Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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For 884 reviews, this critic has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7 points higher than other critics.
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Sean Axmaker's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 532 out of 884
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Mixed: 299 out of 884
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Negative: 53 out of 884
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movie reviews
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Sean Axmaker 83
Venus is the second film from director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi to explore the sexual lives of folk that the movies treat as sexless -- the elderly. But where "The Mother" was a cold film of sexual greed and emotional pettiness, this robust yet delicate comic drama finds a kind of dignity in the old lothario whose vital life force struggles against a failing body. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
It has a tendency to overextend its outrageous arias, but this pop-art confection both spoofs and celebrates the crazy conventions of movie melodramas and genre cinema with pure affection. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Hot Fuzz is something all too rare in movie comedies: a story rather than a string of disjointed skits, with hearty characters behind its caricatures. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
There's nothing messy or unkempt about the beautifully, quietly heartbreaking story of unconditional love and emotional sacrifice. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Where you might expect either overheated teen melodrama or cartoonish farce, Nobuhiro creates a lively, engaging, character-driven piece with flourishes of offbeat humor dancing around the dynamics of the foursome as they pull together in rehearsals. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
These are mortal souls and unglamorous bodies and Ferran explores their affair in its earthy, physical and fleshy reality. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
With less lampooning and satirical asides, Sicko may be less "entertaining" than Moore's previous films, but it's also more affecting and effective. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
You don't have to be a teenager to appreciate the raunchy humor and the uninhibited overkill of Seth's porn-obsessed chatter, though it probably helps to be a guy. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
It's a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it's a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
The restraint of both director and actor makes this steely gangster drama reverberate long after it ends. This kind of mystery is rare in a film culture that demands answers before the credits roll. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
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. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Mamet is more respectful than exciting as an action director, but his fascination with how things work, be it the mechanics of designing and promoting a big pay-per-view event or battling a world-class Jiu-jitsu master, makes it all quite mesmerizing. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
An engaging and generous profile of the fascinating folks who have chosen to live at the end of the world. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
One of the most hilarious and engaging films from producer Judd Apatow's often inconsistent comedy factory, thanks to inspired dialogue, dynamite chemistry between Rogen and Franco and perfectly pitched stoner gags (undoubtedly the result of copious research). -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Hammer filmed on location with local nonactors. Their lack of polish is evident -- Smith's inexpressiveness, though part of his character, is simply blank at times -- but their conviction can be just as powerful. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
It's a little long and dissipates some of its power in an unfocused subplot, but the skewed sensibility of the film is both innocent and feral and offers a smart and satisfying reworking to the familiar genre. An American remake is already in the works. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
It's all about Guevara's education as a revolutionary and his development as a leader in the jungles and in battle. -
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Sean Axmaker 83
Ceylan has an unerring gift for camera placement, and his slow, measured scenes can be as hypnotic as they are lovely -- at times, too much so, with the characters constrained by his poetic perfection. -
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Sean Axmaker 75
Hip-hop is not the beat I dance to, but you don't need to be immersed in the culture to understand the heartbeat it sets in the lives of Brown Sugar's main characters. -
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Sean Axmaker 75
Eight Legged Freaks is a B-movie-and-proud-of-it thrill ride, probably the best of its kind since "Tremors." It does just what a good creature feature is supposed to do: It entertains with laughs, gasps, gooey spectacle and a bemused sense of fun. -
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Sean Axmaker 75
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. -
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Sean Axmaker 75
He (Chan) still can turn a silly little action comedy like this into a high-spirited, butt-kicking good time. -
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Sean Axmaker 75
This tale of kooky social misfits finding their place in the world is an audience pleaser, for all the reasons such tales usually are. -
