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Michael Sragow

Deep Focus: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

By Michael Sragow
May 17, 2019
Dogged pursuit: buying a ticket to a John Wick movie is like signing away control of your lizard brain for 130 minutes

Interview: Juliet Taylor

By Michael Sragow
May 2, 2019
Woman of character: the legendary casting director on how her knack for sensing potential remained constant over her 50-year career

Deep Focus: Shazam!

By Michael Sragow
April 11, 2019
Kid's stuff: after decades of portentous superhero movies, a little frivolousness can be recharging

Deep Focus: Christ Stopped at Eboli

By Michael Sragow
April 3, 2019
Down to earth: in Francesco Rosi's political epic, an archetypal fish out of water comes to feel at home on very dry land

Deep Focus: The Mustang

By Michael Sragow
March 15, 2019
A man and his horse: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s first feature offers an uneven slice of life, cut with a shiv

Deep Focus: Captain Marvel

By Michael Sragow
March 8, 2019
Out of the blue: lacking a unifying vision and a charismatic star performance, the latest Marvel extravaganza is less a big-screen comic than a patchwork quilt.

Deep Focus: The Wedding Guest

By Michael Sragow
March 1, 2019
Soft boiled: Dev Patel acts with an electric wariness in Michael Winterbottom's otherwise flimsy thriller

Deep Focus: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

By Michael Sragow
February 22, 2019
Shangri La: Dean DeBlois’s elating cartoon trilogy finds paradise in a story of a boy, a girl, and their giant flying lizards

Deep Focus: Alita: Battle Angel

By Michael Sragow
February 15, 2019
These arms of mine: the comic-book adaptation is aces as spectacle, but stumbles in scenes about family, romance, and the souls of machines

Deep Focus: The Lincoln Cycle

By Michael Sragow
February 7, 2019
A flat circle: the 1917 series, screening February 9 in Film Comment Selects, spins tales from the life of The Great Emancipator

Deep Focus: Miss Bala

By Michael Sragow
February 1, 2019
A new glossy remake is the first feasible argument for our southern neighbor to pay for building a wall: to keep Hollywood hacks out of the country.

Deep Focus: Serenity

By Michael Sragow
January 25, 2019
The middle-aged man and the sea: A stellar cast and a froth of plot twists can't keep Steven Knight’s nutty noir afloat

Deep Focus: Buffalo Boys

By Michael Sragow
January 10, 2019
Fighting mad: two brothers take mighty vengeance on an imperialist villain in a kinetic Indonesian action adventure

Deep Focus: Welcome to Marwen

By Michael Sragow
January 4, 2019
Small soldiers: Robert Zemeckis reimagines the traumatized world of a Navy veteran who exorcises his demons through customized action figures

Deep Focus: Mary Poppins Returns

By Michael Sragow
December 20, 2018
Air show: the revisitation of classic material yields holiday delights and a delightful performance from Emily Blunt

Deep Focus: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

By Michael Sragow
December 14, 2018
Flat-out fun: the late superhero arrival to 2018 turns out to be deliciously entertaining

Deep Focus: Sicilian Ghost Story

By Michael Sragow
November 30, 2018
Woodland creatures: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s gritty fantasia Sicilian Ghost Story sets a Cosa Nostra kidnapping against a backdrop of expressive menace

Deep Focus: Anna and the Apocalypse

By Michael Sragow
November 21, 2018
School lunches: Anna and the Apocalypse puts a spring in the step of the old zombie song-and-dance

Deep Focus: Outlaw King

By Michael Sragow
November 9, 2018
Axe naturally: a 14th-century Scottish hero comes to the screen with grit and grime but not much gravity.

Deep Focus: A Private War

By Michael Sragow
November 2, 2018
First responder: a hard-charging journalist goes for broke in documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman's fiction feature debut