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	417 Reviews by Sean Axmaker 417 Reviews by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer Movie: Baby Mama Release date: 4/18/2008 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) The plodding script and the plot twists tossed in at predictable intervals don't help... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Martian Child Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) John Cusack radiates compassion and affection... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dan in Real Life Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) The cozy, lived-in atmosphere created by the ensemble and the unlikely chemistry of Carell and Bi... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) If you're still not sure who to root for, just let the bombastic soundtrack pound the cues into y... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lars and the Real Girl Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) All the warmth and acceptance of the concerned community helps distract from the rather creaky ps... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Kid Could Paint That Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) ...provocative... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Finishing the Game Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/0) What exactly he's trying to say about Bruce Lee's fame and impact or the banal reality of genre m... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lust, Caution Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...tastefully erotic... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Into the Wild Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Penn throws you headlong into the romance of his journey and the buzzing thrill of his quest... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Valley of Elah Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...Tommy Lee Jones (gives)...a beautifully realized performance. 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eastern Promises Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The restraint of both director and actor makes this steely gangster drama reverberate long after ... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exiled Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a gangster odyssey turned bullet ballet of romantic nihilism. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Hottest State Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's nothing new, but Hawke captures some evocative textures and honest moments. 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: The 11th Hour Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) I admire The 11th Hour... more than I like it. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Seth Gordon's portrait of obsessive classic arcade game players finds high drama and murky intrig... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superbad Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...everyone should feel a twinge of recognition when the boys realize that, vows of loyalty and f... 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rush Hour 3 Release date: 8/10/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) After a six-year hiatus, the Rush Hour brand has lost its drive. 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...nails the essence of '80s pop stupidity. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Introducing the Dwights Release date: 7/4/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Director Cherie Nowlan creates vivid personalities for the entire family and exposes the raw nerv... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: License to Wed Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) If you can't predict how it all turns out, you've never seen a family sitcom. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Transformers Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a screeching metal, smash-and-crash, extreme-action movie lover's dream come true. It's also ... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Moore eases up from the political sideshow theatrics that make his previous films so entertaining... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... hearty and tasty, created from fresh ingredients and cooked up with unexpected flavors and da... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evening Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... so distanced from the emotions of the story that it never breathes on its own. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Live Free or Die Hard Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... there's still something cinematically satisfying in seeing the veteran street cop McClane plu... 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady Chatterley Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A sensuous film that runs close to three hours. They are gentle, peaceful hours with the bittersw... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken English Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Both admirably and frustratingly low-key... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evan Almighty Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a bland, half-hearted comedy... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eagle vs. Shark Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) More offbeat than funny... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Behind the dutifully executed spectacle is just another episode tossed off to meet a deadline. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lights in the Dusk Release date: 6/13/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Aki Kaurismaki's gloomy take on film noir... is pure Kaurismaki, done in the director's inimitabl... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Surf's Up Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) This ride doesn't take you anywhere new, but the moves are cool and the waves are impressive. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Angel-A Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the sleek style and sassy attitude gets mired in a vague, soft-headed psychology of self-affir... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Golden Door Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...sublime... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fay Grim Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Too hip to play it straight and too cool to resort to an actual story... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ex, The Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) An off-key comedy that has all the hallmarks of a desperate makeover... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Away From Her Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... less a drama about Alzheimer's disease than a cinematic poem of love and loss. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paris je t'aime Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... modestly but richly sculpted pieces, a feeling carved out of a brief slice of time and place,... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Waitress Release date: 5/2/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Keri Russell is sweetly melancholy... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Condemned, The Release date: 4/27/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a sloppy, indifferent action movie with a sadistic edge and a sour hypocrisy. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Condemned, The Release date: 4/27/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's a film without conviction, without personality, without even the visceral charge of a well-e... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triad Election Release date: 4/25/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... exhibit A in the case for the Hong Kong gangster film as the new genre standard. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Everything's Gone Green Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's more clever than smart, but Paul Fox directs with the same easygoing attitude of its slacker... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Fuzz Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Like the endless rounds in guns that never run out, the comic ammunition keeps Hot Fuzz blast... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Year of the Dog Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) At his best, [Mike] White's writing straddles the line between the comedy and the cruelty of emot... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) I found it intermittently funny, often weirdly engaging and utterly incomprehensible. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Disturbia Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) That dynamic of alienated teens versus the icily assured adult... brings a defining edge to the o... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adam's Apples Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of GreenCine: (7/0) Jensen doesn't pretend it's cute and/or harmless -- there's a fascinating ambiguity to the happy ... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: TV Set, The Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The moral is simple: television is no place for a creative artist. 