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MICHAEL SRAGOW
PUBLICATION(S)
• Baltimore Sun
• New Times
• Salon.com

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Total Reviews: 282

CRITICS GROUP(S)
National Society of Film Critics


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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%
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2.5/4
 
" An entertaining mess full of jarring editing and artsy touches." -- Baltimore Sun
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Quantum of Solace (2008)66%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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2.5/4
 
" Hounddog boasts a distinctive wood-and-emerald look and several crackerjack performances." -- Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 31, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)17%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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%
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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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