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: 'Dolittle' is Desperately Misguided
Dolittle is the single most misguided movie this side of Cats. This Robert Downey Jr vehicle approximates what might have happened if Bialystock and Bloom instead of producing on Broadway, moved to Hollywood to pull off their comical con jobs. Dolittle cost close to $200 million dollars and the final product is one that only a scam artist attempting to make the greatest flop in history would think to release to the public.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'La Leyenda Negra' A Cry in Black and White
Aleteia (Monica Betencourt) is hanging onto her American dream but just barely as the powers that be in Washington D.C keep threatening more and more of her existence. Aleteia has become radicalized in the war on immigrants, not just because she herself could be adversely affected, but because she believes in the power of a revolution.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in The Swamp
Movie Review: 'She's in Portland' Sideways for a new Generation
She's in Portland stars Tommy Dewey as Wes, a rich successful, still relatively young man, in a rut. Wes has problems that he's not fully prepared to confront but they are about to come to a head. Wes is being sent out west to his company's west coast branch to complete a deal. While he's on the coast he intends on seeing his friend Luke (Francois Arnaud), his best friend who has been ghosting him for over a month.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Get Gone'
Get Gone features modern horror icon Lin Shaye as the matriarch of a family of murderers. Mama, as Shaye's character is called, once found herself visiting the woods and deciding to stay after meeting a Fish and Game Ranger named Don Maxwell (Robert Miano). It's vaguely implied that Mama was kidnapped but the movie doesn't linger on this point.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Like A Boss' is Lazy Disaster
Like A Boss stars Tiffany Haddish as Mia and Rose Byrne as Mel. Together, the two have been friends since childhood and they now run their own struggling cosmetics company in what we can infer is: enter generic large city here, Atlanta maybe? Anyway, the two are in deep financial trouble because Mia, though remarkable with makeup, is terrible with money and Mel, though good with money, is bad at managing Mia.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Happy Death Day 2 U' A Solid Follow Up to Clever Original
Happy Death Day was a breath of fresh, comic, air in the horror genre in 2017 and because it was a financial success, as well as a critical success, we knew a sequel was coming. That sequel arrived two years later under the title Happy Death Day 2U. The cast returns with Jessica Rothe back in the lead role as Tree Gelbman, a woman who survived being trapped in a deathly time loop.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review What Men Want One of 2019's Worst
Under the old Hollywood studio system of the 1930's through the 1950’s it wasn’t uncommon that some executive would get a clever premise in their head, assign it to a contracted writer to be turned into a screenplay before turning it over to a contracted director to bring it to life with contracted actors, none of whom could care less about what they were making, they were just happy to be in Hollywood making movies.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review:'Miss Bala'A Pointless Remake
One day perhaps, actress Gina Rodriguez will be a major movie star. She has the talent and the charisma of a leading lady. She’s shown her movie star chops in her supporting role in Annihilation. There is no question that Rodriguez has unlimited potential. That potential however, is entirely unrealized in the rote and problematic remake, Miss Bala. An American take on the 2011, Mexican original of the same title, 2019’s Miss Bala does nothing to justify why it exists.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Velvet Buzzsaw' Netflix at its Most Forgettable
Watching Velvet Buzzsaw I kept impatiently waiting for the movie to be good. I had really high hopes for Velvet Buzzsaw. It stars the brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal alongside a pretty creative supporting cast and has a look that reminded me of a combination of Nicholas Winding Refn meets Tom Ford. Dan Gilroy is a really talented filmmaker who directed one of Jake Gyllenhaal’s best recent performances in Nightcrawler so clearly there was a reason to be excited. And yet, it stinks!
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Cats' is Weird
What the hell is a ‘Jellicle?’ I understand it has a root in a T.S Eliot poem, but even the venerable poet was rather nebulous about the conception. In the new movie adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Cats, I can only assume that Jellicle serves the same function as the word ‘Smurf’ does to the tiny blue people defined by that term. Jellicle is used to modify and describe numerous types of strange behavior in Cats and it never fails to baffle me at each use of it.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Two Popes' is Netflix's Overlooked Triumph
There have been only three Popes in my lifetime and only one of them has been slightly relevant to my life. Pope Francis, the modern Pope, has held me in thrall on a few occasions, specifically during his first days on Twitter when he was charming the world. And then, in the documentary about his time as Pope and how he was dragging the Catholic church out of the dark ages with one modern touch after another.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Report' Adam Driver Excellent in Modern History Drama
The story behind the so-called Torture Report is a strange and fascinating one. The comedy history podcast The Dollop brilliant captured the absurdity contained in the report in a 2016 podcast called The Torture Psychologists. In that podcast comedians Dave Anthony talked about the strange duo that the CIA turned to in their bizarre and futile attempt to justify torturing supposed terrorists.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in The Swamp
