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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Will Ferrell His Five Best and Five Worst Movies
I remember a time in my life when Will Ferrell was funny… I think. No, I am pretty sure it happened. It’s been a while, but I am almost certain that Will Ferrell was funny once during my lifetime. I think my memory is clouded because the last several times I have seen Will Ferrell on the big screen it has been astonishingly unpleasant. Movies like The House, Holmes and Watson and 2020’s Downhill are movies so bad that they’ve almost entirely obscured what I used to enjoy about Will Ferrell.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Devil's Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge'
Trying to bring order to the chaos of Devil’s Night: The Dawn of Nain Rouge is an exhausting task. I am merely being hyperbolic here, but I may actually put more work into sorting out this ludicrous plot than anyone actually involved in the making of Devil’s Night: The Dawn of Nain Rouge. Based around an urban legend in Detroit, with both Native American or, more honestly, racist, origins and supernatural origins, Devil’s Night: The Dawn of Nain Rouge is distilled chaos.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Documentary Review: 'Manchild: The Shea Cotton Story'
The term 'Manchild' has a negative connotation these days. The term is used as a shorthand for a legitimate psychological issue called 'Peter Pan Syndrome.' It's a disorder for people who are unable to feel like grown ups. The term is used these days in a more colloquial sense. Manchild is used often to criticize men who exhibit childish behavior. The term has olde English origins but it could be argued that it took on a more colloquial meaning in 1990 when a young man from California named Shea Cotton emerged on the national basketball scene.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Da 5 Bloods'
The plagues of the last 60 years of American history come to the fore in Spike Lee’s new movie Da 5 Bloods. The film is a reckoning of the Vietnam war, race relations, the murder of Martin Luther King, and the emptiness of avarice and greed. All of this on display amidst Spike Lee’s virtuoso direction and with a pair of performances from Delroy Lindo and Chadwick Boseman that will leave you breathless.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Serve
Movie Review: 'Mope' is a True Crime Story in the World of Low Rent Porn
Mope is an exceedingly unpleasant pseudo-comedy-drama about the lowest depths of the porn business. Co-written and directed by Lucas Heyne, Mope opens on a porn set with a group of terrifyingly misshapen and desperate men performing an unspeakable act on a willing female porn star. She wants this thing to happen, apparently, but that does not alleviate the horror of this graphic scene, a jarring introduction to this story and to our main characters.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Filthy
Movie Review: 'The Short History of the Long Road'
Parents and children are an area of drama that movies don’t explore enough. The rich layers of life in the parent-child relationship make for wonderful stories. Proof of that concept is the new movie The Short History of the Long Road, an award worthy drama that explores the life of a young woman dealing with the dual traumas of lost and absent parents. Nola, played by the exceptional Sabrina Carpenter, demonstrates beautifully how loss and absence adds up to so much of who she is.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Pride Month Movie Review: 'Boy Erased'
Boy Erased is a powerful, infuriating, and deeply compelling work. This 'based on a true story' drama, from writer-actor-director Joel Edgerton, tells a very effective story in a straightforward and properly dramatic fashion. The story happens to tap a deep well of disdain in me, not toward the movie, but toward the subject. As a long time supporter of the LGBTQ community, love to my non-binary friends, Boy Erased made my blood boil just as it intended to.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Artemis Fowl' is Good Enough
The new Disney Plus movie Artemis Fowl was one of the theatrical releases lost to the COVID-19 shutdown of most American movie theaters. The film based on the popular young adult book series of the same title, written and created by Eoin Colfer, has spawned numerous book sequels over the years and has long been sought and awaited as a film franchise. And yet, the movie feels too small and compact to be the start of an epic franchise.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: ESPN 30 for 30 'Long Gone Summer'
The summer of 1998 went from something none of us baseball fans would ever forget, to one that we have all collectively tried to wash away from history. The cloud of steroids and the ugliness of lies and deceit that accompanied hearings in Washington D.C and public battles in the sports media are memories we’d all like to leave behind as much as the summer of '98 itself. It is the memories of bitter arguments among baseball historians and everyday fans that clouds what was once the most magical moment in the history of the sport, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s pursuit of Roger Maris’s single season home run record.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'The King of Staten Island' is a Mixed Bag
It’s tempting, as an observer and critic of culture, to attempt to place movies within large contexts. “What does this movie say about insert grand subject here?” That’s not a bad approach per se but when it is applied too liberally, as to ANY movie you see, it doesn’t work so well. Some movies don’t have that kind of ambition or intent. Not every movie is trying to say something important.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Bruce Lee is Well Remembered in Remarkable 'Be Water'
Imagine being incredible. Think of what it might be like to believe and be able to prove in many ways that you are exceptional. For some of us that will all we'll ever have is an imagining of our own greatness. For Bruce Lee, greatness was evident, it was provable and undeniable. And yet, despite his greatness being obvious to anyone who witnessed him, he was still denied what he should have been assured, worldwide stardom on a scale similar to or exceeding any Hollywood star in history.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Four Women Shine in 'Shirley'
Have you ever met someone whose mood is capable of controlling the temperature in the room they are in? The Shirley Jackson portrayed by Elisabeth Moss in the new movie, Shirley, is one of those people. Whatever room Shirley is in appears colder when she’s there. Her very being bespeaks a menacing intelligence so present it could bite. Shirley is portrayed here as being so quick witted that she could kill with words.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
