ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sean Axmaker

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Two or Three Things I Know About Her
A-	Paris, Je T'aime
B+	Hot Fuzz
B	The Last Mimzy
B-	Climates
C+	TMNT
C	Puccini for Beginners
C-	The Ex
D+	The Condemned
D	The Bucket List
F	What Love Is

BEST REVIEWED
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A	The Dark Knight
A	Woman on the Beach
A+	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
A	Persepolis
A	No Country for Old Men
A	My Kid Could Paint That
A	Golden Door
A	The Taste of Tea
A	The Wind That Shakes the Barley
A	Two or Three Things I Know About Her
	more...

WORST REVIEWED
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F	What Love Is
F	Norbit
F	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
F	Mindhunters
F	National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
F	See Spot Run
D	Never Back Down
D	The Bucket List
D	Hannibal Rising
D	Happily N'Ever After
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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B	"The film walks a fine line between contempt for Polanski's crimes and sympathy for his trials and his screwed-up psyche, and it manages both..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 24, 2008	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)	88%
C	"... a largely plotless exercise in grown men behaving with the juvenile irresponsibility and self-centered obsession of spoiled children." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 24, 2008	Step Brothers (2008)	58%
N/A	"Jay and Mark Duplass: "The Hardest Part About Mixing Genres Is Mixing Genres"" -- GreenCine Posted Jul 23, 2008	Baghead (2008)	90%
	"*An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, Vampyr* is a horror movie as tone poem.*" -- Seanax.com* Posted Jul 22, 2008	Vampyr (1931)	100%
	"*The original Scarface, loosely but boldly based on the notorious life and legend of Al Capone, didn't invent the modern American gangster film. It blew it up." -- Seanax.com* Posted Jul 21, 2008	Scarface (1932)	100%
	"A blackly comic and insidiously sly love story in the unforgiving underworld of mob families and freelance criminals..." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 20, 2008	Prizzi's Honor (1985)	88%
	"This little seat-of-the-pants regional production chewed up and spit out taboos like raw meat in a feral feeding frenzy." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 20, 2008	Night of the Living Dead (1968)	95%
	"Is it the best comedy ever made? I don't know, but it surely is the funniest.I stand by that. And don't call me Shirley." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 20, 2008	Airplane! (1980)	100%
A	"It's the new gold standard for superhero noir." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 17, 2008	The Dark Knight (2008)	95%
	"... a pleasantly playful film with marvelous sight gags and brief moments of comic poetry." -- MSN.com Posted Jul 14, 2008	Trafic (1971)	100%
	"... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism." -- MSN.com Posted Jul 14, 2008	The Bank Job (2008)	78%
	"... it's not the most original setup, but then it's not the most original anthology horror..." -- MSN.com Posted Jul 14, 2008	Trapped Ashes (2006)	33%
	"Franz Osten... is a dynamic director with an eye for spectacular imagery and romantic visions, and a gift for visual storytelling and energetic pacing." -- MSN.com Posted Jul 14, 2008	A Throw of Dice (1929)	n/a
B	"Beneath the desperate bad behavior of Squires' aging hippie and Luke's tentative steps to connection is a story that rings with the authenticity of lived experience and earned life lessons." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 11, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	64%
B+	"... an engaging and generous profile of the fascinating folks who have chosen to live at the end of the world." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 10, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	95%
C-	"They're not a likeable bunch, to be sure, but the bigger problem is that there's little resonance to their stories." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 10, 2008	Garden Party (2008)	12%
	"... a modest but well-observed respite from the clich�s." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 10, 2008	The Wackness (2008)	64%
B-	"Sarah Gavron's adaptation of Monica Ali's novel is a thoughtful and often evocative drama of identity and assimilation..." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 3, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	62%
B-	"Sarah Gavron's adaptation of Monica Ali's novel is a thoughtful and often evocative drama of identity and assimilation..." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jul 3, 2008	Brick Lane (2008)	62%
	"Mother of Tears is contrived, confused, clumsy, and quite simply dreadful." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 3, 2008	Mother of Tears (2008)	50%
	"... where [director Peter] Berg makes it work is by refusing to sacrifice the integrity of his characters for an easy ending." -- Seanax.com Posted Jul 2, 2008	Hancock (2008)	38%
B-	"... an affecting portrait and a strong story with a compelling backdrop, and Chinese cinematographer Xiaoding Zhao makes the gorgeous locations look magnificent." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 29, 2008	The Children of Huang Shi (2008)	26%
	"... a juvenile-delinquent drama of disaffected youth in 1957 East Berlin... offers yet another vibrant, unexpected peek into the troubled social world of the socialist paradise." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 27, 2008	Berlin - Sch�nhauser Corner (1957)	n/a
