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: '14 Days, 12 Nights' is Canada's Academy Award Contender
The complexities at play in the French Canadian feature film 14 Days, 12 Nights revolve around grief and how it can spread like a virus. In the case of 14 Days, 12 Nights, the grief began in Canada with the death of a young girl in a tragic accident. From there the grief travels to the young girl’s home country of Vietnam as her adopted mother takes her ashes back to her home country, presumably to lay them to rest.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Impetigore' is Indonesia's Oscar Hopeful
Impetigore is a creeptastic horror movie from Indonesia that is competing to be Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The film is Indonesia’s official entry into the awards season and it is not your typical Oscar movie. This is a blood and guts shocker about curses, babies born without skin, and two innocent women whose desire for wealth overwhelms their good judgment.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Supernova' Dying a Hollywood Death
Hollywood sure seems to want to see those who’ve been diagnosed with deathly illnesses dead. I don’t intend to be flippant about life and death and the choices that people make about the end of their life. Nor do I wish to make any kind of political statement regarding end of life and whether or not those with traumatic illness should have a choice in whether or not they end their life.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Palmer' Starring Justin Timberlake
In the new movie, Palmer, Justin Timberlake plays a former High School Football star quarterback who has just been released from prison. Moving back to his hometown of Sylvain, Louisiana, Palmer, as he’s known to friends, just wants to settle down and go unnoticed. He wants to get a job, have a few beers with friends and stay out of trouble. Naturally, there would not be much of a movie if that happened.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Little Things'
The trailer for the new Denzel Washington-Rami Malek thriller, The Little Things, rubs me the wrong way. It’s similar to when you’re listening to a song and they strike a bad chord and you wince almost imperceptibly. That’s me every time I see the trailer for The Little Things and Denzel Washington blames the murdered woman on a morgue slab in front of him for getting herself killed.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: '#Like'
After the first two acts of #Like, I began writing a very positive review in my head. The movie begins to weave a very compelling story very early on about a once popular teenager, former cheerleader, deeply disillusioned by the death of a loved one. So disillusioned is our protagonist that she begins a quest for revenge that feels raw and organic in the way that someone whose never had a violent motivation before might plot revenge.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'No Man's Land'
The illegal immigration drama No Man's Land has good intentions going for it. And that's about it. This story about a budding sports star who accidentally kills a Mexican child crossing the Mexico-Texas border, lacks the strength to carry such a weighty subject. The problem is achingly bland leading man Jake Allyn. Allyn captures an appropriately deer in the headlights manner for his character, Jackson, but that's about it.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Brothers by Blood'
Brothers by Blood is yet another in a long line of dreary, mopey crime movies. Not that crime movies should be sunny by any stretch. Rather, I just feel as if I suffer more of these dreary, sad, gray, grimy crime movies year after year after year and no one making them ever seems to find a way to liven up the proceedings. Brothers by Blood has a funereal pace that is the exact opposite of lively.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Flinch'
“She didn’t flinch.” That’s the reason that professional killer, Joe Doyle (Daniel Zovatto) gives to his mother (Cathy Moriarty) for why he didn’t kill a witness to a murder he committed. It’s based off of a superstition passed down to Joe from his father (Steven Bauer), himself a killer. Joe’s father once let a man go because that man, whom Dad was going to kill, didn’t flinch. To Joe’s dad, that meant that the man had something in him, something to live for.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Our Friend'
A poignant time-shifting look at grief, loss and friendship, the new drama, Our Friend, is deeply moving. The film features star turns from Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson and, in perhaps the most unexpected and nuanced performance from funnyman Jason Segal. Segal has done dramatic work before, he very well portrayed the loss of a father on the TV series How I Met Your Mother and, in 2017 he stood out playing legendarily troubled author David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Locked Down' is Much More Fun than You Think
In the first of what we can imagine will be a spate of movies involving lockdowns and the Coronavirus, HBO’s newest original film, Locked Down stars Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It’s London at the start of the pandemic lockdown. For those not aware, England’s lockdown was much more strict than here in America. Thus when married couple Linda and Paxton decided they were going to separate from each other, things got held up by the virus.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Outside the Wire' Has Netflix Year of Originals Off to a Slow Start
Outside the Wire stars Damson Idris as Lt Thomas ‘Harp’ Harper, a headstrong drone pilot. When a mission appears to be going sideways and a missile laden vehicle appears ready to wipe out an entire platoon, Harp violates orders and uses his drone weapons to eliminate the threat. However, the cost is the lives of two Marines that the platoon was attempting to save before the drone strike came. Harp killed two men in order to save 36 and that is all that saves him from a court martial for violating orders.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
