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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    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    An American Rhapsody
    The result is a heartfelt film brimming with ideas and passion but hampered by a literal approach that douses the emotional heat.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Jeepers Creepers
    Salva spins a backwoods serial killer setup into something really scary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Love Liza
    Less a story than a film of emotional textures, this is a study in stasis.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Sean Axmaker
    Unbreakable
    A potentially interesting idea deflated by the absurd proclamations of an arch screenplay and smothered under the ponderous gravity of M. Night Shyamalan's dreary direction.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Nacho Libre
    It's weird, clean, good-natured fun, and it's far too subdued for its madcap milieu.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    The Upside of Anger
    The film never earns the irony of the title or offers anything profound in its observations of fractured family dynamics in an atmosphere of lingering resentment, but Allen and Costner enrich and elevate the film and give the growth of their characters a hard-earned gravitas.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    21
    A thoroughly ordinary drama of temptation, dubious redemption and easy revenge.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Grizzly Man
    It's Treadwell's contradictions and controversies that fascinate Herzog the filmmaker, inspiring him to create this enthralling documentary portrait, his best film in years.
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    The Guru
    Offers precious little inspiration, and the only irony it manages is surely unintended.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Iraq in Fragments
    Oregon-born and Seattle-based director James Longley profiles three lives in his impressionistic portrait of Iraq's Sunni, Shia and Kurd communities.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Role Models
    In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    At once an elegy for the communal experience of cinema-going and another quintessentially Tsai portrait of loneliness and isolation.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    The Girl from Monday
    Hartley's soft spot for offbeat romances is trumped by irony and sloganeering dialogue.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    The Golden Bowl
    The restraint so magnificently applied in "The Remains of the Day" has simply fallen into disconnection.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    Iron Island
    Director Mohammad Rasoulof has fashioned the ultimate metaphor for a society adrift from its culture.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Brotherhood of the Wolf
    At 140 minutes, the film becomes a humorless, long-winded spectacle.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    American Wedding
    It's often helplessly hilarious in its adolescent gross-out way, yet the cast periodically invests the film with sweetness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Sean Axmaker
    A Christmas Tale
    The most emotionally rich and cinematically thrilling film I've seen all year, a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    An anti-war spectacle that uses the story of brothers divided by the 1950 civil war as a metaphor for the wounds of the split.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Sean Axmaker
    Green Street Hooligans
    It becomes simply another banal gang film so familiar and predictable you have to wonder why so much potential is wasted on such a confused dramatic mess.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Sean Axmaker
    Margot at the Wedding
    While Margot's casual cruelty and the scenes of squirmy discomfort are sometimes painful to watch, the rendering of this disastrous family reunion is seriously, savagely droll.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    Pride and Glory
    You can feel the debt to Sidney Lumet's '70s studies in police corruption and cop brotherhood, but O'Connor never captures the edge of danger, anger and moral stands being ground up in compromise.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Sean Axmaker
    Monster's Ball
    For all its darkness and tragedy, Monster's Ball is a film that wants to be liked and Forster stumbles over his good intentions to win the audience over.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    ATL
    Robinson makes these characters breathe, and they bring the film to life.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    John Q
    Washington's fire and righteous anger can only do so much, and the token grit amounts to a few grains of sand in the sentimental machinery.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Sean Axmaker
    EuroTrip
    Yet for all the debauchery, there's a juvenile candor in its knowing embrace of teen sex comedy cliches, as if the entire film is just one of Scott's fantasies. You half expect him to jolt awake at the end, and why not? The film fades just like a half-remembered dream.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Sean Axmaker
    The Cave
    The utter lack of tension or suspense is as dumbfounding as Hunt's blender approach to editing, which purees action scenes into incoherent mashes of image confetti.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Sean Axmaker
    Year of the Dog
    The curious character study is a comedy in a minor key, but for all White's fascination with Peggy, he brings little conviction to the healing message under all this creepiness and social awkwardness, beyond what Shannon brings to the role.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 67 Sean Axmaker
    Friday After Next
    There's nothing sophisticated or inventive about it, but Cube has fun with his characters and first-time director Marcus Raboy drives the film with enough momentum and energy to make the gags flow together almost like a real story. That's enough to carry it through another Friday.
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