Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Michael Sragow

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

Deep Focus: Tully

By Michael Sragow
May 4, 2018
Wear and tear: Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s latest collaboration offers a comedic look at the fatigue of motherhood and unmet expectations

Deep Focus: Disobedience

By Michael Sragow
April 26, 2018
Faithful lovers: Sebastian Lelio’s tale of a forbidden love inside an Orthodox Jewish community sometimes gets lost in a fog

Deep Focus: The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka

By Michael Sragow
April 19, 2018
Handmade tales: the Czech wizard of stop-motion animation gets his due with the first complete U.S. retrospective

Deep Focus: Big Fish & Begonia

By Michael Sragow
April 6, 2018
Reeling us in: an animated Chinese film spins traditional tales with wonder and excitement

Deep Focus: Gemini

By Michael Sragow
March 29, 2018
L.A. noir: Aaron Katz’s female-driven mystery mistakes enigma for character depth

Deep Focus: Unsane

By Michael Sragow
March 22, 2018
Shock corridors: Claire Foy’s spiky performance as an unwitting prisoner of a mental hospital is a light in the darkness

Deep Focus: Tomb Raider

By Michael Sragow
March 15, 2018
Game over: the reboot of this video game franchise struggles to make something more than pretty pixels

Deep Focus: A Wrinkle in Time

By Michael Sragow
March 9, 2018
Interstellar kids: the over-hyped adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s sci-fi YA novel rings hollow