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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Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 13
Seemingly every year since the invention of internet-based film criticism and social media, a horror movie comes along and is met with praise befitting a game-changing work of art. Rarely is the movie in question worthy of such hype but it happens regardless. This year it is A Quiet Place, John Krasinski’s outstanding post-apocalyptic, family in danger thriller. A Quiet Place is a very good movie but it must be said that it is no ‘game changer.’
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: How it Works
Someone was asking me how I rank the movies for my "Ranking the Movies" of 2018 column. First and foremost, I recognize the futility and downright silliness of ranking movies. Subjectivity is deeply embedded in this column, it’s not meant to be scholarly, and it’s intended for entertainment and as an excuse for me to share my thoughts on a bunch of movies all at once.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 12
Another week, and another reckoning with nostalgia via the work of Steven Speilberg. In week ten of this rankings column, I wrote about Indiana Jones and how my feelings about the film have evolved over the years. I still love Indiana Jones, but not in the reverent way I did when I was a child. Ready Player One revived this debate in my mind over how our culture_specifically Hollywood—recycles our memories into nostalgia and markets them back to us.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 11
A new number one. After several weeks of celebrating my love for my rewatch of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a conversation on the latest Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast made me finally push a movie past the Jimmy Stewart classic. Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s remarkable love story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, moved me so much in my recent rewatch that I could not stop gushing about it.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 10
On the latest Everyone’s a Critic Movie Podcast myself and co-hosts Bob Zerull and Josh Adams tackled nostalgia. We were discussing this week’s classic, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of mine and Josh’s favorite movies. Watching Indiana Jones raises so many emotions for me but the main one is nostalgia and nostalgia is kind of funny. When you come to associate something with a time in your life, happy or sad, nostalgia tends to gloss over portions of actual history.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Los Angeles Overnight'
Los Angeles Overnight takes a familiar plot and dresses it up with some satisfying weirdness and one terrific lead performance. Arielle Brachfield plays Priscilla, a wannabe actress struggling to stay afloat in Los Angeles. Director Michael Chrisoulakis uses image and dialogue to keep audiences off balance, even as the story has the conventional trappings of a thriller.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Love Simon'
Love Simon is remarkable for being not all that accomplished or remarkable. Don’t get me wrong, the film is lovely. It’s just lovely in the same way a middle of the road sitcom has graceful moments fitting of the medium. What’s remarkable is that we’ve finally reached an era where we can present young gay characters in movies without it having to carry the weight of a movement. Gay people deserve to be represented in as much middle of the road, sitcom entertainment as anyone else, and Love, Simon hits those notes perfectly.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Tomb Raider'
Tomb Raider is one of those doomed video-game properties, destined to elude filmmakers in the way most video-games elude those who wish to turn them into movies. It’s the nature of the video game to elude anyone’s singular vision as what is a video game but a non-singular vision? Sure, the makers have a particular vision and their choices limit those of the players in many ways.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: 'Atlanta' Robbin Season Episode 3
Van (Zazie Beets) is back, Earn (Donald Glover) learns that a $100 bill is more trouble than it’s worth, and Paper Boi (Bryan Tyree Henry) hangs with Clark County on an all new Atlanta, episode 3: Money Bag Shawty. Where was Van? This is not a question that the show is all that interested in answering. We know Earn spent the first two episodes of this season homeless despite the fact that Van was getting his mail, including a sizable check.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Ranking the Movies of 2018: Week 9
Our classic on the Everyone's a Critic movie podcast this week was His Girl Friday, one of my favorite comedies of all time, and my mom's favorite of all time. Despite horrible rumors spread by other members of my family that claim Pretty Woman was my mother's favorite film, I can tell you, it was His Girl Friday and her all-time crush Cary Grant.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Gringo'
Harold (David Oyelowo) hasn’t had things easy in his relatively young life. Despite his pretty wife and his mid-level corporate stooge job, he’s been stepped on every step of the way for being the kind of nice guy chump that people take advantage of. He’s the perfect best friend for Richard (Joel Edgerton), a cocky, sleazy corporate raider in need of a yes man like Harold who’s easily manipulated.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Strangers Prey at Night'
Kinsey (Bailee Madison) is being sent to boarding school because she’s grown out of control. Her parents, Cindy (Christina Hendricks) and Mike (Martin Henderson), are at their wit's end with their rebellious offspring, and as we join their story, they, along with their son, Luke (Lewis Pullman) are driving Kinsey to her new school. Tensions are high among the family and reach a boiling point when they pull off for the night.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Horror
