Sean Patrick
Bio
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.
Stories (1969)
Filter by community
Movie Review: Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a giddy sensory overload. Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel packs an eye blasting amount of pop cult ephemera into its 2 hours and 20 minutes run time and yet still finds time to craft an adventure worthy of his directorial canon. Everything from Monty Python to Gundam, from Minecraft to Stanley Kubrick finds a place in Ready Player One without any of them stepping on the others too much.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Salome' & 'Wilde Salome'
The mercurial Al Pacino decades ago passed into self-parody. It was a sad passing, watching one of the most powerful and fascinating actors in movie history begin to rely on bellowing, over-the-top nonsense rather than investing in his actual talent. Perhaps he thought that the bellowing nonsense was always his performative style, perhaps he feels that we changed and he didn’t, but the bottom line is, it’s all been downhill since one of Pacino’s worst performances, Scent of a Woman, was awarded an Academy Award.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Blockers'
When their daughters make a sex pact on Prom Night, three parents set out stop them in the new comedy Blockers. Lisa (Leslie Mann), Mitchell (John Cena), and Hunter (Ike Barinholz) entered each other’s lives when their daughters met and became lifelong friends in Kindergarten. Now, with college on the horizon and Prom Night at hand, the three parents are adjusting poorly to their daughters growing up.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Review: 'Unsane'
While many are focused on Steven Soderbergh’s mode of filming Unsane, they might miss just how exceptional the film truly is. The fact that Soderbergh, the auteur behind Traffic, Erin Brockovich, and the mind behind mainstream blockbusters like the Oceans franchise, made Unsane on several different iPhones is certainly notable, but the important thing to know is that he has made one incredibly chilling horror thriller.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Midnight Sun'
As a much younger and more rash critic, I created a nasty, dismissive shorthand for movies that centered on teenage girl characters who die of vaguely familiar diseases slowly enough to have a literally once in a lifetime love affair. I referred to these movies as "Dead Ingenue Movies." I coined the term in my admittedly nasty review of 2003’s A Walk to Remember.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 13
Seemingly every year since the invention of internet-based film criticism and social media, a horror movie comes along and is met with praise befitting a game-changing work of art. Rarely is the movie in question worthy of such hype but it happens regardless. This year it is A Quiet Place, John Krasinski’s outstanding post-apocalyptic, family in danger thriller. A Quiet Place is a very good movie but it must be said that it is no ‘game changer.’
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: How it Works
Someone was asking me how I rank the movies for my "Ranking the Movies" of 2018 column. First and foremost, I recognize the futility and downright silliness of ranking movies. Subjectivity is deeply embedded in this column, it’s not meant to be scholarly, and it’s intended for entertainment and as an excuse for me to share my thoughts on a bunch of movies all at once.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 12
Another week, and another reckoning with nostalgia via the work of Steven Speilberg. In week ten of this rankings column, I wrote about Indiana Jones and how my feelings about the film have evolved over the years. I still love Indiana Jones, but not in the reverent way I did when I was a child. Ready Player One revived this debate in my mind over how our culture_specifically Hollywood—recycles our memories into nostalgia and markets them back to us.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 11
A new number one. After several weeks of celebrating my love for my rewatch of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a conversation on the latest Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast made me finally push a movie past the Jimmy Stewart classic. Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s remarkable love story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, moved me so much in my recent rewatch that I could not stop gushing about it.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 10
On the latest Everyone’s a Critic Movie Podcast myself and co-hosts Bob Zerull and Josh Adams tackled nostalgia. We were discussing this week’s classic, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of mine and Josh’s favorite movies. Watching Indiana Jones raises so many emotions for me but the main one is nostalgia and nostalgia is kind of funny. When you come to associate something with a time in your life, happy or sad, nostalgia tends to gloss over portions of actual history.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Los Angeles Overnight'
Los Angeles Overnight takes a familiar plot and dresses it up with some satisfying weirdness and one terrific lead performance. Arielle Brachfield plays Priscilla, a wannabe actress struggling to stay afloat in Los Angeles. Director Michael Chrisoulakis uses image and dialogue to keep audiences off balance, even as the story has the conventional trappings of a thriller.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Love Simon'
Love Simon is remarkable for being not all that accomplished or remarkable. Don’t get me wrong, the film is lovely. It’s just lovely in the same way a middle of the road sitcom has graceful moments fitting of the medium. What’s remarkable is that we’ve finally reached an era where we can present young gay characters in movies without it having to carry the weight of a movement. Gay people deserve to be represented in as much middle of the road, sitcom entertainment as anyone else, and Love, Simon hits those notes perfectly.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
