Sean Nam
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57% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points lower than other critics.
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Sean Nam's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 63 | |
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| Highest review score: | The King and the Mockingbird | |
| Lowest review score: | The World Made Straight | |
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- Sean Nam
For all its congratulatory spirit, the film has the persistent feeling of an elegy bidding adieu to a bygone time.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2016
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- Sean Nam
Atom Egoyan is only interested in using the Holocaust as fodder for carrot-dangling plot contrivances.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 9, 2016
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- Sean Nam
The absence of a central narrator for the most part prevents the film from devolving into gratuitous pedagogy.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 4, 2016
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- Sean Nam
It's to Britni West's credit that she's yoked the film's experimental sequences with the hard reality of characters trying to figure things out.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2015
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- Sean Nam
Writer-director Daniel Peddle's anthropological concerns never really wed themselves to a sturdy narrative bedrock.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 27, 2015
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- Sean Nam
The moody lighting and the ubiquity of deciduous trees provide a canvas for bracing drama, but the film undoes itself by its desire to impart revelatory history lessons.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 5, 2015
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- Sean Nam
If the film were to propose a mandate for animation, it would be what the medium's etymology has longed suggested: to make the inanimate full of life.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 19, 2014
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