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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How One Bad Scene Can Ruin a Movie: 'The King's Man'
A spoiler alert and a trigger warning. This article goes into detail about a key plot point in the new prequel movie, The King's Man, part of The Kingsman series of movies. I don't recommend seeing The King's Man, for reasons I am laying out in this article, but if you are committed to seeing it regardless of this warning then skip this article. But do not say that you were not warned.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Scary of 61st' Posits a Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Horror Movie
The Scary of 61st is a creepy, macabre, horror movie that centers around none other than Jeffrey Epstein. The horror movie from writer director Dasha Nekrasova posits a world in which the evil of Jeffrey Epstein was the manifestation of a demon which possesses and destroys the roommates who move into one of Epstein’s former stash houses, apartments where Epstein is alleged to have imprisoned very young women before they were then traded like currency amongst Epstein’s uber-rich friends around the world.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Swan Song' a Wonderful Showcase for Mahershala Ali
You’re dying, it’s an incurable disease and you can do nothing to stop it. Now, imagine you have the resources and technology has advanced to a degree that you can have yourself cloned down to the most miniscule memories and capabilities and that your clone won’t have the genetic predisposition for the same deathly illness that is killing you. This clone can take over your life and make sure that your family has no idea that you have died. Would you do it?
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Licorice Pizza' is a Glorious Slice of 70's Life
Licorice Pizza stars Cooper Hoffman as Gary Valentine, an enterprising 16 year old with a restless mind. Gary is on angle in every moment of his life having broken into Hollywood as a child actor and parlayed that into other enterprises. As Licorice Pizza plays out we watch Gary find opportunities at every turn due to his immense charisma and curiosity. It’s Gary’s fearless, self promoting confidence, that catches the attention of Alana while she’s working as an assistant to a photographer for Gary’s school pictures.
By Sean PatrickExclusive • 4 years ago
Movie Review: 'West Side Story' is Vibrant Popcorn Entertainment
The big question surrounding Steven Speilberg’s big budget adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical, West Side Story was why? Why remake West Side Story? What about this 60’s era paean to 1950s, post World War 2 angst carries any appeal today? What justifies remaking a movie that has a beloved original that is about as good as the material could likely be? Having seen Speilberg’s West Side Story, I still don’t have a good answer for that question. But, I can’t say I wasn’t entertained or moved by the effort on display.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Empty Provocation of 'Red Rocket'
I find the movie Red Rocket loathsome. It’s not a moral objection to the film as some might assume since the movie centers on the relationship between a former adult film actor and a 17 year old girl, though I do understand why moral objections to this movie exist. No, my issue isn’t that I am some kind of prude or I don’t like to have my values challenged by a work of art. Rather, I just find Red Rocket to be unendingly obnoxious.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Filthy
Movie Review: 'The Lost Daughter' is a Tough Movie
Few movies have triggered my secondhand embarrassment senses like The Lost Daughter. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut stars Oscar winner Olivia Coleman as a college professor on holiday in Rome. Coleman’s Leda is desperately awkward and incapable of relating to other, lesser human beings. We get a sense of Leda in her first interaction with Lyle (Ed Harris), the caretaker of the apartment she has rented for her vacation. Lyle, in his 70s, is struggling while carrying her remarkably heavy bag to her room and yet he still tries to flirt with the near 50 year old Leda, much to her confusion and dismissiveness.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'National Champions' Lays Out the Case to Pay College Football Players. Top Story - December 2021.
National Champions aims to tell the story of how College Football exploits players. It’s a compelling bit of polemic on behalf of the players as the story gives strong voice to the complaints that many have had regarding the millions of dollars given to coaches and the billions of dollars raked in by universities and conferences that do little to benefit the young men laying their bodies on the line to actually earn that money.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Don't Look Up' is a Savage Satire of Modern Politics and Media
Don’t Look Up is a savage satire that pulls few punches in calling out those who would deny either COVID-19 or climate change. Playing like a modern Doctor Strangelove, the famously anti-war war movie, Don’t Look Up uses clever caricatures of modern politics to criticize and humiliate those who appear prepared to watch the world burn just to protect some ego born version of their political team, one they believe can’t lose no matter what winning might look like, even if it looks like the death of humanity.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Being the Ricardos' Aaron Sorkin Makes Lucy Unfunny
The talent of writer-director Aaron Sorkin is undeniable. Sorkin is a man of words, of wit, and caustic observation. I have no intention of diminishing Mr Sorkin’s talent but I have to quarrel with his choice of subjects. While Sorkin’s rat-a-tat banter and scintillating discourse on important issues is usually very welcome when providing a voice to good hearted politicians on The West Wing or when creating a recognizable version of a social media titan like Mark Zuckerberg, under the strict direction of David Fincher, in The Social Network. However, having that same style saddled onto the legend of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez feels completely out of place.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Nightmare Alley' Another Masterpiece from Guillermo Del Toro
Nightmare Alley is a gorgeous cinematic achievement. Director Guillermo Del Toro crafts visuals like few modern directors. With Academy Award nominated cinematographer Dan Laustsen, Del Toro crafts cinematic visuals of remarkable clarity and detail. It’s truly a sight to behold and it shows Del Toro as a consummate filmmaker, a man who cares so much about his film presentation as to turn each frame into a work of art. If you’re waiting for me to offer a caveat, keep waiting. I have nothing bad to say about Nightmare Alley.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Death of a Telemarketer' and the Uncanny Valley of Mediocrity . Top Story - December 2021.
It’s not that there aren’t truly bad movies anymore but rather that our society has changed to such a degree that it has become harder for a movie to be truly incompetent or terrible. The incompetent and the terrible still exist but they are finding it harder to escape into the mainstream. In their place have arisen movies that are competent but tone deaf. These movies are well made enough to convince people that they deserve to exist but they aren’t objectively good movies. Mediocre is one way to describe these movies or perhaps merely dull.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
