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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Saraband
    Feels like the effort of a tired artist reworking the same themes.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    One Last Thing...
    For all of its admirable intentions, the awkward melding of movie-of-the-week tragedy, non-denominational salvation drama and teen sex comedy mistakes banality for conviction.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Smokin' Aces
    Smokin' Aces isn't a story, it's a premise with a madhouse of characters flung into a collision course that ends at the same finish line.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Austin Powers in Goldmember
    It's often quite funny (when it's not spinning its wheels in rehashed skits and recycled gags), but when Myers gets his mojo working and his mind out of the toilet, he's capable of better.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    A Lot Like Love
    It is charming and at times disarmingly surprising.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Not as cool as the first.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Hair High
    When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise and marks time between his ideas.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    The Princess and the Warrior
    When (Tykwer) connects it's exhilarating and gorgeous, a sight to behold.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Skulls
    Cohen drives the film at a galloping pace, but it's not fast enough to outrun its absurdity.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Unaccompanied Minors
    Black's apoplectic fits and sardonic rants are strictly a bonus for the parents dragged along for the adolescent shenanigans.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    One
    This restrained drama of lifelong friends drifting in separate directions is a quietly rich and resonant portrait of disconnection.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Blunt, somewhat artless, but very effective.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    All processed sugar and artificial flavor, right down to the sticky but tasteless happy ending.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The results are shapeless, excessively lurid and often unpleasant, with Argento shamelessly vamping the white-trash junkie mother and truck-stop hooker. She apparently forgot whose story she was telling.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    Blackboards
    The stripped-down dramatic constructs, austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics, obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Urbania
    At its best when exploring grieving and loss and anger, but Shear turns it into spiritual shock treatment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Vitus
    The film ultimately swindles its own story.
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Beautiful Creatures
    Pitches itself somewhere between "Bound" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," trying to add a feminist twist to the spate of Britain's bloody gangster thrillers and never quite succeeding.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    Sweet, sexy, and unexpectedly enchanting, Yana's Friends is the little feel-good comedy that could.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Confidence
    Delivers a clever confidence game, if not much else.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Two Weeks
    It's messy and painful, eased only the admirable modesty of Stockman's writing and direction.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Sean Axmaker
    The Host
    The sudden turns of temperament are a treat after the smart-ass attitude of American horror flicks, and the film is full of minor surprises, squirming in unexpected directions without leaving the conventions behind.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Gunner Palace
    The ironies and contradictions that give the first half a dark humor give way to gravity and respect as soldiers are killed (off camera).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    It's colorful and determinedly kooky, with "Kung Fu" references and an H.R. Pufnstuf interlude between performances.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    It makes for an unusual angle on the era, and a passionate paean to the power of books, ideas and art.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Winter Passing
    There isn't a spark in the familiar emotional situation or a reason to care how these amiably bland characters end up.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    TMNT
    The story -- something to do with an ancient evil returning after 3,000 years -- plays like a multi-episode story arc of the TV series.
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