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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The Shape of Water Dream Dance Is the Best Scene of 2017
The fantasy dance sequence in Guillermo Del Toro’s sublime, The Shape of Water, is the finest single scene in any movie in 2017. The scene begins with Sally Hawkins’ Elisa, just before she must deliver her new amphibian-man lover to the sea. Elisa is attempting to tell this creature, which likely cannot understand her beyond the most basic communication, that she is in love with him. Complicating things further is the fact that Elisa is mute.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Just Getting Started'
Why does the movie Just Getting Started exist? Having seen this ghastly comedy, I can’t for a moment divine why anyone involved thought making this movie was a good idea. The jokes are creaky and unfunny; the story is past its sell by date and the direction is clumsy, bordering on amateurish? What type of blackmail was required to draw Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones to appear in this film? What kind of blackmail was required to get movie theaters to make space for this movie in the same month in which Star Wars The Last Jedi is being released?
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Interview: Lady Bird Star Saoirse Ronan
This interview originally aired on WKAI FM Macomb, IL. Actress Saoirse Ronan is among the frontrunners to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in Lady Bird. Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird stars Ronan as an iconoclastic teenage girl who clashes with her straight-laced mother, played by Laurie Metcalf, while trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life. Ronan’s performance is remarkable in the way she transforms from a 24-year-old Irish woman into a 17-year-old from Sacramento with flawless detail.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Gary Oldman Stunning in Darkest Hour
With the release of the movie Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman, there has been a new reckoning with the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, one that has brought to light some of Churchill’s more horrific qualities. On his podcast Revisionist History, journalist Malcolm Gladwell reflected on Churchill with specific criticisms about the legendary Prime Minister’s policies toward India, policies that many feel were driven by Churchill’s Hitler-like disdain for the Indian people. Then there was the policy of strategic bombing in Germany which may have actually extended the war by two more years even as Churchill is recalled as that war’s great, heroic leader.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
'The Shape of Water' Earns 14 Critics Choice Award Nominations
Nominations for the 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards have been announced and it is a bonanza for Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water which earned 14 nominations including noms for Best Picture, Best Actress for Sally Hawkins, Best Director for Guillermo Del Toro, and many below the top line nominations. My favorite movie of 2017, The Big Sick, earned 6 much-deserved nominations including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Holly Hunter, and Best Original Screenplay for Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s lovely retelling of their true life love story.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Downsizing'
The soulful Alexander Payne has ventured into new territory with his part sci-fi, part romance, Downsizing. Starring Matt Damon, Downsizing tells the story of Paul Safranek, a Midwestern schlub dealing with the daily grind of a job he doesn’t love, a home he can’t afford, and a wife, Audrey, who may or may not love him, played by Kristen Wiig. Paul’s typical Midwestern domesticity is upended by the discovery of Downsizing which gives humanity the chance to shrink to about 5 inches tall and help save the environment by consuming less.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Princess Cyd'
Princess Cyd is a movie that may make you uncomfortable but it will also charm you and make you laugh. The film is a frank discussion of a teenage girl discovering her sexuality and for many, myself included, this is not an easily digestible subject. That said, Princess Cyd happens to be a remarkably sensitive, smart and funny coming of age story with fully realized and charming characters. It’s a film that reminds us all how important it is to talk about and explore topics we may find awkward or uncomfortable.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon'
The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon is a strange little low-budget sci-fi horror movie that has no business being as fun as it is. This American-Serbian production from director Dejan Zecevic is well paced, fun and quite creepy. Movies like The Rift are a nice reminder that low-budget sci-fi horror is still being made and can still be quite fun despite our pop cultural prejudice in favor of big budgets, big studios and big movie stars.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Disaster Artist'
Pathos—a quality that evokes pity or sadness. Pathos seemed to be the defining characteristic of Tommy Wiseau’s abysmal debut feature The Room. The film evoked pathos because it was quite pitiably terrible in every fashion. The film was/is complete and utter nonsense from beginning to end with the witless Wiseau creating a star vehicle for himself despite his complete lack of talent and then directing the whole mess despite his complete lack experience and talent.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Love Beats Rhymes'
Love Beats Rhymes is the kind of movie that just doesn’t get made enough. This is a sweet, sensitive, and smart movie about a young, ambitious black woman who decides that she can have all that she wants, school, career, a good man, and that all it takes is a little hard work and desire. I wish more movies had the courage to tell young women that you don’t have to compromise all the time and that you can demand all that you want and work toward getting it.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'I, Tonya'
It’s hard to pin down director Craig Gillespie. On one hand, he directed the wonderfully warm and quirky Lars and the Real Girl in 2007 but also directed the awful, unfunny "comedy" Mr. Woodcock that same year. Gillespie has since directed the remarkably dull sports flick Million Dollar Arm, the forgettable and unnecessary horror remake Fright Night and the wildly underrated and too quickly forgotten The Finest Hours. So, is Gillespie a great director or a hack? Is he an auteur or a Hollywood carpenter, cobbling together studio products?
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri stars Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, a mother whose daughter was brutally raped and murdered. The crime has not been solved after eight months and a frustrated Mildred is at her wit's end when she sees three empty billboards on a lonely street side outside of the town of Ebbing. Hoping to light a fire under the local Chief of Police, Jim Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), Mildred books all three billboards with a message directed at the chief.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
