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: M Night Shyamalan's 'Old' (Spoiler Review)
Old stars Vicky Krieps and Gael Garcia Bernal as Prisca and Guy Capps, a married couple on the rocks. Prisca and Guy are approaching a separation just as Prisca is dealing with a a potentially cancerous tumor and the potential of an early death. The two have won an all expenses paid trip to an island paradise via a contest they weren’t even aware they were part of. So, they pack up themselves and their two kids, daughter Maddox 11, and son Trent 6.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Woodstock 99 Peace, Love, and Rage'
Reliving the terrible memory I have of Woodstock 99 in the new HBO/Bill Simmons documentary, Woodstock Love, Peace, and Rage, made my skin crawl. It’s a memory I had apparently repressed all of these years. I wasn’t at Woodstock 99 but I recall laughing at the hubristic spectacle as it devolved beyond the simplistic metaphor of Lord of the Flies and into a genuine modern tragedy. I took dark comic pleasure, schadenfreude, while enjoying the spectacular failure of Woodstock 99 and remembering that now upsets me.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'Midnight in the Switchgrass'
Midnight in the Switchgrass stars Emile Hirsch as Detective Crawford, an investigator for the Florida Department of Criminal Investigation. Crawford is convinced that a serial killer is operating on the outskirts of Pensacola but he can’t prove it. The local cops aren’t interested because the victims are sex workers. Also, the killer’s M.O. is inconsistent, thus proving one man was behind each of the murders proves difficult.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Settlers
Settlers is a remarkably dull movie. Written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, Settlers doesn’t look bad and is not poorly acted. Rather, Settlers fails because there isn’t much of a story going on. The film centers on an innocent young girl on a remote planet with her parents. The story is about how she grew up in this bizarre isolation and how the experience shapes her. Echoes of what it has been like to be a kid during the pandemic and shelter at home orders are intentional. What I am assuming is not intended is how well Settlers captures the unending boredom and navel-gazing of being trapped at home by an unseen potentially deadly force.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Here After'
Here After is a rather smug and self-satisfied movie that takes some time to settle into. The film stars Andy Karl as Michael, a man recently killed in a car accident. That’s a shame but it gets worse for poor Michael in the afterlife. In the universe of Here After, people can only ascend to heaven in pairs. Thus, if one does not have a soulmate, they will be doomed to walk the Earth until they find a soulmate. If they never find a soulmate, they simply fade out of existence.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Willy's Wonderland'
Willy’s Wonderland piles absurdity on top of absurdity and in wonderfully, violently, crazy fashion. That this is a movie starring Nicolas Cage is something that should not surprise anyone. That Cage doesn’t utter a single line of dialogue, outside of an occasional grunt to signify effort, is surprising. Cage’s manic energy is often best employed when he’s wailing like a banshee or saying something strangely or hauntingly poignant. Without words in Willy’s Wonderland the famed personality somehow still shines through and is somehow as entertaining as ever.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Space Jam A New Legacy'
Space Jam A New Legacy is a branding partnership between Lebron James and Warner Media. The goal of Space Jam A New Legacy is to further the branding of both Lebron James and the Warner Media intellectual property known to many as Looney Tunes. That this branding partnership comes in the form of narrative media, known colloquially as a ‘movie’ is really just a means of conveyance.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Space Jam'
Space Jam has become a part of popular culture nostalgia in recent years. I can’t call it a critical reappraisal as critics are more likely to walk intentionally into traffic than actually sit down to assess Space Jam in any critical fashion after 25 years of its release, but a reappraisal has occurred nevertheless. The generations that came after Generation X have come to embrace the cheesy nostalgia and soundtrack of Space Jam regardless of the actual quality of Space Jam.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Broken Diamonds'
Things in movies are more than just things. If a writer or director calls attention to a specific thing, that thing gains meaning from that attention beyond its mere function. In the case of the new mental health drama, Broken Diamonds starring Ben Platt and Lola Kirke, it’s a house that takes on a great deal more meaning than being merely a place where someone lives. The house in question belonged to the main characters’ father and the added layer of meaning deepens as the story unfolds.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'How it Ends'
How it Ends is like an indie pop song, it appeals to some very specific sensibilities and will not be for all audiences. This end of the world comedy finds a nonplussed millennial mildly struggling with her identity and past as she makes plans for the destruction of the planet at the end of this day. What stands out about Eliza (Zoe Lister-Jones), beyond her existential crisis, is that she’s followed everywhere she goes by a projection of her younger self, Young Eliza (Cailee Spenny).
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Tomorrow War'
The Tomorrow War stars Chris Pratt as a High School science teacher and military veteran who gets drafted into a very unique war. While watching the World Cup at a party, Chris and the rest of the world are shocked to find the famed tournament interrupted by the arrival of soldiers from the future. As these soldiers will eventually explain, they’ve developed time travel technology specifically so that they can go back in time to recruit soldiers to fight in a future war against alien beasties.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: 'Pig' Starring Nicolas Cage
Pig is a very simple movie about loving something more than you love yourself. While it can be hard to take Nicolas Cage seriously these days given his full transformation into a meme in human form Pig shows that there are still times when the actor emerges from the shadow of the icon. Pig is a great example of Nicolas Cage the actor emerging and showing the delicacy and talent that is so often forgotten behind the bugged intensity and meme-worthy posing.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
