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Michael Sragow
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
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
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