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SEAN AXMAKER

"When I�m not watching movies: I�m usually writing or asleep."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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. I have written for Amazing Stories and Psychotronic Video, have written hundreds of video reviews for Amazon.com, and I have over 1,000 reviews and essays in the Scarecrow Movie Guide. I live alone with my 2 cats, I love movies by Howard Hawks and Orson Welles, will watch anything with Burt Lancaster or Humphrey Bogart in it, and hope I never have to grow up and get a real job.

Favorites: And now the important stuff: My favorite director: Howard Hawks My director obsession: Orson Welles My favorite films: choose from The Searchers (John Ford, 1956), Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949), French Can-Can (Jean Renoir, 1955), Touch of Evil (Orson Wells, 1958), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976), Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and any number of Howard Hawks films � Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Red River (1948), The Thing From Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and the vastly under-appreciated Hatari! (1962) Favorite performer: Burt Lancaster and his million dollar smile.

Publications: GreenCine, MSN.com, Parallax View, Reel Film Reviews, Seanax.com, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, St@tic Multimedia, Turner Classic Movies Online

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 1598
Total QuickRatings: 2

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Fresh	N/A	The Sky Crawlers (2008)	" ... a surreal, hypnotic quality broken only by the dynamic scenes of battle..." — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Playing Shakespeare (1984)	" Part master class presentation, part workshop, part Socratic dialogue, it plays out in the manner of an actor's workshop..." — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Do the Right Thing (1989)	" [Spike] Lee doesn't attempt to answer the complicated questions of racism, misunderstanding and simmering anger as much as confront them with a hard clarity." — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Eastbound & Down ()	" ... a cable series created with the same collaborative spirit and improvisational approach of Will Ferrell's movies, and it's funnier and sharper than Ferrell's last couple of pictures" — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 29%	Lookin' to Get Out (1982)	" The plot is a completely unconvincing series of coincidences but the dynamism of the characters and their friendships is marvelous." — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Moon (2009)	" Essentially a one-man, two character piece, "Moon" could be an old "Twilight Zone" episode nurtured into a feature." — Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Steel Helmet (1951)	" The first American film about the Korean War [and] one of the greatest war films ever made." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Public Enemies (2009)	" An honest to goodness grown-up epic in the season of adolescent fantasies and overpriced empty action spectacles..." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Last Year at Marienbad (1961)	" ... a tantalizing mystery and a work of cinema as intricately faceted as a jewel." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" ... the bigger, longer, more expensive and completely unnecessary sequel to the amusing 2007 blockbuster about giant alien robots..." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 23, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Shield - Complete Seventh Season: The Final Act (2009)	" ... ended its seven-season run in 2008 with a brilliant final season and one of the greatest series finales ever broadcast." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Red Beard (1965)	" The final collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune is one of Kurosawa's most ambitious, personal, and heartfelt films." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Mean Streets (1973)	" Passionate, energetic, stylistically inventive and personally driven, it is the first mature, full blooded "Martin Scorsese Film."" — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	The Seventh Seal (1957)	" I never realized what an astoundingly beautiful film it was." — Parallax View Posted Jun 18, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Tetro (2009)	" Even the most deftly executed scenes are smothered in the Oedipal weight of past betrayals while they struggle to support the operatic melodrama that unfolds." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" When did comedy writing become such a lost art, replaced by the improvisational byplay of talented but increasingly familiar players left to think up funny lines for an amusing situation?" — Seanax.com Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" ... a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high-concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" ... an aimless romp lost in the land of juvenile humor and missed opportunities." — Seanax.com Posted Jun 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" The most tender, touching and deftly told love story of the year is in the opening few minutes of Up..." — Seanax.com Posted May 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" ... little more than big machine spectacle with a little lip service paid to humanity, identity and free will, which are not exactly themes so much as plot points." — Seanax.com Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Changing Lanes (2002)	" A rare Hollywood film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	" [John] Ford has never made a darker portrait of the lies and the lives that built the west..