kleig lights around to produce a wry and dead-on commentary on the film industry and the journalists who cover it. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Isn't an act of expiation but a gift of understanding. -
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Michael Sragow 88
In its peak moments, the movie delivers, all at once, genuine street wisdom and psychology and wrenching expressions of family and friendship. -
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Michael Sragow 88
What a relief to see a movie in which an audience responds with peals of laughter to subtle facial shifts as well as punch lines. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Greengrass and his tremendously smart and emotionally agile lead actor, James Nesbitt, paint their portrait of a good politician without illusion or sentimentality. -
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Michael Sragow 88
A dizzying - sometimes frustrating - marvel of moviemaking instinct and ingenuity. -
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Michael Sragow 88
As the sequence builds, it accretes so many heroic and nightmarish associations it plays like a prelude to apocalypse, which of course will come in Episode III. Attack of the Clones is part soda pop, part witches' brew - and all visual ambrosia. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Captures the feel of a first-rate comic book. It puts the pop back into Pop Art: It blows viewers away with a blast of kinetic energy. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Screwball farce, romance, domestic tragicomedy and literary frolic rolled into one. -
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Michael Sragow 88
A computer-animated burlesque fairy tale that generates more belly laughs than any live-action comedy since "Best in Show." -
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Michael Sragow 88
L’Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Hotel) is unexpectedly entertaining because it captures the point in young adulthood when life is unseriously serious, or maybe seriously unserious. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Without proclaiming itself a wake-up call for the West, In This World cries out for some new method of achieving international trust. -
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Michael Sragow 88
The Station Agent has craft and pace and that far rarer quality, fellow-feeling. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Gloriously funky in the good old meaning of the term. Its vulgarity may be offensive, but it's also pungent and real, and it fuels some ferocious humor. -
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Michael Sragow 88
This picture boasts a story about a yarn-spinning Southern father (Albert Finney) and a sober-sided son (Billy Crudup) that gives it ballast and staying power beyond anything in previous, precious Burton fables like "Edward Scissorhands" or "Ed Wood." -
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Michael Sragow 88
A Slipping-Down Life may be low-key, but if you enter its unique atmosphere, you will leave exhilarated. -
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Michael Sragow 88
A near-great British neo-noir, harsh yet hypnotic. Its psychological vortex can suck you in and leave you reeling. -
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Michael Sragow 88
To discover why movie fans are screaming for more Will Ferrell, and to savor the work of improv wizards like Carell, go see Anchorman. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Lightning in a Bottle has breadth, both in its multitude of perspectives and its spectrum of performances. -
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Michael Sragow 88
The glory of the movie is Depp, who achieves his own immortality. -
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Michael Sragow 88
Guerrilla provides one huge compensation: the getting of historical wisdom. -
