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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    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats, but coming through the sacrifice and suffering is the childlike belief in magic and imagination that for Del Toro represents the hope and optimism of a happily ever after in this cruel world.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    A grueling and deeply affecting human drama.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    Wonderland
    In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    Ratatouille
    Long for an animated feature and too demanding for very young children, but it's also filled with delights.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    WALL-E
    A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    A masterpiece.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Doyle's handheld camerawork is intimate and curious and his hazy colors radiate off the screen.
    • 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.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    The Class
    The young cast, all nonactors who developed their characters with Cantet and Bégaudeau, brings the weight of full lives to each of the students.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    No Country for Old Men
    Strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Baran
    The faces of its inarticulate characters tell the story, and Majidi has put some amazing faces on the screen.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    When it was released in the United States more than 30 years ago, its distributor hacked away 40 minutes of its precise structure. This rerelease restores every meticulous second of Melville's cinematic fantasy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Pulse
    Kurosawa leaves much of the explanation enigmatic but he fills the film with an eerie emptiness, where suicides erupt out of nowhere and mankind dissolves in an oily smudge of hopelessness, adrift between life and death.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Moolaadé
    As empowering and triumphant a film as you'll see this or any year.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Some may find it slow. I found it utterly spellbinding.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Lost in Translation
    Isn't about a May-December romance or a brief encounter in a faraway place. It's about being alone in a crowd and the power of unexpected friendships.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Waltz with Bashir
    What begins as an introspective odyssey examining the effects of war on the young Israeli soldiers turns into a provocative exposé on the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Before Sunset
    Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Towelhead
    Ball's snide humor and cynical arrogance undercut his message at every turn.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    American Splendor
    In the world of comic-book movies, American Splendor is the real deal, the warts-and-all adventures of the most unlikely hero on the comic stands.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Gosford Park
    In the best Altman manner there are no real heroes and villains, only people trapped by their vanity and ambition and the straitjackets of classism.
    • 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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Capturing the Friedmans
    What's most devastating in Capturing the Friedmans is how Jarecki puts the sureness of justice into doubt as he shows Truth (with a capital T) at the mercy of perspective and perception, context and emotion.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Persepolis
    Fascinating memoir of coming of age in Iran.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    The Best of Youth
    Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Lost Embrace
    A film of minor pleasures.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    The Lives of Others
    Mühe's performance is brilliant, communicating more turmoil and pain with the droop of a lip and a flicker of the eye across an otherwise intently passive face than all the emotional storms of the cast.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Y Tu Mamá También
    A vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    I'm Going Home
    Oliviera's mastery is a joy to experience and his bittersweet comic touch adds a loving absurdity to what could have turned maudlin or morose.
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