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.
Stories (1711/0)
- Top Story - April 2022
Movie Review: 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once' is My Favorite Movie Top Story - April 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is my new favorite movie. This gloriously chaotic comedy drama from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, is an epic of galaxy-brained thought experiments, love, despair, and everything in between. While the Multiverse is a concept most often given over to Marvel movies in our modern pop culture, it’s also a real theoretical and philosophical concept and Everything Everywhere All at Once plays out the theoretical and philosophical concept to an absurdly brilliant degree to explore the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the choices that made them who they are.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: '7 Days' Gives the Pandemic the Romantic Comedy Treatment
7 Days is a romantic comedy set in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, those uncertain days when people thought the virus was everywhere and on everything. Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan star as Ravi and Rita, Indian Americans navigating the traditions of arranged marriage and the American style of dating and dating and dating. When Ravi and Rita were arranged for a date by their marriage-hungry mothers, they had no plans to see each other much past the first date.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Morbius' is the Disaster We All Expected it to Be
Morbius is pretty much the mess that everyone has been predicting since it was announced that the famed Marvel vampire anti-hero was headed to the big screen. Starring Jared Leto, this lurid monster movie fails in many ways but most abundantly as a way of introducing Morbius to Sony’s bargain bin version of the MCU. Who is Michael Morbius? What is his motivation? What is his relationship with Spider-Man? Who the heck knows? I’ve seen this movie and I am more confused than ever.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Kicking Blood' is a Nice Twist on the Vampire Genre
Kicking Blood stars Alanna Bale as Anna, a vampire. Anna has a taste for blood and while she is a murderer, she tends to enact her need for blood on bad people who deserve to have their life force sucked out by a vampire. Her first kill, that we see, is that of a man who works at the same library where Anna works. First, Anna witnesses this jerk breaking the heart of her elderly co-worker all while also acting creepy toward Anna.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Bubble' is a Complete Unfunny Disaster
The Bubble stars Karen Gillan, at the head of an ensemble cast, as a movie star being convinced to return to an action movie franchise she thought that she had left behind. Gillan’s Carol Cobb became a star in the Cliff Beasts franchise and appeared in 4 of the 5 Cliff Beasts films before abandoning the 5th sequel in favor of making a terrible prestige picture where she played a half Israeli, half Palestinian woman at the heart of the middle east crisis. If you can’t see why that’s a problematic role, one look at a picture of Karen Gillan should explain things.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Lost City' is So Much Fun
The Lost City is the movie I needed right now. This delightful comedy about an author struggling with her place in the world and getting pushed back into the world following the death of her husband, several years earlier, finds just the right mix of fun and lovable characters. The scene stealer though is Channing Tatum whose comedy chops have never been put to better use. If you loved his work in 21 and 22 Jumpstreet, then The Lost City is a must see.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'The Sound of Scars' Charts the Emotional Career of Life of Agony
The Sound of Scars is an incredibly emotional documentary. The story behind the band, Life of Agony, The Sound of Scars details the trauma, the heartache, the tragedy and the triumph that created this legendary heavy metal band. I’d never heard of Life of Agony before this documentary, it’s not my kind of music, but after seeing The Sound of Scars, you can count me in as a fan.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Beat
Movie Review: 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is Haunting and Tense
The Yellow Wallpaper opens on a shocking sight. A family of three is in a carriage on their way to a country home for the summer. A mother, a father, and a small baby that will not stop crying. After the husband demands that the wife do something about the crying baby, she picks up the child and hurls it out of the window of the movie carriage. It’s a striking scene, one deeply symbolic of the rest of the movie which takes on postpartum depression through the lens of a horror movie.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Godforsaken' is a Wild Ride of a Horror Movie
Godforsaken looks as if it was made on cellphone cameras on a budget of maybe two bucks. And yet, despite the low budget aesthetic, it’s as bracing and terrifying as any horror movie released in the last several years. This extremely DIY zombie movie crosses horror subgenres and aesthetics and through ingenuity and gusto manages to craft some of the most genuine scares that I have experienced since I became a cynical, seen-it-all before film critic.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Horror
Classic Movie Review: 'Eight Men Out' is the Most Underappreciated Baseball Movie of All Time
With Baseball out of its 2022 Lock Out and getting ready to return for a full 162 game season in April of 2022, I'm looking at some of the greatest Baseball movies ever made. Recently, I made my declaration that Bull Durham is the Greatest Baseball Movie of All Time, check out that review, linked here. Now, I want to talk about a baseball movie that is deeply underappreciated. 1988's Eight Men Out is one of the best sports movies of all time and, in terms of baseball movies, easily the most underappreciated in the sub-genre.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: Heartbreaking 'Topside' Brings Homelessness into a Modern Perspective
Topside is a harrowing story set in the deepest depths of poverty in New York City. In Topside, a mother struggles to raise a young daughter while managing addiction and work as a sex worker. It’s a day to day existence unimaginable to most but real for far too many people whom society has left behind. Topside has a bracing reality to it that adds urgency to the storytelling and admittedly, a pushiness to its drama. That said, the acting goes a long way to make you forget the cajoling nature of the drama.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'Umma' Underwhelms Despite Sandra Oh
Umma stars Sandra Oh as Amanda, a single mother living off the grid somewhere in the southwest of America with her daughter, Chris (Fivel Stewart). Amanda has a desperate aversion to electricity and refuses to power their home. Amanda goes so far as to advise everyone not to even bring cars or cellphones on to her property. This is related to a childhood trauma in which her mother tortured her physically with the frayed cord of an ornate lamp.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Geeks