ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Sragow

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	Atonement
A+	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4	I Served the King of England
A-	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3.5/4	Ghost Town
B+	Charlie Wilson's War
3/4	Frozen River
B	The Kite Runner
2.5/4	Traitor
B-	The Great Debaters
C+	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
2/4	Baghead
C	I Am Legend
1.5/4	The Women
C-	There Will Be Blood
D+	10,000 B.C.
1/4	Choke
D	Never Back Down
F	Margot at the Wedding

BEST REVIEWED
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4/4	Rachel Getting Married
4/4	Happy-Go-Lucky
4/4	Trouble the Water
4/4	What Just Happened
4/4	Flash of Genius
4/4	I Served the King of England
A	Man On Wire
A+	The Edge of Heaven
A	American Teen
A	WALL-E
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	Death Race
F	The Strangers
f	CJ7
F	Margot at the Wedding
F	Good Luck Chuck
D-	Hot Rod
d-	Evan Almighty
D-	Georgia Rule
D	What Happens in Vegas
D	Deception
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

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2/4	" 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 Posted Nov 14, 2008	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	65%
2.5/4	" An entertaining mess full of jarring editing and artsy touches." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 14, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	66%
3/4	" Although the movie is unabashedly alarming, it's also intelligent fun." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 7, 2008	I.O.U.S.A. (2008)	92%
3.5/4	" A film whose blend of madcap exploits and generosity makes it both hilarious and endearing." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 7, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	59%
2.5/4	" The movie, like its unlikely heroes, has its pungent moments. At its best, it balances salt and sap." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 7, 2008	Role Models (2008)	75%
2.5/4	" When it succeeds, it's because of Mac and Jackson, two performers who give their all even when the material is measly." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Nov 7, 2008	Soul Men (2008)	44%
2.5/4	" Hounddog boasts a distinctive wood-and-emerald look and several crackerjack performances." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Hounddog (2008)	17%
4/4	" From one masterstroke after another, [Demme] builds a portrait of a resilient family. Yet nothing in it is studied or self-conscious. This director never sweats the small stuff. He treasures it." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
4/4	" British director Mike Leigh has made the first great comedy for our new depression." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)	94%
4/4	" Trouble the Water doesn't merely bring its characters to the edge of the abyss. It watches them fall in -- and then, amazingly, climb out." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Trouble the Water (2008)	98%
2.5/4	" The words are catchy and the beat keeps you awake, though all of it quickly fades." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
1/4	" [Smith] fails to wring any memorable comedy from shoestring porno filmmakers because his own filmmaking is just as amateurish and slovenly." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 31, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	64%
2.5/4	" It's not a great movie, but it is a beguiling one: a Gallic version of American films such as Doc Hollywood or Cars, in which a city-dweller opens up to life when he succumbs to the languid pace and the intense one-on-one relationships of the country." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Grocer's Son (2008)	89%
3.5/4	" The bristling New York cop movie Pride and Glory boasts more than A+ street smarts. It overflows with a combustible blend of street sensitivity and testosterone." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 24, 2008	Pride and Glory (2008)	34%
2/4	" The movie goes on too long. Viewers are already up and clogging the aisles by the time Ortega brings the principals back for a final bow." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 24, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
1/4	" Choke gives sexual anarchy a bad name." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 18, 2008	Choke (2008)	56%
2.5/4	Click here to read article -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 18, 2008	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	82%
C+	Click here to read article -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 18, 2008	Get Smart (2008)	53%
4/4	" De Niro holds this film together, not with bluster or dynamism, but with humanity. In revealing the weakness of a man who lives by the exercise of power, he restores his strength as an actor and makes you care beyond measure for what just happened." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 17, 2008	What Just Happened (2008)	51%
1.5/4	" Andy Samberg's imitation of Marky Mark as Barky Bark is vastly more amusing than Wahlberg's latest action vehicle." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 17, 2008	Max Payne (2008)	18%
1.5/4	" Although Stone has gone out of his way to say that he has treated Bush as a figure to be understood, not simply pilloried, the movie plays like a dunk-the-clown game at a carnival." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 17, 2008	W. (2008)	57%
2/4	" The problem isn't the history that the filmmakers leave in, but how much they leave out." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Duchess (2008)	61%
2.5/4	" It's lumpy, odd and tonally all over the place, but its vision gets to you, and its payoff delivers a tough kid's catharsis." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	48%
