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Michael Sragow
Deep Focus: Blackhat
By
Michael Sragow
January 15, 2015
Low resolution: Michael Mann's hacker action film fails to bring its globe-trotting characters to life
Deep Focus: Predestination
By
Michael Sragow
January 8, 2015
Peter and Michael Spierig's adaptation of a Robert Heinlein short story matches spectacle with nimble emotionality
Deep Focus: The Interview
By
Michael Sragow
December 30, 2014
Going rogue: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's buddy comedy has all the potty-mouthed raunch you might expect—but who is its real star?
Deep Focus: Selma
By
Michael Sragow
December 29, 2014
The more things change: Ava DuVernay offers a sometimes indirect portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. at a crucial moment
Deep Focus: The Hobbit: The Battle of the 5 Armies
By
Michael Sragow
December 17, 2014
Peter Jackson's 10-year quest to adapt Tolkein's Middle Earth books concludes with lyrical grandeur
Interview: Matt Reeves
By
Michael Sragow
December 17, 2014
Evolution meets revolution: a look back at
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
with its human director
Deep Focus: Top Five
By
Michael Sragow
December 10, 2014
Maximum charisma: Chris Rock's meditation on black celebrity confirms the virtuoso comic's strength as a filmmaker
Deep Focus: Unbroken
By
Michael Sragow
December 3, 2014
Angelina Jolie's portrait of emotional and physical endurance aims for the epic but falls into hagiography
Deep Focus: The Imitation Game
By
Michael Sragow
November 26, 2014
Secret life: Morten Tyldum's multilayered film about Alan Turning is a superbly, and subtly, wrought accomplishment
Deep Focus: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1
By
Michael Sragow
November 20, 2014
Working-class hero: the first half of
The Hunger Games
finale is driven by performances rather than explosions
Deep Focus: The Homesman
By
Michael Sragow
November 13, 2014
The mission: Tommy Lee Jones's Western with Hilary Swank is a story of grit that looks the part, but is it true to all its characters?
Deep Focus: Big Hero 6
By
Michael Sragow
November 6, 2014
A boy and his bot: our weekly West Coast critic peers into Disney's latest CG animated wonderland in his debut column!
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