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
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Forty Shades of Blue
    The song may be somewhat familiar, but Sach gets understated performances from his entire cast and finds interesting harmonies as they play out their clashing duets.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Operator
    Utter lack of irony and curiosity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Dan in Real Life
    The cozy, lived-in atmosphere created by the ensemble and the unlikely chemistry of Carell and Binoche are so genuine that you wish the rest of the film was just as effortless and authentic.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Road Trip
    This is a familiar journey and director/co-writer Todd Phillips sidesteps every opportunity to inject a little edge or originality into it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    102 Dalmatians
    Harmless and thoroughly unmemorable: colorful, cute, fast paced, and about as involving as an amusement park ride.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Grind
    Director Casey La Scala directs with enough energy to carry the odyssey over the next ramp, but for all the eagerness of the performances, the conviction is strictly prepackaged.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Backseat
    Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness. In the scheme of their lives, this journey is just a speed bump, jolting them awake for a brief moment. The rest is up to them.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Push
    Mostly it's a series of dream-image clues scribbled out by juvenile seer Fanning, followed by super-powered smackdowns between agents and mercenaries with slangy titles like watchers, stitchers and sniffers.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Collateral Damage
    It's about as convincing as any other Arnie musclefest, but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Sean Axmaker
    Turn It Up
    Glib, sense-numbing action fantasy.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Saving Silverman
    The film is a shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon, the usual mix of slapstick, doofus humor and raunchy sex jokes lacking even the bite or attitude to make it adventurous.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Friday Night
    The most sensuous and intimate work of cinema of the past few years, a film that luxuriates in the immediacy of the moment. There is no guilt to the act, only exhilaration, joy and freedom. At least for the moment.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Zack and Miri is funny, and Rogen is a natural as Smith's alter-ego, spewing profane dialogue like he was born to it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    White Chicks
    For a film that uses race, class and sexual stereotypes as the starting point, this is disappointingly skin deep.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    The Gleaners & I
    Varda sees herself as a gleaner as she searches for the people and cultural activities missed by the rest of the media.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Girl on the Bridge
    It's a gloriously baroque vision and Leconte believes in his sequin and sawdust fantasy with such unabashed enthusiasm that he makes it work even through its most absurd moments.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    The Hunted
    All about the thrill of the chase, and Friedkin challenges the antiseptic spectacle and fantasy flamboyance of computer-enhanced blockbusters with a lean, mean manhunt thriller and gritty, hard-edged style.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Nothing Like the Holidays
    Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit "Four Christmases").
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Ju-on: The Grudge
    For all of its weakness, Ju-On: The Grudge is creepy and unnerving, qualities in short supply in gore-filled American horror films.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Lords of Dogtown
    An excellent documentary equal parts extreme sports and social anthropology.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    A celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 33 Sean Axmaker
    The Condemned
    A sloppy, indifferent action movie with a sadistic edge and a sour hypocrisy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Broken English
    There's not a lot of story here and the dialogue lacks the snap one usually gets in New York stories of affluent young adults, but the characters have an authenticity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    51 Birch Street
    51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Mr 3000
    As fresh as a highlight reel of day-after replays, Mr. 3000 is a case of major-league talent stuck in a minor-league story.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Hamlet
    Fresh, vibrant and vital, this interpretation reminds us why Shakespeare is timeless.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Innocent Voices
    For such a harrowing portrait, Mandoki remains oddly distant but for a few scenes. He makes his points boldly when he should be making his points sting.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Blade II
    This vampire story is as soulless as they get.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Lucky Number Slevin
    It's the soulless quality of so many films that value devious plots, smug deception and quirky personality traits over actual story and character.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Turistas
    The result of this blender mash of exotic horror isn't much of anything at all, neither suspenseful, terrifying or inventively gory: Turistas is dead on arrival.
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