2.5/4	" Rob Brown brings off the most difficult task. As Davis, he crafts a persuasive performance of that unusual figure in movies: a genuinely good man." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 10, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
3/4	" DiCaprio helps turn what could have been a dry-as-sand Middle Eastern thriller into a compelling suspense film that questions the ethics of espionage and counterterrorism without turning sanctimonious or screedlike." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 10, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	50%
3.5/4	" The movie brings back the danger and the humane humor of strong, silent men of action." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Appaloosa (2008)	75%
4/4	" Out of such plain materials as a windshield wiper, an inventor and a courtroom trial, Abraham has made one of the most original and memorable American movies of the year." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
2.5/4	" Don't expect anything too tart and tingly from this long night's stumble into romance." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)	72%
3.5/4	" Comedian Bill Maher brings his disarmingly direct humor to the topic of religion in Religulous. The results are often as surprising as they are funny." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Oct 3, 2008	Religulous (2008)	71%
4/4	" Working from a novel and script by Bohumil Hrabal, director Jiri Menzel again achieves a seriocomic triumph, as he did with his Oscar-winning 1966 adaptation of Hrabal's Closely Watched Trains." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 26, 2008	I Served the King of England (2008)	80%
3/4	" What gives these episodes cumulative impact is the group portrait that emerges of a well-meaning country in a state of drift." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 26, 2008	The Lucky Ones (2008)	33%
2.5/4	" Eagle Eye has half an idea in its head, but over two hours there's no time to complete or explore it, since the movie isn't just a chase but a combination steeplechase and destruction derby." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 26, 2008	Eagle Eye (2008)	27%
1.5/4	" It's very neat, and I don't mean that as a compliment." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 26, 2008	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	31%
3/4	" For all his excesses and wrong turns, Lee has made a grown-up movie with an adult sense of loss and an adult sense of hope. He may be addicted to broad flourishes, but he has the big emotions to back them up." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 26, 2008	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	33%
3/4	" In Chanu, it creates an indelible protagonist. He thinks he is a man of ideas. He is a man who, when it counts, is full of common sense and uncommon feeling." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 19, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	65%
3/4	" The genius of Garfield's performance is that he fills him with equal amounts of terror and wonder." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 19, 2008	Boy A (2008)	89%
1.5/4	" The film quickly exhausts its prickly humor and blows everything it has to say about class and generation gaps and race." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
3.5/4	" *The fun of Ghost Town* starts with the title and doesn't end until the final line.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Sep 19, 2008	Ghost Town (2008)	84%
1.5/4	" Righteous Kill is one of those excruciating trick movies that is proud of its pseudo-cleverness." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 12, 2008	Righteous Kill (2008)	22%
2.5/4	" The script is clever and would be brilliant if it worked." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 12, 2008	Burn After Reading (2008)	78%
1.5/4	" *This Women* doesn't take place in reality or even in a glamorous urban fantasyland. It's strictly TV Land.*" -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Women (2008)	13%
3/4	" A solid, satisfying movie." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 5, 2008	Frozen River (2008)	86%
2/4	" The co-directors and co-writers, Jay and Mark Duplass, appear to be saying, 'Hey, we are the new emperors of the independent cinema. And guess what? We have no clothes.'" -- Baltimore Sun Posted Sep 5, 2008	Baghead (2008)	78%
2.5/4	" When a director can't fulfill his obligations to his genre, he doesn't win the confidence he needs to lead an audience into higher terrain." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 26, 2008	Traitor (2008)	56%
B	" For a chamber drama it's unusually spacious and well-populated. Three supporting relationships are brilliantly limned." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 22, 2008	Elegy (2008)	74%
B+	" The glory of this movie is that its quality of silliness is not strained." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 22, 2008	Hamlet 2 (2008)	62%
F	" *In movies like The Bank Job, Jason Statham has shown the potential to be a British Steve McQueen, but he'll never get the chance if he keeps making gobblers like Death Race." -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Aug 22, 2008	Death Race (2008)	42%
B+	" What makes the movie ineluctably compelling is Argento's fire in the title role." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 15, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
C	" *If you want some real poetry about wine, rent Sideways." -- Baltimore Sun* Posted Aug 15, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	45%
C+	" Henry Poole script has no splash." -- Baltimore Sun Posted Aug 15, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	34%

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