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Sean Means

Sean Means

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Film.com , Salt Lake Tribune
Total Reviews:
2109
Total QuickRatings:
4

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3/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " Writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton wrings some effective drama from the group home's day-to-day routine. But it's Larson who shines as the caring but emotionally bruised Grace." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
4/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Probably the most horrifying and, at the same time, compelling movie you're likely to see this year. It's difficult to endure, yet impossible not to watch." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/4 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell generate some cool scares and clever comic relief from Elise's junior colleagues, but a viewing of the first movie would benefit newbies." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " Rookie director Stuart Blumberg overloads on movie references as he walks these characters predictably through their relationship problems, and you can set your watch to the inevitable relapse." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/4 80% Prisoners (2013) " Villeneuve sets a dark, foreboding tone, aided by evocative cinematography by the great Roger A. Deakins, which holds the movie together even when the plot goes a bit loopy in the finale. " — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/4 74% Concussion (2013) " The slick look (by production designer Lisa Myers and art director Kevin P. O'Donnell) highlights the split between Abby's suburban oppression and her urban freedom." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4/4 91% In a World... (2013) " Bell's script deftly dovetails Carol's professional angst with her daddy-daughter dilemma and her clumsy attempts at romance. Her dialogue is bouncy and funny, yet grounded in the characters' neurotic normalness." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 18% The Ultimate Life (2013) " The inspirational drama "The Ultimate Life" wears its heart on its sleeve so earnestly that it's easy to forgive the movie's heavy moralizing." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
3/4 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " Writer-director David Gordon Green... lets the fractured friendship between Alvin and Lance make its own circuitous path, finding little gems along the way." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
1/4 34% Hell Baby (2013) " The jaw drops at the drought of laughs in the horror spoof "Hell Baby," especially considering the massive amount of comic talent in front of and behind the cameras." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " Only the brightest colors of the Crayola box are used, whether to sketch out the characters' motivations or illuminate the cartoony visual effects." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2/4 27% Planes (2013) " At the end of "Planes," you may wonder why it wasn't released straight to DVD, which is how I'd bet the promised sequel "Planes: Fire & Rescue" will be seen." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " Then there's the idea of the primped and plastic Aniston playing a stripper, perhaps the least realistic portrayal of a sex worker since Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman."" — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " Fans will eat this stuff up with a spoon, while any stray nonfans will likely spend the movie gauging the bubblegum tunes and matching faces to names. (By the end, I could finally tell bandmates Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson apart.)" — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 60% Riddick (2013) " So disconnected from its previous installments - the 2000 survival thriller "Pitch Black" and the 2004 fantasy "The Chronicles of Riddick" - that maybe they should have started from scratch." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 10, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Together, Teller and Woodley have a chemistry that Hollywood would bottle if it could." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3.5/4 31% Austenland (2013) " Hess, making her directing debut and co-writing with Utah author Shannon Hale to adapt Hale's comic novel, manages to hit a sweet spot between Miss Austen's wry observations and "Napoleon Dynamite's" blissful wackiness." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
4/4 98% Blackfish (2013) " It's a riveting tale that will make you rethink where humans and orcas fall in the natural food chain and the corporate one." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Allen includes some nicely offbeat casting choices ... but mostly he gives the floor to Blanchett, who captures Jasmine's Xanax-popping neuroses with flinty brilliance." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3/4 75% You're Next (2013) " [The filmmakers] parcel out the gross-out moments carefully at first, building up the bump-in-the-night surprises without drenching the whole enterprise in fake blood. " — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
1.5/4 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " In the end, this 'City of Bones' is all gnawed-over scraps from other, better movies." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3.5/4 89% The World's End (2013) " Pegg is at his manic best here, presenting Gary's arrested adolescence as a badge of honor, while also hiding a sad secret that explains his fierce determination to finish the pub crawl even as the robots turn lethal." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3/4 95% The Hunt (2013) " Mikkelsen (now freaking out Americans as the title character of NBC's "Hannibal") gives the persecuted Lucas a gravity and an intensity that make for compelling viewing." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3.5/4 97% A Hijacking (2013) " As immediate and as hard-hitting as a punch in the gut, sucking you into a tension-filled situation in the corporate offices and on the high seas." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
