Sean Axmaker
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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 2 points higher than other critics.
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Sean Axmaker's Scores
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- TV
Average review score: | 67 | |
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Highest review score: | Before Sunset | |
Lowest review score: | Mindhunters |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 533 out of 885
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Mixed: 299 out of 885
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Negative: 53 out of 885
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- Sean Axmaker
Plays largely like a performer's showpiece, with all the showboating and not so surprising character twists that entails, but Stettner comes out the other end with a pleasantly modest and satisfying revelation.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Beautifully observed tale of high-school kids in the projects outside Paris.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
A quirky little film with an offbeat trajectory that rattles through the bones of story with eyes open to the texture of experience and the dimensions of character.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
The underdog story doesn't miss a cliche, even though it never figures out whether it's a boxing picture or a military drama.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
For all of its minor pleasures, this encore lacks the depth of its conviction.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
The kids have good chemistry, there's some fun oddball humor stuck in around the slapstick, and the gorgeous photography of the Gulf Coast beaches, waterways and wildlife brings their mission to life.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Rambling and easygoing, Nico and Dani is a modest but frank look at adolescent lust, both heterosexual and homosexual.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Resembles nothing more than an overstuffed, undernourished "Brady Bunch" episode, only not as funny.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
So stuffed with Maddin-ess that it never manages to get past the glorious surfaces. McKinney strides through his role with a knowing wink, and the sheer volume of creative imagery is as distracting as it is entertaining.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Despite Clement's best efforts to make Jarrod a deadpan oddball nerd, it becomes apparent early on that excessive teenage eccentricity and terminal self-delusion isn't quite as cute in the adult male and absent father.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
While too bland and stupid to be offensive, Never Back Down spouts a hollow message of nonviolence while celebrating the brutal satisfaction of beating the crap out of someone.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Willis and Breslin are stuck in a charmless, predictable picture they can't escape.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Some audiences will find it an endurance test and Reygadas doesn't make it easy with his confrontational imagery, but he provokes emotions not often explored on screen.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
It lacks the invention of Pegg's comedies with Edgar Wright, which buzz and crackle with ideas and energy. This one simply plods through, just like Dennis. Only Pegg's doggedness gets this effort across the finish line.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
I can't imagine how Smith can capture a big enough audience to pay off this private joke, but the inner geek in me had too much fun to care.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Michael Winterbottom's erotic drama isn't so much a story of a love affair as an anatomy of a sexual relationship.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
The most imaginative and delightful computer-animated movie of recent years outside of the Pixar brand, Monster House is a Halloween ghost story by way of monster-movie adventure.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
For all the testosterone-driven soap opera, this entertainingly confused coming-of-age story is a seductive fantasy, a rare portrait of urban underworld machismo without the violence and the viciousness.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
It's more clever than smart, but Paul Fox directs with the same easygoing attitude of its slacker hero and finds some modest truths (also lower case) behind the props.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
The story plays out in the sensuous textures and hypnotic rhythms as the rebellious youth Torres embodies eases into a serenity and acceptance that Montenegro brings so gently to her performance.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Hot Rod is a cousin to the comedies of Will Ferrell (for whom it was developed) with a younger skew, a kooky '80s nostalgia (complete with a pitch-perfect synthesizer score by Trevor Rabin) and a low-key amiability that keeps you rooting for Rod and company to triumph.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Full of sharp ideas and wry moments awaiting the inspired ingenuity of a screwball comedy to pull it all together. It never comes.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy, and the fine British cast of supporting actors makes every bon mot a tasty verbal morsel.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Ozon's greatest special effect is holding the camera in tight on the faces of Bruni-Tedeschi (one of the most expressive faces in French cinema) and Freiss.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- Sean Axmaker
Surely played better on the page than on the screen. What's left is the same old drill driven by brutal master race fervor.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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