Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Michael Sragow

Deep Focus: T2 Trainspotting

By Michael Sragow
March 23, 2017
Choose life (again): Danny Boyle's sequel to the seminal Gen X indie probes the complex relationships and wounds from the original

Deep Focus: Beauty and the Beast

By Michael Sragow
March 16, 2017
Pretty ugly: Disney's overstuffed live-action update falls short of the charms and the ambitions of the original

Deep Focus: Kong: Skull Island

By Michael Sragow
March 9, 2017
Not-so-great ape: the biggest star in movies is robbed of his lunkhead charms in this latest go-round

Deep Focus: Lovesong

By Michael Sragow
March 2, 2017
The heart grows fonder: So Yong Kim's low-key drama explores the complexities of female relationships and desire

Deep Focus: My Life as a Zucchini

By Michael Sragow
February 23, 2017
The kids aren't all right: with a cute and evocative animation style, Claude Barras balances the difficulties and sweetness of childhood

Deep Focus: The Lego Batman Movie

By Michael Sragow
February 9, 2017
Toy soldiers: a loopy franchise can't sustain its breakneck antics and self-reflexive humor, but is there something to its bizarroworld?

Deep Focus: Dark Night

By Michael Sragow
February 2, 2017
The more you know: Tim Sutton's bloodless reimagining of the Aurora theater shooting has its mind already made up about America

Deep Focus: Gold

By Michael Sragow
January 26, 2017
Willy Loman in Indonesia: Matthew McConaughey can’t fill the gaps in a movie that struggles to bridge hard-edged comedy-drama and high adventure

Deep Focus: Panique

By Michael Sragow
January 19, 2017
Of femme fatales and killers: Julien Duvivier’s thrilling and visually engrossing adaptation of a Georges Simenon suspense novel shines in a new restoration

Deep Focus: The Marseille Trilogy

By Michael Sragow
January 5, 2017
Marcel Pagnol's 1930s suite of interlaced character studies returns to the screen in a new restoration

Deep Focus: Hidden Figures

By Michael Sragow
December 29, 2016
Strength in numbers: formidable actresses shine in this rousing story about excelling at NASA in the 1960s in the face of adversity

Deep Focus: A Monster Calls

By Michael Sragow
December 22, 2016
Fractured fairy tales: J.A. Bayona’s adaptation of a fantasy YA novel expresses some complicated emotional truths

Deep Focus: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

By Michael Sragow
December 15, 2016
The franchise (re)awakens: calculation drives the latest entry in the inescapable space saga, but it doesn't add up to joy

Deep Focus: La La Land

By Michael Sragow
December 8, 2016
No time like the present: with all-vintage elements, Damien Chazelle offers up a tourist's love letter to Los Angeles

Deep Focus: Lion

By Michael Sragow
December 1, 2016
Search history: Garth Davis's soulful retelling of a miraculous homecoming is buoyed by Dev Patel

Deep Focus: Rules Don’t Apply

By Michael Sragow
November 23, 2016
Genius of the system: Warren Beatty expertly pairs the eccentricities of Howard Hughes with a sweet, nostalgic love story

Deep Focus: Nocturnal Animals

By Michael Sragow
November 17, 2016
This is your life: Tom Ford's hyperstylized adaptation of Austin Wright's novel shoots for profound and lands in soap opera

Deep Focus: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

By Michael Sragow
November 11, 2016
Star-spangled to death: Ang Lee's maximalist treatment of a soldier's homecoming puts flash over story

Deep Focus: Loving

By Michael Sragow
November 3, 2016
Rightfully yours: Jeff Nichols's portrait of the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage in all 50 states leans too heavily on cliché to be truly powerful

Deep Focus: By Sidney Lumet

By Michael Sragow
October 27, 2016
Block by block: the director of Network and Long Day’s Journey Into Night reflects on his films in an oversimplified documentary