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SEAN O'CONNELL

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Biography: In one of those "your peanut butter is in my chocolate" moments of enlightenment, Sean O'Connell realized almost 10 years ago that he could combine his love of movies with his tolerance for writing, and maybe even make a living of it. He's still trying, and the good people at USA Today, MSN, Citysearch, The Charlotte Weekly, NBC, CBS and others have helped. Sean was weaned on Elm Street flicks, schooled on Hitchcock, spoiled by Donner and betrayed by the Coreys. And through it all, the original Die Hard remains his favorite film. Born and raised in New York, Sean calls Charlotte, North Carolina home and is a 2003 inductee into both the Online Film Critics Society and the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

Favorites: Die Hard North By Northwest Singing in the Rain Back To The Future (trilogy) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/The Sting Jaws/E.T./Jurassic Park Ferris Bueller's Day Off (hell, the entire Hughes cannon) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Some Like It Hot Dancer in the Dark The Apartment/Sunset Blvd. Toy Story (I & II) The Philadelphia Story Garden State Fight Club/The People Vs. Larry Flynt/Rounders (the Norton trilogy) Shadow of a Doubt Swingers Anything by Lars von Trier

Publications: Charlotte Weekly, Citysearch, Eclipse Magazine, Filmcritic.com, Flipside Movie Emporium, MovieWeb, Reel.com

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 871

Location: Charlotte, NC, where Gwyneth Paltrow weighs 350 lbs.

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Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 11%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" This is what happens when the guy who directed two "Home Alone" movies collaborates with the screenwriter of "Looney Tunes: Back in Action."" — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 88%	Moon (2009)	" Comparisons to "2001" or even Ridley Scott's "Alien" aren't far-fetched." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 97%	Food, Inc. (2009)	" It's an "Inconvenient Truth" for food, minus the droning Al Gore and a handful of PowerPoint slides." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 8, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	Management (2009)	" Goes for broke on sentiment but overlooks important details that make decent films great." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 8, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" Preachy, nihilistic, derogatory and unfocused." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 45%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" The third time's less of a charm and more of a thin attempt to cash in on the success of the previous installments." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 1, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 65%	Public Enemies (2009)	" More enamored with the Dillinger myth than with the actual man." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jul 1, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" The first film I've seen this year that made me feel something." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 26, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" an overly sentimental movie-of-the-week, masquerading as counterprogramming to Michael Bay's box-office-blasting robots." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" The quintessential Michael Bay movie, though in this instance I mean that as high compliment." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 24, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" At its best, "Year One" is offensive. ... At its worst, however, it's downright repulsive." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 67%	Easy Virtue (1927)	" The main reason to stop on PBS when the network airs "Easy Virtue" a few months from now is to witness Biel's complete departure." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" It's the undeniable chemistry %u2013 both romantic and comedic %u2013 shared between Reynolds and Bullock that ultimately carries "The Proposal" over its mediocre, formulaic writing and predictable plotting." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" Warmly lit and beautifully acted, but cynical enough %u2013 and chock-full of enough dark humor %u2013 to avoid what might have been unbearably schmaltzy." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" Bahrani's his experimental (and, some might argue, pretentious) dramas can wander off course in search of honest emotion, often to the detriment of his story." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 58%	Paris 36 (2008)	" A frothy concoction that thrives on the improvisational creativity found on a stage." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	N/A	Sugar (2008)	" Pays such attention to detail ... that it's easy to forget you're watching a work of fiction and not a documentary about a real-life star on the rise." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" A one-sided account of Mike Tyson's compelling rise and fall, told by the man who lived the tale." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 62%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" Follows an offbeat path to reach that destination, and most will enjoy the journey." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" Proves Raimi still knows how to crawl under an audience's skin." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Stout performances and Helgeland's screenplay keep "Pelham" grounded." — Charlotte Weekly Posted Jun 15, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 12%	My Life in Ruins (2009)	" Nia Vardalos is the new Yakov Smirnoff" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 4, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" as much of a nonsensical head-scratcher as the source show." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 4, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" good, not great, Pixar" — Filmcritic.com Posted May 28, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" applies big-budget defibrillator paddles to the hulking franchise but can't breathe fresh life into the now 25-year-old concept." — Filmcritic.com Posted May 20, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" never comes close to duplicating the urgent pacing of Brown's crackling source material" — Filmcritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" With one film, J.J. Abrams has made Star Trek younger, flashier, sexier, funnier, and less intelligent, but more exhilarating than it has been in decades" — Filmcritic.com Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	Next Day Air (2009)	" a rare type of disaster... putrid" — Filmcritic.com Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" McConaughey is mildly coasting. He has danced these steps before." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	Battle for Terra (2009)	" In this day and age, you simply cannot produce unsophisticated animation like the kind on display in the campy Battle for Terra and hope to compete." — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 85%	Earth (2009)	" entertains as much as it educates" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" There's no real structure to Jordan's film, so stories haphazardly begin and disappear without ending" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 23, 2009
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 29%	The Golden Boys (2009)	" peddles safe humor that's mashed up and spoon-fed to an audience craving toothless comedy" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" now, at least, I understand the hoopla surrounding this spunky, cool, and charismatic young performer" — Filmcritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 64%	Watchmen (2009)	" comes about as close to Moore's intent as we're likely to see in adapting the sprawling Watchmen into manageable, feature-length form" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 5, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" traces its bloodline back to the paranoia peddlers of the 1970s" — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 12, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	The Shark Is Still Working (2006)	" leaves no fin unturned" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 30, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 13%	Bride Wars (2009)	" finds sharp laughs in the nooks and crannies of the formula" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jan 8, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 56%	Defiance (2008)	" an interesting story, sporadically told in an interesting way." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 31, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Fresh 69%	Revolutionary Road (2008)	" reminds us how, in 120 minutes, a picture can go from "I can not wait to see that" to "I never want to see that again."" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 60%	Valkyrie (2008)	" a riveting military drama, a popcorn thriller masquerading as a political potboile" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" Brilliant... beautiful and incredibly moving." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Rotten 43%	Yes Man (2008)	" the flimsiest comedic premise of Carrey's career" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 18, 2008
Rotten 1.5/5	Fresh 79%	Gran Torino (2008)	" Do you miss Archie Bunker? Then Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is the movie for you... Graceless and insensitive." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2008
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 78%	Doubt (2008)	" powerful" — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 11, 2008
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" alternately painful, perplexing, awkward, melodramatic, and slow to overwhelm." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 9, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" If there's a single misstep in Ron Howard's expertly calibrated Frost/Nixon, it eluded me." — Filmcritic.com Posted Dec 4, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 94%	Milk (2008)	" Van Sant's tender human-interest story, which showcases Sean Penn's considerable talents, is a closer relative to earlier efforts such as Finding Forrester or Good Will Hunting than to recent, abstruse features like Elephant and Gerry" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 25, 2008
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 54%	Australia (2008)	" There's enough material in Australia to warrant a mini-series, which is how the feature film plays out. In one sitting, it's a tough sit." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 25, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 24%	Four Christmases (2008)	" Before a single joke is told, Seth Gordon's Four Christmases earns a positive grade for its inspired casting." — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 25, 2008

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