1.5/4 4% Paranoia (2013) " Only twice, when Ford and Oldman snarl at each other from leather sofas, does "Paranoia" show signs of life." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Even more than its predecessor, [the movie] can't bridge the inconsistencies between its depiction of cartoonish ultra-violence and its characters talking about the deadly consequences of such violence." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " The historical moments are staged not only to underline their importance, but to clarify the movie's self-importance in restaging or referring to them." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " Blomkamp deftly balances the action requirements with the issues and fills in the background with enough detail to make this multicultural dystopian split between the haves and have-nots feel logical and familiar." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 9, 2013
1.5/4 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " Bridges essentially recycles his Rooster Cogburn mannerisms here - but in a movie whose action sequences steal from "The Matrix" and "Ghostbusters," who's going to notice?" — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2/4 42% Red 2 (2013) " "Red 2" is really a series of running gags strung together by filmmakers desperately hoping nobody notices there's not really a plot." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/4 65% Turbo (2013) " Yes, it's inevitable that somebody utters the words "there's nothing in the rules that says a snail can't enter the race," because if someone didn't say it, we wouldn't have a movie." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3.5/4 86% The Conjuring (2013) " What director James Wan does in "The Conjuring" is employ old-fashioned shocks - things that bump in the night, insinuations of nefarious spirits, even a furniture-banging exorcism - in creative and ultimately terrifying ways." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/4 56% The Look of Love (2013) " Coogan is adept at playing the cad, but Winterbottom gives him little else to do." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2/4 64% Unfinished Song (2013) " Redgrave, like her character, is a dynamic presence when she's there and sorely missed when she's gone." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Coogler's take quietly serves to show Grant as a human being, with his flaws and redeeming qualities, and not just as a face in a newspaper obituary." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2/4 59% Pandora's Promise (2013) " The film's blatantly one-sided presentation undercuts the pro-nuclear argument more than any counterargument." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2013
3.5/4 84% Fill the Void (2013) " Buhrstein, whose assuredness belies the fact that this is her first film, captures this dilemma mainly through Shira's eyes. " — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2013
3/4 61% Byzantium (2013) " Jordan, true to form, moves fluidly between past and present toward an archly frenetic finale." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2013
0/4 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " Sandler and his writing partners jump from one crude gag to the next without a trace of a plot or narrative sense. This would be OK if any of the jokes were remotely funny, but they're mostly retreads of the bad jokes from the first movie." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2013
3.5/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " Yes, as a critic, I can find things to pick apart about "Pacific Rim," but ultimately I was won over by the visceral thrills and the giddy delights of Del Toro's sleek homage to the monster movies of his youth." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 13, 2013
2.5/4 75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " Gru without evil doesn't have much of a personality at all." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " There's an "everything and the kitchen sink" overkill in the story. ... Verbinski manages to keep it all reined in, barely." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3.5/4 75% The East (2013) " Marling, as she did in "Another Earth" and "Arbitrage," makes smart sexy (and vice versa) as she works through Jane's moral dilemma. " — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2013
4/4 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " Whedon adapts William Shakespeare's feather-light comedy into a bubbly cocktail party of a movie - and gives his stable of regular actors some of the Bard's meatiest dialogue on which to chew." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2013
3/4 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Sofia Coppola creates a surprisingly deep look at some very shallow people." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2013
3/4 67% World War Z (2013) " Director Marc Forster brings a kinetic energy to some of the zombie set pieces, but the episodic structure of the tag-teamed script makes for a stop-and-start pace." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2013
3/4 78% Monsters University (2013) " What's lacking from "Monsters University" is an ending that matches the breakneck pacing or creative brilliance of "Monsters, Inc." " — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 22, 2013
3/4 95% We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) " Which is the real Assange? This movie cannot say. It's as if Gibney threw up his hands, put the whole mess in the audience's lap and said, "Here, YOU figure this guy out."" — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2013
4/4 98% Before Midnight (2013) " "Before Midnight" presents a paradox: It's the best entry in director Richard Linklater's romantic trilogy, but it's also the first in the series that doesn't leave me dying to know what happens next." — Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 14, 2013
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