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: '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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 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 Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Ranking Quentin Tarantino
On the most recent episode of the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast, myself and co-host Bob Zerull, ranked our Top 10 Quentin Tarantino movies. That's a controversial number, 10, in the career of Quentin Tarantino. The auteur has stated that 10 movies would be a great way for him to finish his career, a nice round number.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
TV Movie Review: Tamala Jones Outshines Low Rent 'Deadly Dispatch'
Deadly Dispatch is a title so remarkably dull that I struggle to remember it. It's a title so banal that it is actually befitting of this movie, which, aside from star Tamala Jones, is an utterly banal exercise in TV movie dramatics. The story is witless and the delivery barely rises above the level of a reenactment from an episode of Forensic Files.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Art of Self Defense' Is a Strange Failure of Tone
The Art of Self Defense defied my attempts to like it. I wanted to enjoy the odd tone and the strange sense of humor of writer-director Riley Stearns. I wanted to enjoy the hipster send up of masculinity that is at the core of The Art of Self Defense, but the film's highly self-conscious style kept putting me at a distance before finally, with nothing to grasp onto aside from an appreciation of the style of the film, I finally left defeated and deflated.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Song Review: "To a T" Is One of the Worst Songs I've Ever Heard
What is my review of Ryan Hurd’s new single "To a T?" It’s the longest two minutes and 58 seconds of my life. This limp, lifeless bit of modern country, or is it Hot AC? Does that radio designation even exist anymore? I digress, this limp, lifeless song is populated by some truly lame romantic platitudes lost in a sea of sad guitar, and deeply uninspired electronica backing tracks. I’ve heard some terrible pop songs in my time, but "To a T" is a classic in hate-listening history.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Beat
TV Movie Review: 'Loved to Death' Is the Least Crazy TV One TV Movie Yet
My growing obsession with TV One and their brand of uniquely insane TV movies sadly may be cooling off. After the wild camp of Bobby DeBarge, the utter ludicrousness of Sins of the Father and the utterly bonkers final minutes of In Broad Daylight, TV One finally aims for a respectable TV movie with Loved to Death and I find myself a little bummed out.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Criminal
