Sean Patrick
Bio
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 'The Kitchen' Sinks
The Kitchen is a stultifying mess of a movie. This failure of tone and purpose features three exceptional actresses starring in the same movie, yet often appearing as if they are in different movies, acting with different purpose. The Kitchen stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss in a story of late 70s mobsters.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Hoax' Shows Dread Central as the Home of Modern Drive-In Horror
A group of attractive young people are getting horny and high in the woods, as one of them begins to tell a campfire story. As the group splits into couples to indulge in their attractive young people-ness, a rumble emerges from the forest. The rumble becomes a roar, and our pretty storyteller is dispatched.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Where'd You Go Bernadette'
Where'd You Go Bernadette? Antarctica. Bernadette went to Antarctica, it's literally in the trailer for the movie. I'm being obtuse and flippant, but Where'd You Go Bernadette inspires such flippancy. This paean to awful rich people without real problems flounders among a set of characters so unlikable or poorly realized that even the effervescent Cate Blanchett is taken down.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 30 Years of 'Uncle Buck'
When I was a kid, I thought Uncle Buck was a good movie. Now, it's the perfect illustration of how, though movies don't change, we do. 30 years later, as an adult with taste, and what I hope is a little sophistication, I can look back on Uncle Buck, and Roger Ebert's review of Uncle Buck, which I disliked at the time, and see that Roger was absolutely right, and I was as immature and childish as this movie.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'One Last Night' Is a Clever Little Romance
Forgive me while I root for the underdog. One Last Night is certainly an underdog of a movie. This low budget movie has four principal cast members, maybe two locations and a budget that could not have been more than a shoestring. What it does have however, is a clever and likable group of actors to pass a very short running time with.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'The Farewell' Is Heartfelt, Bold and Beautiful
Impending death is a daring premise for a movie. It's even more daring when the person who is dying is not aware of their pending demise. The Farewell posits that Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen), the grandmother of Billi (Awkwafina) has an aggressive form of cancer that leaves her with little time left. Chinese custom insists that Nai Nai's family be told about her diagnosis, but that it be kept from her.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' Is Yet Another Bad Dog Movie
The spate of mediocre dog movies in 2019 is threatening to turn me into a cat person. A Dog’s Journey and A Dog’s Way Home are so interchangeably forgettable that, even though I wrote about both movies, I can’t recall how to tell them apart a mere few months later. I can recall that both attempted to pull tears from my eyes with the emotional equivalent of pliers but beyond that, both films are just unmemorable and mediocre.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Petlife
Movie Review: 'BTS: Bring the Soul'
I must admit, I am a little intimidated by the idea of writing about BTS. This Korean boy band, my apologies if that sounds dismissive, that's not my intent, has become the biggest thing in pop music not called "Old Town Road," and they've done so in a way that is very specific to the generation that has embraced it.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: Looking Back at 'The Scorpion King'
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is arguably the biggest movie star on the planet these days, but back in 2002, he was just "The Rock," a professional wrestler who was making the jump from the wrestling ring to the big screen. With the release of Dwayne Johnson's latest blockbuster, Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, it's as good a time as any to look back at when The Rock became Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, movie star.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
First Trailer for Sam Mendes Directed '1917' Released
Director Sam Mendes is headed back to cinemas this Christmas with the release of 1917, and the first trailer has been released. 1917 stars George MacKay, recently of the controversial drama Where Hands Touch, and Dean-Charles Chapman, formerly of Game of Thrones, as soldiers in World War 1 in France.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Serve
Movie Review: 'Lock Up' Turns 30
30 years later, Lock Up is one of those almost entirely forgotten vanity movies of the 1980’s. The film stars Sylvester Stallone in what amounts to what Stallone thinks is a prestige movie. He legit believed in 1989 that Lock Up was the movie that would give him the credibility and legitimacy as an actor he so desperately craved. To his credit, he does give the role his all but the movie is not remotely prestigious or credible.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Criminal
Top 5 Funniest Cursed Items in 'Annabelle Comes Home'
Annabelle Comes Home is winding down its theatrical run after just over a month on the big screen and a successful run at the box office. The latest film in what I have personally dubbed the 'Conjuring-verse,' patent pending, Annabelle Comes Home has brought in over $70 million dollars domestically and more than $200 million dollars worldwide off a production budget reportedly less than $20 million dollars.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Horror