ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sean Axmaker

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A	My Kid Could Paint That
A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A-	Ratatouille
B+	Transformers
B	Fido
B-	Broken English
C+	Evening
C	License To Wed
C-	Over Her Dead Body
D	The Bucket List

BEST REVIEWED
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A	A Christmas Tale
A	Rachel Getting Married
A	The Edge of Heaven
A	The Dark Knight
A	Woman on the Beach
A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Persepolis
A	No Country for Old Men
A	My Kid Could Paint That
A	Golden Door
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	What Love Is
F	Norbit
F	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
F	Mindhunters
F	National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
F	See Spot Run
D	Bride Wars
D	Never Back Down
D	The Bucket List
D	Hannibal Rising
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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B	" It's a simple tale with magical imagery and a worthy message, but it's also alive with offbeat humor and witty observations of childhood behavior and adult suspicion." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 8, 2009	Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2008)	85%
C	" Director Bill Duke can't avoid the stereotypes... or the sermonizing of the lesson." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 8, 2009	Not Easily Broken (2009)	32%
D	" All it takes is a bride scorned to turn a stock movie character into a raving caricature of emotional instability." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jan 8, 2009	Bride Wars (2009)	12%
	" (The filmmakers') creativity is both fantastic and organic, their imagery spellbinding and gorgeous, and their scripting clever and witty." -- Parallax View Posted Jan 5, 2009	Stairway to Heaven (1946)	100%
	" ... one of the great films of innocence lost and a powerful portrait of the powerlessness of children in the adult world, where they are so often ignored or discounted." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jan 1, 2009	The Fallen Idol (1948)	100%
	" For all the spectacle, it is more abstract than involving and the film never pumps with the blood of romantic passion that flows through so many Powell movies." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jan 1, 2009	Tales of Hoffmann (1951)	100%
	" Truth and guilt and responsibility are not just themes here, they are topics of debate and we keep returning to the seminar and the courtroom to hear those debates." -- Parallax View Posted Jan 1, 2009	The Reader (2008)	60%
	" These are performances - and lives - lived in quotation marks." -- Parallax View Posted Jan 1, 2009	Revolutionary Road (2008)	67%
	" Based on a scenario written by Fairbanks himself, it's a strange and surreal comedy..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 24, 2008	When the Clouds Roll By (1919)	n/a
	" [Fairbanks] lands in a cauldron of royal cloak-and-dagger intrigue and faces it like a two-fisted American increasingly exasperated by the assassination attempts." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 24, 2008	Reaching for the Moon (1917)	n/a
	" Fairbanks is as charming as can be with a smile as big as all outdoors and a can-do spirit..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 24, 2008	A Modern Musketeer (1918)	n/a
	" Less a story than a succession of comic set pieces defined by Fairbanks' athleticism and unbridled joie de vivre..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 24, 2008	His Picture in the Papers (1916)	n/a
B	" David Frankel directs with a modesty and restraint that favors the people over the situations, and he really captures the chemistry of a family dog in the mix." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 24, 2008	Marley & Me (2008)	59%
	" It's a film more designed than directed." -- Parallax View Posted Dec 24, 2008	The Spirit (2008)	15%
	" A lot of viewers get caught up in trying to figure out what really happened, when in fact the film is more of a Rorschach test." -- Parallax View Posted Dec 22, 2008	Doubt (2008)	76%
B-	" There's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 19, 2008	Timecrimes (2008)	82%
C	" As director, [Bruce Campbell] trips through gory gags and gallows humor with more tenacity than talent, while onscreen he mugs shamelessly." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 11, 2008	My Name is Bruce (2008)	38%
C+	" ... beneath the cultural color and Spanish exclamations, the dilemmas and conflicts that swirl around the family gatherings are just like the holidays in every such movie." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Dec 11, 2008	Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)	49%
	" ... one of the strongest and most entertaining anthology films to emerge from the 1960s." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 7, 2008	Six in Paris (1965)	82%
	" (T)here is no stylistic thrill to this blunt object of a callous action film." -- Seanax.com Posted Dec 4, 2008	Punisher: War Zone (2008)	23%
	" No show on TV better captured the subtleties or the dynamics of the high school caste system." -- Seanax.com Posted Nov 28, 2008	Freaks and Geeks - The Complete Series (1999-2000)	n/a
