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SEAN AXMAKER
PUBLICATION(S)
• GreenCine
• MSN.com
• Parallax View
• Seanax.com
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Seattle Weekly
• St@tic Multimedia
• Turner Classic Movies Online

BIOGRAPHY
I am a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a DVD columnist for the MSN (http://movies.msn.com/new-on-dvd/), and a frequent contributor to MSN Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies Online, Greencine.com, and Asian Cult Cinema.
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Total Reviews: 1490
Total QuickRatings: 2

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Online Film Critics Society

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" ... Welles was handed a pulp thriller and turned a straight commercial assignment into a baroque murder mystery directed with stylistic bravura." -- Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Touch of Evil (1958)94%
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" ... arguably the greatest TV Western ever made." -- MSN.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Lonesome Dove (1990)100%
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" Fred Olen Ray designed the film for cult consumption and cast Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface in the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) with that in mind." -- MSN.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1987)n/a
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" It's weird, creepy, imaginative, and unlike anything else out there." -- MSN.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)91%
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" A top French cast and the grandiose backdrop of the Louvre set off this silly ghost story like a gilt frame over a paint-by-numbers landscape." -- MSN.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)n/a
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" The framing sequence is a bit glib but the camp scenes are vividly realized..." -- MSN.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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" An Indian cast, a German director, and a mix of European and Indian financing came together to create this delicious 1929 silent romantic adventure..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
A Throw of Dice (1929)100%
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" ... shows great sensitivity toward the difficult ages of adolescence and creates a subdued, elegiac portrait of both the pleasures and the pains of growing up." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Wild Reeds (1995)100%
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" ... arguably the best cinematic jazz biography ever made." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Bird (1988)71%
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" ... an eerie, ethereal fever dream of a [horror film]..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Vampyr (1931)100%
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" ... [Famke] Janssen is convincingly weather-beaten and frayed as the tough cookie who has been bounced around by life..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Turn the River (2008)67%
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" ... the marriage of environmentalist and animist themes makes for a resonant (and very timely) horror film." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Last Winter (2007)79%
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" ... a gorgeous film and a devastating drama..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Outlaw and His Wife (1917)n/a
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" ... Powell directs with a snappy energy and an eye for imagery that makes these low-budget films look far more lavish than they are." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Classic British Thrillers - Phantom Light/Red Ensign/Upturned Glass ()n/a
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" ... Powell directs with a snappy energy and an eye for imagery..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Phantom Light (1934)n/a
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" [Director Peter] Watkins doesn't bother with subtlety [and] he finds a strange, almost Christ-like figure in the passive [Paul] Jones..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Privilege (1967)n/a
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" The mix of Italian genre violence, antihero cynicism and exploitation twists (they just happen upon a gaggle of skinny-dipping babes toting machine guns?) gives it a punchy energy..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Inglorious Bastards (1977)n/a
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" ... the sometimes awkward, sometimes easy interactions of former national enemies who don't speak the same language but manage to find common ground nonetheless." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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" ... the story is ultimately about friendship, ambition and betrayal in the compromising business of politics." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
The Deal (2003)n/a
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" ... pure farce, a crazy comic adventure that sends the stoner buddies on a getaway road movie through a raunchy obstacle course..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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" ... piles on the clichés and plot complications without adding anything interesting (let alone distinctive or memorable)." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 31, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)48%
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" ... a pleasantly playful film with marvelous sight gags and brief moments of comic poetry." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
Trafic (1971)100%
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" ... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)78%
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" ... it's not the most original setup, but then it's not the most original anthology horror..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
Trapped Ashes (2006)40%
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" Franz Osten... is a dynamic director with an eye for spectacular imagery and romantic visions, and a gift for visual storytelling and energetic pacing." -- MSN.com
Posted Jul 14, 2008
 