	"... a genre hybrid: a psychological Western by way of a gothic melodrama, with a dark, shadowy style right out of [Anthony] Mann's earlier film noirs." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 27, 2008	The Furies (1950)	n/a
	"... a dull, dumb compendium of recycled adventure epic clich�s." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 27, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
	"(The)staging is more theatrical than cinematic, appropriate perhaps for a film so steeped in the culture of Broadway but less effective in building tension..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 27, 2008	The Velvet Touch (1948)	n/a
	"A lusty historical romp with a cheeky sense of humor and a rollicking energy..." -- Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Jun 27, 2008	Tom Jones (1963)	81%
B	"It's a twisted but beautiful love letter to a city, not factually correct but emotionally true. At least for [director Guy] Maddin." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 26, 2008	My Winnipeg (2008)	96%
B	"ou either go with the fantasy and enjoy the impossible acts of kinetic creativity or get stuck in the preposterousness of the premise and the flippant execution." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted Jun 26, 2008	Wanted (2008)	72%
A-	"WALLE, an animated robot love story with an environmental message and a slapstick delivery, is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer* Posted Jun 26, 2008	WALL-E (2008)	96%
	"... the cinema is at its best when it's invisible and we can get lost in her amazing, funny, serious and moving monologue..." -- GreenCine Posted Jun 19, 2008	Letting Go of God (2008)	n/a
	"*... the debut feature from French director Audrey Estrougo has echoes of Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive... but has its own sensibility and its own vivid surprises." -- GreenCine* Posted Jun 19, 2008	Ain't Scared (2008)	n/a
	"For Michel Gondry, [the film] becomes a kind of folk art spin on Hollywood gloss and a tribute to his own preferred style of filmmaking..." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	68%
	"... for all the glorification of the mercenary methods of this elite squad, it's still a fascinating portrait of a nightmarish police and crime culture and a vivid narrative." -- GreenCine Posted Jun 16, 2008	Elite Squad (2008)	83%
	"*The poverty and desperation is palpable, but where Slingshot* showed the constant hustling and thieving in a male-dominated culture, Foster Child is anchored by women...*" -- GreenCine* Posted Jun 16, 2008	Foster Child (2007)	n/a
	"The portraits of these kids often feel honest, sometimes intrusive, and occasionally they come off a little camera-conscious, which may simply be the nature of the beast." -- GreenCine Posted Jun 16, 2008	American Teen (2008)	59%
	"A fascinating true story... is buried in a mundane story of generational conflict." -- GreenCine Posted Jun 16, 2008	Bottle Shock (2008)	60%
	"... almost indistinguishable from any other portrait of the aimless American male who is jolted from passivity to action by a reckless pal." -- GreenCine Posted Jun 16, 2008	Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)	n/a
	"[Jessica] Chastain does a great job of igniting Jolene's mix of street-wise survivalist instinct and romantic soul. Her performance anchors a film that has no solid grounding" -- GreenCine Posted Jun 16, 2008	Jolene (2008)	n/a
	"Director Barry Sonnenfeld brings a sense of whimsy to the comic script, balancing farce with big-budget action and somehow making it all work." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Men In Black (1997)	90%
	"... at heart it's a lean, dusty Western classic set to the real time of a ticking clock." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	High Noon (1952)	95%
	"Claude Sautet made his directorial debut with this tough, lean, smart piece of French crime cinema made on the cusp of the new wave." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Classe Tous Risques (1960)	100%
	"[Hayden] Christensen has all the emotional range of moss, and [Samuel L.] Jackson simply recycles old roles with his scenery-chewing performance." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
	"[Don] Siegel is lean, terse director who is happy leave "Dirty" Harry the vivid kind of moral conundrum that makes movies interesting..." -- Seanax.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Dirty Harry (1971)	97%
	"It's breathtakingly gorgeous and almost comically clich�d, which [Francois] Girard's humorless direction only exacerbates, but the Oscar-winning score by John Corigliano is wonderfully alive." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Red Violin (1998)	70%
	"[Gary] Cooper brings a wounded, weary dignity to his role as a man haunted by a past that has returned with a vengeance..." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Man of the West (1958)	100%
	"The black-and-white photography captures the working-class milieu and the late-'70s Manchester music scene with an easy intimacy..." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Control (2007)	88%
	"*This tired spoof of 300* is ostensibly a movie parody but almost all the references are ripped from TV reality shows, television commercials and celebrity scandals.*" -- MSN.com* Posted Jun 16, 2008	Meet the Spartans (2008)	2%
	"Will Ferrell appears to be simply running out the clock in this spoof of the short-lived American Basketball Association." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
	"... an amazing world for the fantastical wonders of flying carpets, mechanical horses and a 50-foot genie with a bellowing laugh." -- MSN.com Posted Jun 16, 2008	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)	100%

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