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: 'Continental Divide' starring John Belushi
This will not be a widely held opinion, but it’s mine: Continental Divide is my favorite John Belushi movie. Don’t misunderstand, I enjoy Bluto Blutarsky and the comic shenanigans of Animal House but that’s not the best of Belushi. The Blue Brothers? You’re going to hate me, but The Blues Brothers is a desperately overrated vanity piece. No, for me, Continental Divide, the mostly forgotten 1981 romantic comedy from director Michael Apted gave John Belushi the best vehicle for his talents.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Pieces of a Woman' One of Netflix Best Originals
Pieces of a Woman may be the best Netflix movie of 2020. That’s a shockingly short list however as Netflix has been rather slipshod when it comes to their original pieces in 2020. Movies such as Hillbilly Elegy, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and The Devil All the Time have been hit and miss fare with Hillbilly Elegy as a significant miss. Movies such as the remake of The Boys in the Band and the fresh comedy The 40 Year old Version have been highlights but until now, the company had yet to produce anything nearly as transcendent as 2019’s incredible Marriage Story.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Soul' Another Triumph for Disney/Pixar
Disney and Pixar have done it again. The brilliant team at Pixar have created yet another masterwork. Soul is the kind of thoughtful, deeply felt and warm work of art that Pixar has become known for. The formula is perhaps, overly familiar, sticking to mainly two quibbling characters in a relatively predictable series of events, but nevertheless, Soul has the best qualities of a Pixar movie well in place.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Hillbilly Elegy'
Hillbilly Elegy is a deeply overwrought and desperately misguided burlesque of backwoods Americana. An over the top Amy Adams and a downright silly Glenn Close chew scenery as they try to fill the void at the center of a movie based on one of the more dull and forgettable bestselling memoirs I’ve ever read. That Hillbilly Elegy was directed by someone as clever and steeped in Americana as Ron Howard is genuinely baffling.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Sound of Metal'
The Sound of Metal has a premise unlike any other I can recall seeing in a mainstream feature. The film stars Riz Ahmed as a man who loses his hearing. He goes from being a heavy metal drummer to being almost completely deaf in a matter of days and it is a harrowing tale. This would be traumatizing for just about anyone but a musician losing their hearing suddenly and without warning, the trauma is almost unimaginable.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Visual Filmmaking in Russell Crowe's 'Unhinged'
A man sits sweating in his pickup truck in a suburban neighborhood. Distress is written across his face and a jumpy camera helps communicate his jumbled mental state. The man pops some unnamed pills from prescription bottles and begins to settle down. The man pulls out a match and lights it with his thumb. We get a shot of a suburban home with a for sale sign in the yard. Just from the visual cues alone you know where we are and what is about to happen.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Twentieth Century'
The Twentieth Century is a truly bizarre movie. Set in Canada at the turn of the century that gives the movie its name, The Twentieth Century follows protagonist William Lyon Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne) on his roundabout journey to become Canadian Prime Minister. That’s an accurate thumbnail sketch of the plot of The Twentieth Century but it most certainly does not prepare you for the crazy you will encounter in this brilliantly bizarre movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Vanguard' Shows Jackie Chan's Still Got Some Action Star Left
Vanguard is Jackie Chan’s long awaited reunion with his Rumble in the Bronx and Super-Cop director Stanley Tong. The two made monster hits back in the nineties before Jackie found success in the United States with the Rush Hour movies. Jackie has since seen his American fortunes dwindle as he has advanced in age. A return to Tong and a well funded Chinese production is quite a smart and, it turns out, successful move.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Run' Finally Debuts on Hulu
Run is one of many 2020 movie releases that was hit hard by COVID-19 schedule shuffling. I first wrote about Run back in March when the film was set to be released in theaters over the Mother’s Day weekend in May. Then the theaters shutdown due to COVID-19 and the movie release schedule became a game of whack-o-mole with movies bouncing from one weekend to the next in search of time when audiences would be willing to leave the house again and brave the movie theater.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ammonite'
Comedian Eddie Izzard has a brilliant bit in one of his many stand up specials about British movies. In the bit Izzard describes the charged drama but also the stiff upper lip, deeply coded and guarded approach to presenting that drama. It boils down to one person in a room and another entering the room and a series of awkward silences ensues while one character sorts matches. Switch matches for scraping mud off of rocks and you have a good description of the new drama Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Point and Purpose: 'Dirty Harry' Gets Lucky
This week's classic on the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast is Clint Eastwood's 1971 cop movie, Dirty Harry. The film launched Eastwood as a bankable movie star and franchise head before such a thing even existed. And yet, the reason Eastwood became an icon, one line of dialogue that turned an otherwise unremarkable action movie into a beloved genre 'classic' is a scene that really doesn't belong in the movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Last Three Days' is a Shabby Little Time Travel Thriller
Last Three Days is a low rent bit of action-fantasy nonsense. This time travel cop fantasy toys with time so much that it becomes impossible to follow if you aren’t paying careful attention to it. And, because none of the performances are particularly compelling, attention is not something this movie will be paid. Because this is an obnoxiously amateur in production, Last Three Days is a blur of boring dialogue and dull characters amid a misguided and confounding plot.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
