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: 'One Bedroom' Is a Bittersweet Slice of Life
One Bedroom opens in a jarring but effective fashion. This movie about a breakup between a couple after five years of living together in a small corner of an ever more gentrified part of Brooklyn, New York, opens with a slam poem about gentrification. The movie isn't about the strange and often unwelcome changes in New York City neighborhoods, but the raw energy and forcefulness of the poem, delivered by actress and model DeAriesha Mack directly to the camera, sets a tone of forceful dialogue that will be the hallmark of One Bedroom.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Humans
Movie Review: 'Supervized' Mines Laughs From Aging Superhero Gags
Supervized stars Tom Berenger as Ray AKA Maximum Justice. Ray is a resident of a nursing home in Ireland, for reasons unexplained, and he’s formerly one of the most beloved superheroes in the world. Alongside his partner Shimmy, AKA Ted (Beau Bridges), Ray used to save the world from all manner of world ending threats. Nowadays, Ray is more likely to use his mastermind control powers to change the channel, so he doesn’t have to retrieve the remote.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
The Best Movies of 2019 So Far...
I’ve seen more than 73 wide releases in 2019, but according to Wikipedia, these are the wide release movies and Netflix releases that I have seen this year between January first and July 15, 2019. This seems like the perfect time to look at the list, and see where we are in 2019 in terms of the wide releases of the year. What can we learn, what has 2019 wrought at the multiplex.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Crawl'
Crawl stars Kaya Scoledario as Haley, a college student in Florida. Haley is at the University of Florida on a swimming scholarship, and she's struggling. Haley's times are slowing down, and she's worried that she may lose her scholarship. Haley receives a Facetime call from her sister, Beth (Morfydd Clark) asking her about a hurricane that is hovering over Florida.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
TV Movie Review: 'In Broad Daylight' Is TV One At Its Melodramatic Best
Okay, I am becoming obsessed with TV One melodramas. First there was the earnest and sad comedy of The Bobby DeBarge Story, and then, on July seventh, there was the incredibly odd, but incredibly watchable Sins of the Father. Now, on July 14, comes In Broad Daylight, the latest TV One movie of the week, and once again TV One has crafted a drama so remarkably strange and watchable that it almost defies description.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable' A Portrait of Determination and Faith
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable is moving and entertaining. The young lady, known once as the ‘Soul Surfer’ is all grown up, married, and a mom today. And, Bethany Hamilton is damn sure still a surfer and despite everything, she remains one of the great surfers in the world. It’s a remarkable story and one exceptionally well captured by Director Aaron Lieber. With gorgeous underwater photography and Bethany telling her own story, we get the best glimpse yet of her exceptional life in Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'The Virgin Spring', 'The Divine Comedy' and The Seven Deadly Sins
The classic on this week's episode of the Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast is Ingmar Bergman's remarkable 1960 revenge film, The Virgin Spring. Mainstream audiences know The Virgin Spring as the movie that famously inspired Wes Craven to make his violent, mysoginist, hateful, horror debut The Last House on the Left.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
TV Movie Review: 'Sins of the Father'
Sins of the Father has no right to be this damn entertaining. This low budget, trashy, sloppy, TV movie mystery is in the tradition of daytime TV drama, brimming with forced melodramatics and a completely unintended sense of humor. I went into Sins of the Father prepared to roll my eyes and write a dismissive, mocking review of the movie, and came out wanting to tell the world to watch it.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
5 Takeaways from the First Trailer for 'Knives Out'
For the record, I really enjoyed The Last Jedi. I thought that director Rian Johnson knocked that Star Wars story out of the park with bold narrative choices, strong visuals, and a modest, but palpable sense of humor and fun. My fellow critics appear to agree with me for, the most part, but a venomous, vocal group of Star Wars fans has nevertheless fouled much of the memory of The Last Jedi with their toxic takes on the movie.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Criminal
Movie Review: 'Midsommar' Is the Best Movie of 2019
Midsommar absolutely wrecked me. Writer-director Ari Aster is a visionary artist, and his vision here is among the most disquieting and disturbing that this reviewer has seen since, no joke, Cannibal Holocaust. I have a controversial opinion of Cannibal Holocaust, I think it is rather brilliant. I have long thought of how amazing it would be to see a great director take on such challenging material. Ari Aster has done that, he’s taken highly subversive ideas and imagery, and applied a master's eye to them, and the result is a stunning work.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Annabelle Comes Home' Relies on Too Many Jump Scares
Annabelle Comes Home is a unique dichotomy. This is arguably the best that The Conjuring franchise has delivered thus far in terms of tension and intentions and yet, it’s still not very good. Despite offering better characters and a tiny bit more rationale for why villainous ghosts and demons act as they do, Annabelle Comes Home still fails due to an over-reliance on jump scares and a lack of ambition in storytelling.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Five Takeaways from the First Trailer for 'Jumanji: The Next Level'
Jumanji is back and headed to The Next Level this December. Yes. the rather shortly awaited sequel to the 2017 blockbuster reboot, Jumanji: The Next Level, will be ready for theaters by the end of this year, and the marketing push for the movie begins now with the very first trailer setting up how our heroes wind up back in the game and where the new adventure is set to take them and us.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Geeks
