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
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    My Kid Could Paint That
    It's a dissection of how the media found and fed and nurtured the story in their insatiable need for content to fill their news hours and talk shows, how it just as quickly turned on them and transformed the story from celebration to vilification, and how the public turned right along with them.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    Two Lovers
    Joaquin Phoenix is as good as he has ever been in James Gray's Two Lovers, a discomfortingly honest drama about the frustrations of love and desire.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    My Country, My Country
    When Riyadh's family jokes about the purple stain that marks them as resistance targets after they vote, the black humor speaks volumes about them as individuals, as Sunnis and as Iraqis with a dream of a better way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    A Matter of Taste
    Deliciously dark tale of insidious seduction.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Such a Long Journey
    Gunnarsson masterfully weaves these strands into a bold, multilayered tapestry surrounding a powerful story.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Linda Linda Linda
    Where you might expect either overheated teen melodrama or cartoonish farce, Nobuhiro creates a lively, engaging, character-driven piece with flourishes of offbeat humor dancing around the dynamics of the foursome as they pull together in rehearsals.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Tully
    A few scenes are a bit coy and the "big secrets" threaten to pitch into melodrama, but Birmingham keeps bringing the film back to the delicate dynamics of the relationships at its heart.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    A Scanner Darkly
    The film is weirdly fascinating in its own maverick way.
    • 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
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Inland Empire
    Those willing to give themselves up to Lynch's sensibilities will find a hypnotic and richly textural experience that challenges them to make their own connections through the imagery, echoes of repeated dialogue and metaphor.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Captures the pain and desperation of adolescent powerlessness and humiliation with powerful intimacy, strung out to almost 2 1/2 lazy hours of stories that wander through an ever-widening group of characters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    I'm Not There.
    Faced with an artist defined more by his lyrics than his life story, Haynes delivers a song-cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture still looking to define him.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Madagascar
    It could be more involving, but it's funny enough that you won't care.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    Dark farce, a four-handed game of sexual trumps.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    The Bourne Supremacy
    Delivers the expected adrenaline-driven thrills with a fresh eye and a refreshing attitude.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Somersault
    The annoying shaky-cam style so common to such indie dramas is toned down to a dreamy sway and the image drifts in and out of focus in scenes of heightened emotions. It's like waking from a daze and getting your bearings; the effect is both unsettling and calming.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Urbania
    At its best when exploring grieving and loss and anger, but Shear turns it into spiritual shock treatment.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Last Life in the Universe
    It becomes a dreamy study in stillness broken by suicide fantasies, flashbacks, and the hired killers, but even the violence has a meditative even melancholy quality to it, as if it's all been processed through the eyes of its Zen hero.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Exiled
    It's a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it's a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Space Cowboys
    I guess there's something grizzled old codgers like Clint can teach those young hotshots after all.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Titanic Town
    Michell captures the awkwardness of real-world behavior with gentle, unforced humor.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    The Scandal
    What it lacks in melodramatic punch it makes up for in unexpected shadings in the characters, predator and victim alike.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Alias Betty
    In today's cynical cinematic climate, there's something beautiful in Miller's simple poetic justice.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Three Monkeys
    Ceylan has an unerring gift for camera placement, and his slow, measured scenes can be as hypnotic as they are lovely -- at times, too much so, with the characters constrained by his poetic perfection.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
    Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Tales of the Rat Fink
    The colorful cultural history lesson in an idiosyncratic key is entertaining and informative, if a little indulgent in its adoration of Roth and his counter-car culture.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Densely layered, demanding and beautiful, Ruiz has found the perfect venue for his passions and created the most cinematically breathtaking film of the new millennium.
    • 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.
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