Michael Sragow
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52% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points higher than other critics.
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Michael Sragow's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 65 | |
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Highest review score: | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | |
Lowest review score: | CJ7 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 617 out of 1062
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Mixed: 257 out of 1062
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Negative: 188 out of 1062
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- Michael Sragow
The writer-director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close-knit Iranian Jewish community.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 25, 2015
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- Michael Sragow
The engrossing documentary Peace Officer looks at the militarization of police work from a fresh, provocative angle.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 17, 2015
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- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 17, 2015
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- Michael Sragow
In The Last Samurai, the body count is almost as high as the dead-brain-cell count.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
The union of thought and feeling becomes flesh and blood thanks to four brilliant performers in Iris.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
The combination of 3-D photography and puppet-animation - centered on actual figures designed by hand and manipulated frame by frame - creates a world that's dense, active and fluid: a sensory Jacuzzi.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
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.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
Strangers With Candy -- a perfect title -- is filled with straight-faced loonies. It's a nutcake you actually want to eat.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
On screen, Road to Perdition becomes a lace-curtain shoot-'em-up about fathers and sons. The graphic novel is more kinetic and more powerful than the motion picture.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
These actors have a firm playful grasp and a palpable affection for their characters' befuddled dignity and attraction. They understand what Wilde meant by the importance of being earnest.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
A third of the way through Smart People, I channeled Randy Newman's "Short People" and thought, "Smart people got no reason to live."- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
As the movie rambles along with its own brand of quasi-magical surrealism, the links to real experience grow scarcer and more frayed.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
The movie's sweetness, wit and charm go beyond its can't-we-all-just-get-along premise.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
It's about as much fun for the viewer as being dropped into a virtual-reality version of a highway-safety crash film. Hall writes and directs with the finesse of a rusty hatchet.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
This film about fierce competition among classic video-game players is a comic action epic in documentary form. It captures fear -- and heroism -- in a handful of dusty video games.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
The movie plays like a dunk-the-clown game at a carnival. Through intent or ineptitude, he sets up the Bush family and administrations as caricatures.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
Gripping footage about the controversial Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, which transmits news to 40 million Arabs. But the movie offers neither lucid analyses of the channel nor probing portraits of its journalists.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
Despite these flaws, people sick of gross-out films and teen-sex comedy may be so hungry for farce that they laugh.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
If you have an ounce of romance in you, you'll sense your own inner Captain Blood emerge when Captain Shakespeare turns him into a dashing figure with a dangerous sword.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
S.W.A.T. may be an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics, but by the end of this routine melodrama, it might as well stand for Standard Whacking and Trashing.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
A rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage parts, it's a rare kind of American movie.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
This film's playful visual language pulls you in rather than shuts you out; it isn't difficult to decipher, and it enables Coppola and his editor, Walter Murch, to navigate the story's many realms with a directness and dexterity that are refreshing.- Baltimore Sun
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- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
Until the final shot, the movie keeps you wondering how it will turn out.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
You may find Va Savoir pleasant to sit through, but will it stay with you the next morning? Who knows?- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
A smart comedy about a smart blonde -- that would be a sensation. But a dumb comedy about a smart blonde turns out to be not bad.- Baltimore Sun
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- Michael Sragow
This whole movie has zero chemistry. Broderick and Hunt are a match made in hell; Firth and Hunt are a match made in limbo.- Baltimore Sun
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- Baltimore Sun
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