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)	" ... [Robert] Mitchum is at his best as a tired professional still hustling because it's all he knows." — Seanax.com Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Stereo (1969)	" ... essential to Cronenberg fans, (a) dispassionate portraitsof fictional experiments in the mutation of mankind in the near future." — Parallax View Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Crimes of the Future (1970)	" ... essential to Cronenberg fans, (a) dispassionate portraitsof fictional experiments in the mutation of mankind in the near future." — Parallax View Posted May 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)	" It's a minor but fun piece of seventies genre cinema filled with loud suits, melodramatic complications and a camera that zooms in to hardened faces..." — Parallax View Posted May 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" ... a safe little piece of conspiracy thriller hokum under a fa�ade of church politics and Papal secrets." — Seanax.com Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Of Time and the City (2009)	" ... a wistful, funny, satirical, angry and forgiving portrait." — Parallax View Posted May 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Rich and Strange (1931)	" ... a mature exploration of personal disappointment and longing for a fantasy that doesn't exist and an adult confrontation of wandering affections and romantic betrayal..." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Ballad of a Soldier (1959)	" ... a simple, poetic tale where the sentimental streak and patriotic idealism common to the Soviet formula is humanized with vivid characters and tender direction." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted May 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" It aspires to be everything to everyone and it's as good as can be expected given those directives, but its prime directive is simple: have fun. It does and I did." — Seanax.com Posted May 7, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" ... a magnificent production." — Parallax View DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 84%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	" ... tender, tough and uncompromising, photographed with a disarming directness and seeming simplicity..." — Parallax View DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Enchanted April (1992)	" ... behind that precious romanticism is a genuine commitment to this emotional renewal." — Parallax View Posted May 5, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Deadly Sweet (1967)	" ... a film of marvelous energy and delirious imagery." — Parallax View Posted May 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Look (2007)	" Rifkin has a cynical view of human behavior and he plays it for cheap titillation and bleak humor, which is mean-spirited at best and glib at worst." — Seanax.com Posted May 3, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Frost Nixon: The Complete Interviews (1977)	" It was a cultural landmark and remains a relevant and vital piece of history." — Seanax.com Posted Apr 27, 2009
Rotten	N/A	The She Beast (1966)	" It tips right into bad Keystone Kops komedy..." — Parallax View Posted Apr 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 40%	Dante 01 (2008)	" Dante 01 isn't science fiction, it's just allegory with technology. The symbols are all on the surface..." — Seanax.com Posted Apr 18, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Intelligence - Season 2 (2007)	" ... better, smarter, more sophisticated than its American counterparts, more clever in its tangle of narratives and less showy in a visual style." — Seanax.com Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Yankee Clipper (1927)	" ... equal parts Victorian chivalry, manifest destiny and nationalist machismo, less swashbuckler than melodrama with plenty of romantic complications." — Parallax View Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Easy Rider (1969)	" The little road movie of hippie bikers was an odyssey for the era of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll..." — Seanax.com Posted Apr 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	The Big Red One (1980)	" *... if you want a World War II story from a real vet's perspective, Sam Fuller is still the man and The Big Red One, drawn from his own war experiences, is the film" — Seanax.com* Posted Apr 12, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Reign of Terror (1949)	" ... the strangest of genre mixes, a costume crime thriller with a continental setting and an American pulp sensibility." — Seanax.com Posted Apr 10, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Superman (1941)	" ... Superman never looked more beautiful in flight or heroic in action than in these cartoon classics." — Parallax View Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 89%	Cleopatra (1934)	" ... DeMille's lavish but stilted film... is all production value and no style." — Parallax View Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Murder at the Vanities (1934)	" ... fast-moving, fast-talking, sexy little entertainment..." — Parallax View Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Murder at the Vanities (1934)	" ... fast-moving, fast-talking, sexy little entertainment..." — Parallax View Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Thunderball (1965)	" Thunderball, the biggest, most lavish, and longest Bond film at that time, was the most popular of its day." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Apr 4, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	FAUST (1926)	" Faust is a tragedy drawn in magnificent images like paintings in light and shadow and is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful of Murnau's German films." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Apr 4, 2009

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