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 'Malcolm & Marie'
I have nothing but love and respect for my critical brethren. It takes a great deal of fortitude to endure the slings and arrows of being a professional film critic. Filmmakers often don’t care for our profession and consider us outsiders, ignorant of their effort and art form. Many movie fans hate us and openly tell us that they seek out movies we don’t like on the assumption that they will like it because we don’t.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Humans
- Top Story - February 2021
Documentary Review: 'ESPN 30 for 30: Al Davis vs the NFL' Top Story - February 2021
ESPN 30 for 30 has become a haven for documentary filmmakers eager to find unique ways to tell familiar stories. The documentary format can tend to be a very homogenous artform, always very similar and familiar in structure and presentation. Thus a series such as 30 for 30 can feel a little rote after a while. To change that, documentary filmmakers need to get creative and find little ways to set themselves apart from the rest.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Unbalanced
Movie Review: 'Earwig and the Witch' Not Your Father's Studio Ghibli Movie
Earwig and the Witch is a significant change of pace for the well known animation brand of Studio Ghibli. After decades of being defined by the grace and style of founder, Hiyao Miyazaki, the master’s retirement means new voices in the lead. One of those new voices is none other than the master’s own son, Goro Miyazaki. In his third directorial feature, Earwig and the Witch, Goro Miyazaki is among the first of Studio Ghibli’s stable to chart a new course for the company.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Little Fish' Combines Dystopia and Romance
Imagine a couple, a very happy couple. Imagine two people who simply belong together, the world just seems right when they are together. Now imagine if those two people completely forgot each other. Suddenly, the beauty and excitement of seeing two incredible people madly in love turns into something dark and gray. The joy that love brings is replaced by a harsh sadness and an almost oppressive emptiness.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Coming to America'
The new trailer for Coming to America 2 dropped on February 3rd. The film marks another attempt by Eddie Murphy to tap his past to profit his future. Released on June 29th, 1988, the original Coming to America was the latest in a string of blockbusters for the former Saturday Night Live comic turned superstar and also the beginning of the end of his run of unmatched 80’s hits. Murphy was, at the time of the release of Coming to America, perhaps the most famous and popular actor in Hollywood.
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: 'Balloon Man'
I have to preface this review by saying that I appreciate that Bill Costen is a good man. He is a kind and thoughtful gentleman as demonstrated in the documentary Balloon Man. The documentary takes you into the life of Bill Costen, a black man who made his life all about flying hot air balloons. That’s quirky and interesting but is it really enough to justify a feature length documentary? Eh….
By Sean Patrick3 years ago in Geeks
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 Patrick3 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 Patrick3 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 Patrick3 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 Patrick3 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 Patrick3 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 Patrick3 years ago in Geeks