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Michael Sragow

Deep Focus: Mid90s

By Michael Sragow
October 25, 2018
Skate kids: Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with a sensitively observed, modestly conceived story of a skateboarder just growin' up

Deep Focus: First Man

By Michael Sragow
October 11, 2018
Mooning about: Damien Chazelle gives us a nobly suffering Neil Armstrong in an outwardly nervy but fundamentally cautious account of the lunar landing

Deep Focus: The Old Man & the Gun

By Michael Sragow
September 27, 2018
Exit strategy: Robert Redford attempts another elegant swan song as a bank robber in David Lowery’s sentimental caper

Deep Focus: The Sisters Brothers

By Michael Sragow
September 21, 2018
Wild frontiers: Jacques Audiard goes West with John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix and brings back gold

Deep Focus: White Boy Rick

By Michael Sragow
September 14, 2018
Dependence: director Yann Demange gets inside the workings of a complicated family through an undercover drug drama

Deep Focus: John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

By Michael Sragow
September 6, 2018
Permanent matchpoint: a film assembled from 16mm footage posits the volatile genius of a temperamental tennis star

Deep Focus: Operation Finale

By Michael Sragow
August 24, 2018
Rendered to justice: the incredible story of Adolph Eichmann’s capture in Argentina keeps getting undermined by the filmmaker’s faulty vision

Deep Focus: Crazy Rich Asians

By Michael Sragow
August 17, 2018
High stakes: the energetic comedic romance tracks a woman who follows love but must reckon with the codes and cliques of the elite

Deep Focus: A Prayer Before Dawn

By Michael Sragow
August 9, 2018
Jailhouse schlock: faces and bodies get smashed in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s prison drama, but audience hearts are left untouched

Deep Focus: Christopher Robin

By Michael Sragow
August 3, 2018
Flies in the honeypot: the world of A. A. Milne collides with grownup realities in a new screen portrayal

Deep Focus: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

By Michael Sragow
July 26, 2018
Can-do attitude: the latest entry in the action franchise wrings some more suspense out of its espionage hijinks

Deep Focus: Fred & Ginger

By Michael Sragow
July 12, 2018
Lighter than air: Astaire and Rogers have still got it after all these years, as proven in Film Society’s new complete retrospective

Deep Focus: Ant-Man and the Wasp

By Michael Sragow
July 5, 2018
The sting: Peyton Reed and Paul Rudd keep the spark alive in the latest story about the size-shifting superhero

Deep Focus: Sicario: Day of the Soldado

By Michael Sragow
June 28, 2018
Everybody knows: no one is spared the physical and moral brutality of dirty warfare in the cartel thriller follow-up

Deep Focus: The King

By Michael Sragow
June 22, 2018
Don’t be cruel: Eugene Jarecki’s culture-history doc puts Elvis Presley to work as an American symbol, but not in the way you’d expect

Deep Focus: Incredibles 2

By Michael Sragow
June 15, 2018
Superqualified: Brad Bird brings giddily elaborate motion and detail to a smartly written sequel

Interview: Kevin Brownlow

By Michael Sragow
June 14, 2018
Eyewitness news: the pioneering filmmaker and scholar talks about the conundrum of re-creation, doing justice to the silents, and chatting with Kubrick

Deep Focus: Hotel Artemis

By Michael Sragow
June 7, 2018
Checked out: Drew Pearce’s high-concept hospital for super-criminals is pretty vacant

Deep Focus: Les Parents terribles

By Michael Sragow
May 25, 2018
Mother's favorite: Jean Cocteau's symphony of dysfunction has its U.S. premiere theatrical run

Deep Focus: Deadpool 2

By Michael Sragow
May 17, 2018
Better the second time around: Ryan Reynolds’s foul-mouthed, capeless superhero is true to the comic’s pleasurable, pulpy origins