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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Classic Movie Review 'Lord of the Rings: Return of the King'
The ‘Undisputed Classic’ on the December 16th episode of the Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast is our final leg in the Lord of the Rings franchise, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I could not be happier for this to be over. I wasn’t a big fan of bringing the Rings trilogy to the show and having watched all three for the second time in my life, I am elated to leave them in the past. Don’t misunderstand, I appreciate the achievement and the artistry but I just don’t care about this fantasy universe or its soporific inhabitants.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: '24 Hour Party People'
As I rebuild my DVD collection, I am finding some unique and terrific movies on the back shelves of Goodwill stores and library surplus sales. Here's a review of my latest find, 2002's Michael Winterbottom flick, 24 Hour Party People.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review '13 Conversations About One Thing' 2001
Don't you hate it when someone tells a joke and you’re the only one who doesn't get it? That is how I feel about the movie 13 Conversations About One Thing. After reading a large amount of positive reviews I'm left wondering what did it was I not see. The film from Jill and Karen Sprecher, the lovely minds behind 1997's Clockwatchers, tells the interlocking stories of a group of dour New Yorkers beset by strange fates.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
2019's First Movie Release 'Eli' Is Inspiring Fans
With 2019 right around the corner, I thought I would get a jump on researching and preparing for the first new movies of the new year. January is not traditionally a time when we see many quality movies. Most of the time, we are seeing the dregs of the Hollywood studios, the films that have languished on shelves for months and years at a time or movies that the studios know cannot compete in the more crowded portions of the year.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review '22 July'
Director Paul Greengrass is one of the most active and visceral directors of this or any era. Though his films are rarely box office successes, his style feels more alive and vigorous than any ten blockbusters on the market. His latest film, 22 July, made for Netflix, is yet another true life, documentary style, take on the ongoing war on terror. This time Greengrass takes us inside Norway’s worst nightmare with a similarly ultra-realistic approach that he brought to 9/11 in United 93 and Iraq in Green Zone.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Top 5 Demonic Possession Movies
The demonic possession movie remains an undying fascination for filmmakers and fans alike. People love speculating about life after death, heaven and hell and especially the powers of demons. Hollywood has been mining this fertile horror ground for years with the most famous examples coming in the late 60s and early 70s.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Cold War'
Can a film succeed solely on a strong ending? For me, the answer is a clear yes. Based off of my love for the ending of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, I can say that, for me, a good ending is enough for me to recommend a movie. Now, there are other elements that might recommend Cold War, the film is shot in gorgeous black and white and features a haunting series of musical performances but I can’t say I was completely invested in the movie until the ending stunned me with its harsh beauty.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Bernard and Huey'
Bernard and Huey is based on a long lost script by Jules Feiffer, the famed cartoonist and the screenwriter of 1971’s Carnal Knowledge, a film directed by Mike Nichols. If you’re someone in my profession, you could have guessed, at the very least, that Bernard and Huey's director Dan Mirvish had seen Carnal Knowledge. Much of Bernard and Huey plays like a modernized take on the same characters in a slightly different frame.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review 'Burning'
Burning is an American film noir dressed in modern, South Korean sensibilities and aesthetics. This mystery about a missing girl and the two men in her sphere is a fascinating meditation on obsession and sexual politics. Directed by the brilliant Lee Chang Dong, Burning doesn’t appear headed anywhere until it finally arrives at a place you could not have imagined at the start. Desire, jealousy, rage, all feelings that burn come into play by the end of this tremendous film.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
How 'Bonnie & Clyde' Changed Acting
Bonnie & Clyde is a flashpoint in American film history in more ways than one. Arthur Penn’s seminal crime drama ushered in the American New Wave of director-driven cinema in 1967. In a smaller, less notable fashion, however, Bonnie & Clyde marks a change in the way acting was perceived in the 1960’s and going forward. In the performances of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and their co-stars Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons, you have a perfect microcosm of the shift in acting style that was taking place at this time in American cinema.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review 'Bonnie & Clyde'
Bonnie & Clyde, 1967, is a stunning movie of its moment. It’s chaotic and violent, a swirling cauldron of romanticized crime and Americana. The film is riddled with bullets and blood and guts and yet it’s not a horror movie. Bonnie & Clyde at once influenced the age of movies that came after it and doesn’t quite live up to the movement it presaged. For all of its reputation, Bonnie & Clyde is best remembered as the beginning of the American New Wave, the era of the superstar director and the end of the Hollywood Studio system.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review '55 Steps'
55 Steps is unquestionably a tearjerker—it just happens to be a high calibur tearjerker. This is a superb film that features a pair of lead performances that just work. Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank are given all the room in the world to emote and overact and instead both actresses find near perfect tones for their performances that bridge a perfect gap between the broad strokes of drama and the authenticity of a based-on-a-true story movie.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