C+	" It creates quite the illusion of velocity but the confetti editing cheats the audience out of Hong Kong action maestro Corey Yuen's choreography and Statham's stiff, steely, strong-arm style of martial-arts fighting." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 26, 2008	Transporter 3 (2008)	36%
C-	" ... stumbles awkwardly through the slapstick parade of brotherly body slams and sneaky kids and babies spitting up all over the maternally tone-deaf Kate..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 25, 2008	Four Christmases (2008)	25%
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%
C+	" ... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 20, 2008	Days and Clouds (2008)	81%
B+	" ... a rousing documentary on the real costs of petrochemical dependence and the practical alternatives within reach." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 20, 2008	Fuel (2008)	n/a
	" ... pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality." -- Parallax View Posted Nov 20, 2008	A Christmas Tale (2008)	90%
	" ... an action film where the flamboyant heroics occur only in fantasy and Van Damme's most daring stunt is a self-pitying monologue dropped into the middle of the movie." -- Seanax.com Posted Nov 20, 2008	JCVD (2008)	87%
B+	" Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film is a young love horror piece full of chilly moods and twisted allegiances..." -- Seanax.com Posted Nov 13, 2008	Let the Right One In (2008)	97%
B+	" This is no historical portrait of ancient life but a dreamy reflection of 17th-century romanticism of the past..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 6, 2008	The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2008)	66%
C	" By the climax, which will tie your stomach in knots, Herman has turned Bruno into the innocent caught up in the nightmare and Jews into extras in his story." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 6, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
C-	" In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 6, 2008	Role Models (2008)	76%
B	" ... rapid-fire comedy and energetic parade of sight gags, delivered with visual invention and whiplash timing..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Nov 6, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	63%
	" Lean fills Great Expectations with a wealth of visual detail and vivid characters and personalities... and he directs with a warmth and humor..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Nov 1, 2008	Great Expectations (1946)	100%
	" Le Deuxieme Souffle is at heart a romantic fantasy of underworld loyalty and lives of calculated risk and violence anchored by brilliantly staged and shot set pieces..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Nov 1, 2008	Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)	100%
	" ... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 30, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
C	" ... a buffet of romantic comedy comfort food: the good old American standbys complemented by bland international dishes." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 30, 2008	The Other End of the Line (2008)	29%
B-	" ... filmdom's Everyman geek of a director is a goofy, gooey romantic at heart. Emphasis on the gooey." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Oct 30, 2008	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)	65%
	" *... Videodrome* is as contemporary and relevant as ever.*" -- Seanax.com* Posted Oct 30, 2008	Videodrome (1983)	80%
	" [Anna] Sten plays Nana as either a conniving golddigger or girlish romantic but offers little nuance in between..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Oct 28, 2008	Nana (1934)	n/a
	" The funniest film ever made about nuclear holocaust..." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	100%
	" ... a scrappy, vibrant musical portrait painted in the bold colors of rock itself: impassioned lyrics, power chords, crashing drums and smashing guitars." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	The Who - The Kids Are Alright (1979)	100%
	" ... a spurting blast of pulp and poetry choreographed into a ballet of violence." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	The Wild Bunch (1969)	97%
	" Hayao Miyazaki recasts the mythic tale of man's dominion over the earth with an animist mythology and a conservationist message..." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	Princess Mononoke (1997)	93%
	" ... as Inspector Harry Callahan, known to the squad as Dirty Harry, Eastwood turned his frontier persona into an urban cowboy on the mean streets of our urban world." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	Dirty Harry (1971)	97%
	" This Spade is no stranger to the guile of shady clients and colorful suspects..." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	The Maltese Falcon (1941)	100%
	" More than a movie classic, it's an essential part of the popular culture..." -- Seanax.com Posted Oct 26, 2008	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	100%
N/A	" *Jonathan Demme on Rachel Getting Married* - "As long as we are born into families, it's going to be a big deal"*" -- Parallax View* Posted Oct 23, 2008	Rachel Getting Married (2008)	87%
N/A	" Rick Schmidlin on Touch of Evil" -- Parallax View Posted Oct 23, 2008	Touch of Evil (1958)	94%
N/A	" Bob O'Neil on Touch of Evil" -- Parallax View Posted Oct 23, 2008	Touch of Evil (1958)	94%

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