Sean Axmaker

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For 886 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Sean Axmaker's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Emitaï
Lowest review score: 0 Urban Legends: Final Cut
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 534 out of 886
  2. Mixed: 299 out of 886
  3. Negative: 53 out of 886
886 movie reviews
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Lucky Ones
    Burger is so respectful of the trio that he never gets under their skin. Apart from the generosity of strangers who pay tribute to the soldiers with little acts of kindness, you get the same generic observations of any road movie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Towelhead
    Ball's snide humor and cynical arrogance undercut his message at every turn.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Honey
    First-time director Billie Woodruff, a music video veteran, busts his moves in the dance scenes while the movie throbs to the beat of the wall-to-wall soundtrack.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Barnyard
    It's bright, colorful and udder-ly unmemorable.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Four Christmases
    Neither clever nor heartwarming, Four Christmases is the coal in the stocking of holiday movies.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Baby Boy
    It's more ambitious and passionate than thoughtful. Singleton is better at criticizing than understanding, and he leaves too many characters lacking a legitimate voice.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Rock Star
    Rock Star roars to life with a promise of something inspired and inventive whenever Wahlberg leaps onstage. Offstage, however, even he can't breathe life into this same old song.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Before Night Falls
    Under Schnabel's direction, it becomes stilted and static, if not simplistic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Bomb the System
    The film half-heartedly paints their actions as rebel-chic heroism even when it has all the integrity of tomcats spraying outside their yards, and it ends up just as confused as the characters.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Fay Grim
    Too hip to play it straight and too cool to resort to an actual story, Hartley turns the whole rambling spy game into a puzzle box where every certainty is thrown into doubt, every character has a hidden motive, and every clue is contradicted.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Godzilla 2000
    Its one saving grace is Godzilla himself, the James Bond of giant monsters.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Herman's intentions are admirable, but his results are unsettling in the worst ways.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Memories of Murder
    The script is as sloppy as Song's unkempt cop, sprinkled with intriguing ideas and imaginative details that, like the investigation, simply get lost in blind alleys.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Saraband
    Feels like the effort of a tired artist reworking the same themes.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    The Butterfly Effect
    Ashton Kutcher wants to be taken seriously so badly it hurts. So does this metaphysical mess of a movie, a pseudo time-travel drama so complicated it takes more than half an hour just to establish the gimmick. And a gimmick it is.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Imagine Warren Beatty in "Shampoo" by way of a Jewish Rambo.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Before the Rains
    Sivan makes it all quite beautiful with verdant imagery and tastefully melodramatic direction, but at the cost of emotional and social ambiguities, not to mention living, breathing characters.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Club Dread
    The new parody from the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, takes another swipe at the corpse armed with the same old weapons. This time, rigor mortis has set in.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Enchanted
    Given the possibilities it's not particularly inventive, but it is nice to see a comedy so affectionate with the conventions it spoofs.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Devil's Rejects
    A canny but hollow pastiche.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    What's Cooking?
    If Chadha never quite overcomes her cliches, her good-natured humor and familial faith gives it a warm, winsome dimension.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Behind the Sun
    It's all so visceral that it overwhelms the near-abstract story and smothers what passes for characters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Urbania
    At its best when exploring grieving and loss and anger, but Shear turns it into spiritual shock treatment.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    DysFunktional Family
    Many will find Griffin profane, sexist and decidedly offensive. Many more will find his raunchy insights inspired, his body language hilarious and his gift for mimicry and caricature worth the entire show.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Imaginary Heroes
    Weaver was half-heartedly pushed as an underdog Oscar choice. If the film was worthy of her performance, Weaver may have had a shot.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Welcome to Collinwood
    A diversion so soggy that even the few combustible comic disasters fail to light a flame under the lukewarm laughs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    The Ringer
    Not extreme enough to skate the edge of tasteless farce and not straight enough to play the material for edgy satire, The Ringer is a cheat right down to the final stretch. Breaking the rules should be more fun than this.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Passion of Mind
    Though a hypnotically beautiful film, it's dramatically listless and dull, and completely lacking in passion.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Transsiberian
    It's a little sloppy and full of convenient coincidences, but at its best roils with edgy character tensions.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    The Talent Given Us
    Autobiographical or not, the frankness and family hysteria of this rolling therapy session gets awkwardly intimate and at times tough to endure, as much for its raw candor as for its confessional contrivance. Too bad the revelations of past mistakes are more interesting than the story played out screen.
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