Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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Movie Review: 'Burn it All'
“Why are you so angry?” “Calm down” “Why are women are so emotional?” These are just a few of the trigger phrases for women that have persisted through the years. Insecure and clueless members of the male gender have used these phrases to deflect the feelings of women since time immemorial. The new action-suspense thriller, Burn it All uses the tropes of the thriller genre to show a woman who is just over it. She’s over the patriarchy, she’s over being talked down to, and she’s just over the misogyny of men in general.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Viva
Movie Review: 'The Blackout'
The Blackout is a charming movie filled with characters who are smart, intelligent and romantic. This tiny, low budget, drama about friends gathering for a party in a New York City apartment just as Hurricane Sandy is hammering the City is filled with heart, romance, humor and genuine heartfelt emotion. I mean this in the kindest way possible, the movie is reminiscent of a millennial take on The Big Chill, minus the pretension and the killer soundtrack that outshines the actual movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Young Hearts'
Most of us have nostalgia for a first love. You likely remember that first person who stirred up your hormones and with whom you enacted what you assumed a relationship was like. Adolescent fumbling's of first kisses and sexual experimentation are among the most universal of human memories. That said, most of us did not have the most cinematic experience. Sure, the lens of time has rendered the memories in a fashion that has kept the highlights, but it wasn’t exactly the thing a great narrative is built upon.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Mauritanian'
While it has slipped from the American public consciousness, the international community will likely not soon forget what America did at so-called ‘Black Sites’ around the globe and at the well known island prison of Guantanamo Bay. Many of us would like to put this memory out of our minds and pretend like it was not important. Movies like the new legal drama The Mauritanian refuse to allow that to happen.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: 'To All the Boys: Always and Forever'
I must admit my complete ignorance of Netflix’s To All the Boys film series. Until the pandemic began, I didn’t do much Netflix and chill, I was busy at the movie theater. I would take time to check out Netflix when they did something big and splashy like The Irishman, but, for the most part, I ignored the rest of the streaming channel’s output, especially their many, MANY, young adult products which are so numerous as to have completely run together into a blob of high schools and hormones.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Minari'
The American dream is for everyone. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, the American dream, prosperity, independence, freedom, are available to everyone. Some people place hurdles in front of the dream based on their prejudice, petty hatreds, and ignorance. But those hurdles can take nothing away from the true American dream and those who fight to achieve it. A good example of that is the new movie Minari.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Families
Movie Review: 'X' Camp Erotic Thriller Subverts Expectations
X is a movie that is difficult to describe. It’s not a pornographic movie but it is a very sexual movie. It’s not a thriller but it’s not a straight drama either. It’s a very modern movie with a strong eye toward the pansexuality of modern, big city youth culture. It also has elements of social media satire, and a wildly strange conclusion that has stuck with me in the several days since I watched the movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Filthy
Movie Review: 'French Exit'
If you’re curious about the title, French Exit, specifically what is a ‘French Exit,' the Wiktionary defines a French Exit as “A hasty exit without farewells to anybody.” It is, indeed, an apt title for the new comedy from director Azazel Jacobs, the writer-director of the lovely romantic comedy of manners, The Lovers. In French Exit, Jacobs re-teams with his The Lovers’ star Tracy Letts who portrays the voice of a cat.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Judas and the Black Messiah'
In January of 1990, a documentary called Eyes on the Prize 2 was aired on PBS. The documentary contained the one and only interview ever conducted with former FBI informant Ron O’Neal. The documentary aired on the night of Martin Luther King Jr Day and that night, after the documentary aired, Ron O’Neal committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic. Seemingly, O’Neal could no longer live with what he’d done as an FBI informant in the late 1960’s.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review 'More than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story'
What do you know about Pat Morita? You likely know that he was Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid. If you’re older you may remember Morita as Arnold, the proprietor of the restaurant hang out for the Happy Days gang. But did you know that Pat Morita found his first success as a stand up comic? I sure didn’t and the problematic aspects of his fame in the 1960s and 1970s is a cringe inducing trip into the American history of racism.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review 'Malcolm & Marie'
I have nothing but love and respect for my critical brethren. It takes a great deal of fortitude to endure the slings and arrows of being a professional film critic. Filmmakers often don’t care for our profession and consider us outsiders, ignorant of their effort and art form. Many movie fans hate us and openly tell us that they seek out movies we don’t like on the assumption that they will like it because we don’t.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Humans
Documentary Review: 'ESPN 30 for 30: Al Davis vs the NFL' . Top Story - February 2021.
ESPN 30 for 30 has become a haven for documentary filmmakers eager to find unique ways to tell familiar stories. The documentary format can tend to be a very homogenous artform, always very similar and familiar in structure and presentation. Thus a series such as 30 for 30 can feel a little rote after a while. To change that, documentary filmmakers need to get creative and find little ways to set themselves apart from the rest.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Unbalanced
