ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sean Axmaker

BEST REVIEWED FILMS

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A	" 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." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 21, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
A	" ... the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to [director Jonathan] Demme, it's honest and generous and very human." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 9, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
A	" Akin doesn't hide the fatal destinies of major characters... but it's the lives of the survivors and how they choose to carry on that carry these crisscrossing stories." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 14, 2008	The Edge of Heaven (2008)	90%
A	" It's the new gold standard for superhero noir." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	94%
A+	" ... a grueling and deeply affecting human drama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Feb 7, 2008	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)	97%
A	" While not visually explicit, "Persepolis" is an uncompromising look at the culture of Iran as seen by an observant and open-minded child..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 24, 2008	Persepolis (2007)	96%
A	" ... strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 15, 2007	No Country for Old Men (2007)	94%
A	" Like the best of the new wave of American documentaries, it becomes about far more than the human-interest angle at the center of the story..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 18, 2007	My Kid Could Paint That (2007)	94%
A	" *Painted onscreen in a hypnotic mix of hypercharged naturalism and magic realism, Golden Door* is not about the destination but the journey.*" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted Jun 21, 2007	Golden Door (2007)	70%
A	" It's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Ken Loach, who wears his social-justice heart on his sleeve..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 19, 2007	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)	88%
A	" Hong [Sang-soo] moves slowly but deftly through scenes rich with social games and veiled confessions and allows his characters to emerge sadder but wiser." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 1, 2008	Woman on the Beach (2006)	88%
A	" 51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 11, 2007	51 Birch Street (2006)	95%
A	" *Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth* is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats...*" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted Jan 11, 2007	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	96%
A	" The shaggy honesty is bracing and the modest stories of young adults too tentative and nervous to do more than talk around an issue have a perceptive authenticity that doesn't shake off easily." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 7, 2006	Mutual Appreciation (2006)	88%
A	" ... a beauty and a richly textured palette rarely seen in such video documentaries." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 9, 2006	Iraq in Fragments (2006)	91%
A	" It's a film stripped to bloody basics, a ferocious and taut exercise in action horror that recalls early James Cameron, with more gore and less sentimentality." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 3, 2006	The Descent (2006)	85%
A	" But behind the utopian fairy tale is the genial authoritarianism... Ambivalence has rarely been made so lyrical and lovely." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 20, 2006	Iron Island (2006)	97%
A	" The style is pure Hou: richly textured atmosphere, tiptoeing camerawork and long, languorous takes of scenes full of privileged moments of human activity." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 13, 2006	Three Times (2006)	86%
A	" Cristi Puiu doesn't pull his punches in his barbed black comedy on the state of socialized medicine in Hungary." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 4, 2006	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
A	" ... the dynamics shift from moment to moment. The beauty of the film is how director Kelly Reichardt brilliantly captures those moments with lucid simplicity." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 4, 2006	Old Joy (2006)	85%
A	" Lajos Koltai's.. textured re-creation of enduring the unimaginable with quiet delicacy is the most hauntingly beautiful film about the Holocaust ever made." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 13, 2006	Fateless (2006)	92%
A	" ... a sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 27, 2006	Thank You For Smoking (2006)	86%
A	" ... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 6, 2006	The Intruder (2005)	84%
A	" ... the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Feb 2, 2006	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)	84%
A	" Kurosawa... fills the film with an eerie emptiness, where suicides erupt out of nowhere and mankind dissolves in an oily smudge of hopelessness..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 4, 2005	Pulse (2005)	73%
A	" Rodrigo Garcia may be the closest thing we have to a master short-story artist working on the big screen." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 27, 2005	Nine Lives (2005)	76%
A	" His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 25, 2005	Kings and Queen (2005)	87%
A	" ... rich, lush -- simply exquisite" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 25, 2005	2046 (2005)	84%
A	" Herzog the dreamer genuinely respects Treadwell... but it's Treadwell's contradictions and controversies that fascinate Herzog the filmmaker..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 11, 2005	Grizzly Man (2005)	93%
A	" These aren't puzzle pieces that fit snuggly together but fragments of character in revealing moments when weakness or pettiness overcome calm and affection." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 21, 2005	5X2 (2005)	64%
A	" Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted May 12, 2005	The Best of Youth (2005)	95%
A	" ... a bittersweet look at the joy and frustration and inspirational possibilities of art in a world fixated on appearances and measured by the marketplace." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 14, 2005	Look at Me (2005)	88%
A	" Beautiful, elevating and achingly sad." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 10, 2005	Nobody Knows (2005)	94%
A	" The imagery is joyous, delightfully imaginative, serene and beautiful, and ultimately enchanting." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 26, 2007	The Taste of Tea (2004)	100%
A	" ... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingering scenes that cast a spell over the almost abstract story." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Apr 13, 2006	Innocence (2004)	65%
A	" Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 12, 2006	The Weeping Meadow (2004)	65%
A	" As empowering and triumphant a film as you'll see this or any year." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Feb 17, 2005	Moolaade (2004)	99%
A	" Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 1, 2004	Before Sunset (2004)	94%
A	" ... the wonderfully weird trip leaves you with meaty questions, both metaphysical and moral, and a journey... even more philosophically invigorating and emotionally intense." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 2, 2004	Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004)	90%
A	" Deft and delightful." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 26, 2003	Peter Pan (2003)	76%
A	" ... a brilliant, stunning piece of work, perhaps not Assayas' best, but certainly his most fearless and impassioned." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 2, 2003	Demonlover (2003)	48%
A	" Sofia Coppola's sophomore film is another exploration of delicate relationships and uncommunicated frustrations, this one in a beautifully composed atmosphere of isolation." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Sep 12, 2003	Lost in Translation (2003)	95%
A	" Friday Night is the most sensuous and intimate work of cinema of the past few years, a film that luxuriates in the immediacy of the moment." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 7, 2003	Friday Night (2003)	81%
A	" ... an engaging and engaged comic drama, [Alan Rudolph's] best and most beautifully human film in years." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 7, 2003	The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)	85%
A	" The Dardennes' masterful casting and austere style amplify this simple but powerful parable." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 24, 2003	The Son (2003)	88%
A	" This is no portrait of outrage, but of ambiguity and uncertainty." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 19, 2003	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)	97%
A	" The sheer focus and intensity create an unforgettable experience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Mar 13, 2003	Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003)	85%
A	" ... mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 12, 2002	Quitting (2002)	77%
A	" Claude Miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 29, 2002	Alias Betty (2002)	92%
A	" ... a mosaic that adds a shot of offbeat comedy to the lyrical grace of Iran's serene cinema." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Aug 15, 2002	Secret Ballot (2002)	82%

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