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SEAN AXMAKER
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• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Seattle Weekly
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• Turner Classic Movies Online

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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.
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"It's the new gold standard for superhero noir." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 17, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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"Hong [Sang-soo] moves slowly but deftly through scenes rich with social games and veiled confessions and allows his characters to emerge sadder but wiser." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 1, 2008
 
Woman on the Beach (2008)88%
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"... a grueling and deeply affecting human drama." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)96%
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"While not visually explicit, "Persepolis" is an uncompromising look at the culture of Iran as seen by an observant and open-minded child..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)96%
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"... strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)95%
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"Like the best of the new wave of American documentaries, it becomes about far more than the human-interest angle at the center of the story..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)93%
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"Painted onscreen in a hypnotic mix of hypercharged naturalism and magic realism, Golden Door is not about the destination but the journey." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
Golden Door (2007)71%
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"It's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Ken Loach, who wears his social-justice heart on his sleeve..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 19, 2007
 
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)89%
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"51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 11, 2007
 
51 Birch Street (2006)95%
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"Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 11, 2007
 
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)96%
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"The shaggy honesty is bracing and the modest stories of young adults too tentative and nervous to do more than talk around an issue have a perceptive authenticity that doesn't shake off easily." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 7, 2006
 
Mutual Appreciation (2006)88%
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"... a beauty and a richly textured palette rarely seen in such video documentaries." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Iraq in Fragments (2006)91%
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"It's a film stripped to bloody basics, a ferocious and taut exercise in action horror that recalls early James Cameron, with more gore and less sentimentality." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 3, 2006
 
The Descent (2006)85%
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"But behind the utopian fairy tale is the genial authoritarianism... Ambivalence has rarely been made so lyrical and lovely." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 20, 2006
 
Iron Island (2006)97%
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"The style is pure Hou: richly textured atmosphere, tiptoeing camerawork and long, languorous takes of scenes full of privileged moments of human activity." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 13, 2006
 
Three Times (2006)86%
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"Cristi Puiu doesn't pull his punches in his barbed black comedy on the state of socialized medicine in Hungary." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 4, 2006
 
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)93%
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"... the dynamics shift from moment to moment. The beauty of the film is how director Kelly Reichardt brilliantly captures those moments with lucid simplicity." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 4, 2006
 
Old Joy (2006)85%
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"Lajos Koltai's.. textured re-creation of enduring the unimaginable with quiet delicacy is the most hauntingly beautiful film about the Holocaust ever made." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 13, 2006
 
Fateless (2006)92%
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"... a sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 27, 2006
 
Thank You For Smoking (2006)86%
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"... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 6, 2006
 
The Intruder (2005)84%
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"... the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 2, 2006
 
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)84%
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"Kurosawa... fills the film with an eerie emptiness, where suicides erupt out of nowhere and mankind dissolves in an oily smudge of hopelessness..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 4, 2005
 
Pulse (2005)73%
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"Rodrigo Garcia may be the closest thing we have to a master short-story artist working on the big screen." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 
Nine Lives (2005)75%
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"His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 25, 2005
 
Kings and Queen (2005)87%
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"... rich, lush -- simply exquisite" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 25, 2005
 
2046 (2005)84%
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"Herzog the dreamer genuinely respects Treadwell... but it's Treadwell's contradictions and controversies that fascinate Herzog the filmmaker..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 11, 2005
 
Grizzly Man (2005)93%
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"These aren't puzzle pieces that fit snuggly together but fragments of character in revealing moments when weakness or pettiness overcome calm and affection." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
5X2 (2005)64%
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"Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devastating of troubles, and beautiful surprises in love, friendship and family." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted May 12, 2005
 
The Best of Youth (2005)95%
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"... a bittersweet look at the joy and frustration and inspirational possibilities of art in a world fixated on appearances and measured by the marketplace." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 14, 2005
 
Look at Me (2005)88%
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"Beautiful, elevating and achingly sad." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 10, 2005
 
Nobody Knows (2005)96%
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"The imagery is joyous, delightfully imaginative, serene and beautiful, and ultimately enchanting." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 26, 2007
 
The Taste of Tea (2004)100%
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"... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingering scenes that cast a spell over the almost abstract story." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 13, 2006
 
Innocence (2004)65%
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"Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jan 12, 2006
 
The Weeping Meadow (2004)65%
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"As empowering and triumphant a film as you'll see this or any year." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 17, 2005
 
Moolaade (2004)99%
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"Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 1, 2004
 
Before Sunset (2004)94%
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"... the wonderfully weird trip leaves you with meaty questions, both metaphysical and moral, and a journey... even more philosophically invigorating and emotionally intense." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 2, 2004
 
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004)90%
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"Deft and delightful." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 26, 2003
 
Peter Pan (2003)76%
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"... a brilliant, stunning piece of work, perhaps not Assayas' best, but certainly his most fearless and impassioned." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Oct 2, 2003
 
Demonlover (2003)48%
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"Sofia Coppola's sophomore film is another exploration of delicate relationships and uncommunicated frustrations, this one in a beautifully composed atmosphere of isolation." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Sep 12, 2003
 
Lost in Translation (2003)95%
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"Friday Night is the most sensuous and intimate work of cinema of the past few years, a film that luxuriates in the immediacy of the moment." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 7, 2003
 
Friday Night (2003)81%
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"... an engaging and engaged comic drama, [Alan Rudolph's] best and most beautifully human film in years." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 7, 2003
 
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)85%
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"The Dardennes' masterful casting and austere style amplify this simple but powerful parable." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jul 24, 2003
 
The Son (2003)88%
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"This is no portrait of outrage, but of ambiguity and uncertainty." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 19, 2003
 
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)97%
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"The sheer focus and intensity create an unforgettable experience." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Mar 13, 2003
 
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003)85%
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"... mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Dec 12, 2002
 
Quitting (2002)77%
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"Claude Miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Nov 29, 2002
 
Alias Betty (2002)92%
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"... a mosaic that adds a shot of offbeat comedy to the lyrical grace of Iran's serene cinema." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Aug 15, 2002
 
Secret Ballot (2002)84%
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"... immerses the viewer in the very texture of the land, the rituals and the pace of an existence that couldn't be more different from life in our modern urban world." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Jun 20, 2002
 
The Fast Runner (2002)90%
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"...a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 25, 2002
 
Time Out (2002)95%
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"...a vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Apr 4, 2002
 
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)91%

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