A Throw of Dice (1929)n/a
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" ... a juvenile-delinquent drama of disaffected youth in 1957 East Berlin... offers yet another vibrant, unexpected peek into the troubled social world of the socialist paradise." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (1957)n/a
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" ... a genre hybrid: a psychological Western by way of a gothic melodrama, with a dark, shadowy style right out of [Anthony] Mann's earlier film noirs." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
The Furies (1950)n/a
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" ... a dull, dumb compendium of recycled adventure epic clichés." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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" For Michel Gondry, [the film] becomes a kind of folk art spin on Hollywood gloss and a tribute to his own preferred style of filmmaking..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Be Kind Rewind (2008)68%
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" Director Barry Sonnenfeld brings a sense of whimsy to the comic script, balancing farce with big-budget action and somehow making it all work." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Men In Black (1997)91%
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" ... at heart it's a lean, dusty Western classic set to the real time of a ticking clock." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
High Noon (1952)95%
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" Claude Sautet made his directorial debut with this tough, lean, smart piece of French crime cinema made on the cusp of the new wave." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Classe Tous Risques (1960)100%
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" [Hayden] Christensen has all the emotional range of moss, and [Samuel L.] Jackson simply recycles old roles with his scenery-chewing performance." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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" [Don] Siegel is lean, terse director who is happy leave "Dirty" Harry the vivid kind of moral conundrum that makes movies interesting..." -- Seanax.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Dirty Harry (1971)97%
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" It's breathtakingly gorgeous and almost comically clichéd, which [Francois] Girard's humorless direction only exacerbates, but the Oscar-winning score by John Corigliano is wonderfully alive." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Red Violin (1998)71%
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" [Gary] Cooper brings a wounded, weary dignity to his role as a man haunted by a past that has returned with a vengeance..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Man of the West (1958)100%
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" The black-and-white photography captures the working-class milieu and the late-'70s Manchester music scene with an easy intimacy..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Control (2007)87%
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" This tired spoof of 300 is ostensibly a movie parody but almost all the references are ripped from TV reality shows, television commercials and celebrity scandals." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Meet the Spartans (2008)2%
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" Will Ferrell appears to be simply running out the clock in this spoof of the short-lived American Basketball Association." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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" ... an amazing world for the fantastical wonders of flying carpets, mechanical horses and a 50-foot genie with a bellowing laugh." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)100%
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" [Woody] Harrelson is marvelous as the cultured Carter, playing a vain man without a trace of actorly vanity, but the murder mystery and conspiratorial complications are clumsy..." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
The Walker (2007)52%
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" Allen reworks themes explored more satisfyingly in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and his writing seems lazy... yet he can still spin a compelling web from it." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)47%
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" Allen reworks themes explored more satisfyingly in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and his writing seems lazy... yet he can still spin a compelling web from it." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)47%
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" Blood spurts, limbs fly, and bodies are machine-gunned to pieces and blown into mulch, lots of it aided by gory CGI flourishes, in his brand of gunboat diplomacy." -- MSN.com
Posted Jun 16, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)37%
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Click here to read article -- MSN.com
Posted May 27, 2008
 
Forgotten Noir - Vol. 7 (1950-1954)n/a
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" Apart from the shadowy climax, it's not really a noir and lacks personality, but it's a brisk enough crime drama." -- MSN.com
Posted May 27, 2008
 
David Harding, Counterspy (1950)n/a
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" The effect is not always compelling or dramatic, but listening to the parents and siblings talk their way through anger and loss brings it all down to somber human terms." -- MSN.com
Posted May 23, 2008
 
Beyond Hatred (2005)89%
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" It all feels pretty tired this time around." -- MSN.com
Posted May 23, 2008
 
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)31%
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" Mann's direction is strong, and the lavish sets and costumes and massive crowd scenes are truly magnificent..." -- MSN.com
Posted May 14, 2008
 
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)100%
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" ... for all the bizarre elements (such as a veteran voyeur who calls himself Captain Banana), it doesn't go anywhere." -- MSN.com
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Party 7 (2000)n/a

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