Sean O'Connell

Sean O'Connell

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Biography:
A nationally recognized film critic, Sean's reviews have been published in print (The Washington Post, USA Today) and online (AMC FilmCritic.com, HollywoodNews.com, MSN's Citysearch) since 1996. He's a weekly contributor to several national radio programs. He is a longstanding member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), and the Southeastern Film Critics View all articles by Sean O'Connell Association (SEFCA).
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 , CinemaBlend.com , Citysearch , Eclipse Magazine , Film Racket , Filmcritic.com , Flipside Movie Emporium , Hollywood News , Movies.com , MovieWeb , Reel.com , Reelrave , Washington Post
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
1148
Location:
Charlotte, NC, where Gwyneth Paltrow weighs 350 lbs.

Worst Reviewed Films

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F 23% Torque (2004) " Don't-try-this-at-home stunts collide with a don't-read-this-anywhere script." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Jan 16, 2004
F 23% Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) " Rapidly settles into a predictable pattern of uninspired teen punishment." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Aug 28, 2003
F 43% The Rules of Attraction (2002) " So detestable you must watch it just to see how one filmmaker can fail on every level." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2002
D- 31% Around the World in 80 Days (2004) " (Owes) more to Verne 'Mini Me' Troyer than author Jules Verne." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2004
D- 6% Johnson Family Vacation (2004) " Plays out like the pilot episode for a sitcom that no network picked up." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2004
D- 26% Never Die Alone (2004) " Worse than you could ever imagine." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Mar 26, 2004
D- 77% L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) " Crams a whole season of Real World fights, flings, cover-ups and send-off parties into one bloated pastry of a film." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Jul 30, 2003
D- 60% Down with Love (2003) " Sinks to unspeakably vulgar depths with nary a clue to how far it's falling." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted May 12, 2003
0.5/4 20% The Rite (2011) " A run-of-the-mill chiller that spends an inordinate amount of time flirting with unconventional scare tactics before sacrificing all of its ingenuity to become the latest in a long line of "The Exorcist" clones." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 28, 2011
D 15% Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) " Well-intentioned, but terribly stereotypical, falling back on the insulting ghetto speak and flabby caricatures that used to populate In Living Color skits." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Feb 23, 2005
D 5% Christmas with the Kranks (2004) " Contains momentum-halting continuity errors and clownish antics from hammy performers that will have Santa scribbling furiously on next year's "Naughty" list." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2004
D 44% National Treasure (2004) " Hop-scotches up the Eastern seaboard with no real zeal, detouring at historic landmarks like a tour bus on steroids." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2004
D 86% Collateral (2004) " As realistic as an episode of HBO's Taxicab Confessions, without that stimulating voyeuristic quality modern audiences crave." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2004
D 61% Saved! (2004) " Takes cheap swings at easy targets and gift wraps a tidy message of forgiveness that's as empty as (its) put-on Christian attitude." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2004
D 4% The Whole Ten Yards (2003) " ...criminally deficient." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2004
D 1% Twisted (2004) " For a movie riddled with corpses, Twisted is pretty lifeless." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2004
D 11% Catch That Kid (2004) " (Audiences) quickly will grow tired of the film's childish antics." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2004
D 33% The Butterfly Effect (2004) " The insensitive execution results in a Twilight Zone twist as imagined by Charles Manson." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2004
D 12% Cold Creek Manor (2003) " A by-the-book stalker picture marred by sloppy plotting. It's only scary if a malicious redneck holding a grudge terrifies you." — Flipside Movie Emporium
Posted Sep 17, 2003
D 77% The Good Thief (2003) " (Nolte) was knocking at death's door but paused long enough ... for a police department mug shot. Who knew his next picture could be worse?" — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Apr 24, 2003
D 34% Bringing Down The House (2003) " Short on laughs that don't involve racist remarks, House decimates race relations and sets civil rights back to the Stone Age." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2003
D 26% Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) " Am I surprised that director Andrzej Bartkowiak's Cradle 2 the Grave is choppy, one-sided and utterly punchless? Not really." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2003
D 22% The Tuxedo (2002) " Like bread with no yeast, Tuxedo never rises to the occasion." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2002
D 53% Blood Work (2002) " Some say Eastwood could sleepwalk through detective thrillers of this nature. I say he just did." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2002
D 39% Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (2002) " It's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2002
D 77% Ice Age (2002) " Needs a hit of Ritalin as much as it needs an original idea." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2002
D 38% 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) " Screenwriter Rob Perez knows as much about both self-discipline and Catholicism as I know about echocardiography." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2002
D 23% John Q (2002) " Drowns in a sea of manipulative formulas and cardboard caricatures." — Eclipse Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2002
1/5 44% American Reunion (2012) " Lazy, stupid, recycled, immature, predictable, unfunny ... a pathetic attempt by a dead franchise to scrape the bottom of an already filthy barrel and squeeze a few more dollars from audience members seeking clichéd nostalgia. " — CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 5, 2012
1/5 18% The Art of Getting By (2011) " nauseatingly contrived " — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 16, 2011
1/5 28% Charlie St. Cloud (2010) " A melodramatic and hopelessly disorganized feature-length episode of "The Ghost Whisperer" that trots out an exhausted "Sixth Sense" escape clause after painting itself into one too many narrative corners. " — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 29, 2010
1/5 9% My Life in Ruins (2009) " Nia Vardalos is the new Yakov Smirnoff" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 4, 2009
1/5 21% Next Day Air (2009) " a rare type of disaster... putrid" — Filmcritic.com
Posted May 7, 2009
1/5 36% The Lucky Ones (2008) " The actual lucky ones will be sitting in a different movie theater, watching anything but this." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 25, 2008
1/5 43% Death Race (2008) " exists so critics will have something to put on their year-end "Worst Of" lists." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 21, 2008
1/5 39% Speed Racer (2008) " the summer's most irrelevant blockbuster" — Filmcritic.com
Posted May 8, 2008
1/5 72% Under the Same Moon (2008) " a string of poorly-written, obvious clichés that litter the road many travel from Mexico City to the southern United States" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 9, 2008
1/5 11% Fool's Gold (2008) " as pretty as it is dumb" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 7, 2008
1/5 25% El Cantante (2007) " Cmo terrible!" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 2, 2007
1/5 8% The Reaping (2007) " Trouble sleeping? Try The Reaping." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 5, 2007
1/5 19% I Think I Love My Wife (2007) " Suffering through Wife actually makes you miserable." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 15, 2007
1/5 65% Apocalypto (2006) " suffers the carte blanche excesses of a successful director who believes he's earned the right not to be told "no."" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 7, 2006
1/5 21% You, Me and Dupree (2006) " Between you and me, Dupree is a dud." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 13, 2006
1/5 19% The Wild (2006) " You will not find a worse movie in Walt Disney's animated canon than The Wild" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 13, 2006
1/5 43% Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) " Maybe placing the word "comedy" in the title is just another failed attempt at humor?" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 19, 2006
1/5 5% The Perfect Man (2005) " Dear Hilary... I can't see you or your movies anymore." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 16, 2005
1/5 29% Madison (2005) " only naïve adolescents with no prior film knowledge will stomach the pap" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 20, 2005
1/5 10% The Wedding Date (2005) " The shenanigans that first-time screenwriter Dana Cox concocts from this lame scenario fluctuate from stupid to lazy and back to dull" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 2, 2005
1/5 16% Alexander (2004) " A big misfire, a big bore, and a big fat waste of time." — Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 22, 2004
1/5 15% Raise Your Voice (2004) " flavorless... unappetizing... torture" — Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 6, 2004
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