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: 'Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness' is an Awful Movie
Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness is by far the worst movie in the modern Marvel Cinematic Universe. Multiverse of Madness gets off on the wrong foot from the opening scene and gets worse and worse with every turn of the plot and obvious failure of logic. Haphazardly assembled by director Sam Raimi, Multiverse of Madness piles bad special effects on top of bad storytelling while good performances suffocate under the weight of those failures.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Box of Rain' is a Love Letter to Fans of The Grateful Dead
Box of Rain is an emotional journey through the connection of The Grateful Dead and their incredibly unique and dedicated fandom. Shot through the prism of director Lonnie Frazier’s own emotional connection to the band, forged in the wake of a devastating sexual assault, Box of Rain reflects on a loving and supportive fandom that is like few others in modern popular culture, music or otherwise.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: Memory is Deeply Forgettable
Memory is yet another brain-free bullet fest from Liam Neeson. This time it’s even more potentially offensive as Neeson uses dementia and alzheimers as the tragic backstory for his violent character. In Memory, Neeson is a killer for hire who is slowly slipping into permanent memory loss and it’s as dubious a plot device as you imagine. Why anyone thought that using alzheimers and dementia would be a great backdrop for a generic action movie is beyond me but here we are.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Hatching' is One of the Best of the Year
Hatching takes the story of a girl ‘coming out of her shell’ to a frightening and enlightening place. This stylish film from Finland may have a rather blunt metaphor regarding a young woman transitioning into becoming a teenager but that bluntness is part of the disorienting and exciting horror/thriller vibe that director Hanna Bergholm is going for in Hatching. The bluntness is completely intentional and it works like a magic trick to keep you looking one way while you are upended by the style of the storytelling, the frightening metaphoric imagery, and the exceptional use of color.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Classic Documentary Review: 'The Wobblies' Reflects on the History of American Labor
On April 28th, 2022, the AFL-CIO will celebrate Workers Memorial Day, a day dedicated to those who lost their lives in the battle for better working conditions, better pay, and generally better treatment of the American working class. International Workers Day follows soon after on May 1st and again, labor unions will be heralded for the remarkable strides made from the early days of the labor movement, days remembered for remarkably brave men and women who defied the ruling class and fought on behalf of the working class.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in The Swamp
Documentary Review: 'Stu's Show' is a Documentary about Showbiz, Love and Healthcare
Stu’s Show begins as one kind of documentary and ends as something completely different, richer, and more thoughtful. What looks like the story of a Hollywood outsider who became an unlikely ally and friend to the stars of the Golden Age of Television, slowly morphs into a harrowing story about our modern Healthcare system and the people on the fringes of society who are forced to struggle and risk death to get the care they need from an often uncaring and indifferent healthcare system.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' is the Funniest Movie of 2022 So Far
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicolas Cage in arguably his greatest role, playing himself. Rather, I should say, Nicolas Cage is not playing himself but the pop cultural conception of who we think Nicolas Cage is. Nick Cage, if you will. This conception of Cage as a bizarre egomaniac obsessed with his own fame, struggling with money, and deeply weird is built on some foundations of truth, gossip, and the perceptions created by Cage’s many iconic film performances. It’s an utterly brilliant meta-creation that gives audiences the Nicolas Cage we want while distancing the actor from our perceptions with a layer of creative irony and detached humor.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Spectacular, Bloody, Violent, and Complex, 'The Northman is a Must See
Director Robert Eggers decided he wanted to make the definitive movie about Vikings and with The Northman he did just that. In scope, scale, performance, complexity and visual splendor, Eggers has made THE movie about Vikings. You can decide for yourself if that is a thing you want to experience but just know, the definitive movie about Vikings now exists and it is called The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Alexander Skarsgard and Anya Taylor Joy.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Confidently Weird, 'Stanleyville' is Wildly Intriguing
Stanleyville is a strange dark comedy that I imagine will get better on a second viewing. I say that because the movie is dense and strange and yet it contains riches that I imagine I might uncover with another viewing. Stanleyville is the feature length debut from director Maxwell McCabe Lokos and it is a statement of weird and fascinating purpose. Set in one location and proceeding in the fashion of Squid Game, a series of games that may or may not kill the participants, the film maintains a strangely light tone amid the potential for death at any moment.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Rhea Perlman is Outstanding in 'Marvelous and the Black Hole'
Marvelous and the Black Hole is a delightful comedy about a depressed teenager and the magician who helps turn her life around. If that premise doesn’t perk you up a little, the movie isn’t for you but if you’re like me, and that description made you smile, you must see this movie. Rhea Perlman, famed star of Cheers, gets a rare leading role as the magician in this story and she has lost none of her light comic touch from when she was a television star. In fact, based on the evidence of this movie, experience has only made Perlman even more lovable.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Unplugging' is Unfunny
Unplugging is a dimwitted sitcom premise desperately stretched out to feature length. The premise of this new comedy starring Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh could barely sustain an episode of insert modern family comedy here and yet someone thought it would make a good feature length film. They were wrong, very, very wrong. Unplugging is a tedious 90 plus minute slog through an unfunny dad joke.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Song Review: 'First Class' by Jack Harlow is Another in a Long Line of Mediocre Number 1 Hits
I am truly baffled, what is the appeal of the current number one song in America, First Class by Jack Harlow? Now, the song is not repellent, for the most part, but it is remarkably uninteresting. First Class takes Fergie’s 2006 chart topper, GLAMOROUS, and re-imagines it through the lens of hip hop star Jack Harlow reflecting on his rather remarkable and immediate success in the world of pop music. And that’s really it. There is nothing insightful or new about it, Harlow humblebrags and Fergie’s producers have already done most of the work. At least the work that wasn’t already, already done by Sheila E’s producers back in the 1980s.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Beat