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Are We Done Yet? Release date: 4/4/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The plot follows an inevitable path of life lessons and forgiving hugs... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Firehouse Dog Release date: 4/4/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Only the dog will make your day. 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pride Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...as exasperating as it is conventionally satisfying. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Color Me Kubrick Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's entertaining if not exactly enlightening. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: TMNT Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Don't worry if you can't keep the green team members straight; despite color coding and weapons s... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Ken Loach, who wears his social-justice heart... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Host (Gwoemul), The Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The most dynamic and vital creature feature to invade American screens in years... 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Hogs Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The good-natured banter between the slapstick gags is the closest the film comes to convincing us... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lives of Others Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Mühe's performance is brilliant... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hannibal Rising Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Peter Webber's direction is as plodding and obvious as the script... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Smokin' Aces isn't a story, it's a premise with a madhouse of characters flung into a collisi... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Italian, The Release date: 1/19/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Director Andrei Kravchuk likes his characters too much to put anyone in genuine peril, which is b... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alpha Dog Release date: 1/12/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) all bark, no bite. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happily N'Ever After Release date: 1/5/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) All it lacks is wit, character and laughs. 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Freedom Writers Release date: 1/5/2007 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...moving. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Woman is the Future of Man Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:48 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... elliptical portrait of bored, womanizing men in contemporary South Korea crippled by a lack o... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Our Daily Bread Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:40 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's as much conceptual art as dispassionate survey of the bloodless assembly line nature of the ... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hair High Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:33 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Following Sean Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:31 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... we may see something of our own journey reflected in [the documentary]. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Army of Shadows, The Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:26 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of GreenCine: (7/0) If anything, the vision is more fatalistic than any of Melville's crime classics. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pan's Labyrinth Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...Del Toro finds warmth and wonder amidst the brutality... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... plays like an Asian take on Shakespearean royal tragedy executed with Hong Kong action scenes... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Venus Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a tenderly observed story... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Arthur and the Invisibles Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...mixes overripe live action and starchy CGI animation. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unaccompanied Minors Release date: 12/8/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's not as shrill as it could be... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... low-wattage power slide down a yellow-brick road of thrash cliches, stoner skits and music-vi... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Candy Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...directed not with a slap of tragedy but a resigned sigh. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harsh Times Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Well-intentioned but not very well directed, it makes for a better psychological profile than a f... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flushed Away Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...it's filled to overflowing with mischievous gags for kids and adults alike... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death of a President Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...it's more than simply a well-crafted piece of fake history. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the serviceable budget-minded spectacle should satisfy younger viewers while the high-powered ... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Facing the Giants Release date: 9/29/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... full of praise for God in place of foul language and biblical quotes in place of deeds. It pr... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Science of Sleep, The Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There is whimsy and imagination to spare in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Protector, The Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a furiously choreographed martial-arts spectacle wrapped in a fumbling narrative. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Quiet, The Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...gets lost in the twilight between Gothic social drama and lurid exploitation. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Illusionist, The Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of GreenCine: (7/0) Crafted with a budget-minded luscious sense of period detail to distract from the rudimentary dir... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Descent, The Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a nerve-racking, claustrophobic survival thriller... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: John Tucker Must Die Release date: 7/28/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...as toothless as it is tepid. 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Clerks II Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The attitude is older, maybe a tad sentimental, and as adolescent and reckless as ever. 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster House Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) With a sensibility that falls somewhere between the Stephen King and Tim Burton, this is a horror... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...pure cinematic junk food, a big, silly summer blockbuster whipped up from virtually nothing. 186 other reviews of this movie Movie: Strangers With Candy Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) If the slapdash script lacks bite, it has no shortage of attitude. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car? Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It may sound like a downer, but Paine turns it into a call for action. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hidden Blade, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the restrained drama both punctures the mythic ideal of the samurai culture and spins a roman... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) At least (director) Lin's local color make the idiocy fun to watch. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: District B13 Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... lean, clean, adrenaline- and indignation-fueled B movie with a social commentary that is too ... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Release date: 4/26/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Cristi Puiu doesn't pull his punches in his barbed black comedy on the state of socialized medici... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Celestine Prophecy, The Release date: 4/21/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... indifferent direction douses whatever conviction gave the novel its ardent following. 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look Both Ways Release date: 4/14/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Sarah Watt's unexpectedly hopeful tribute to the fragility of human life and the feelings of help... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 4 Release date: 4/14/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a barrage of low-minded gags with high-spirited energy. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The exposition is lazy and sloppy and the story has little creative heat. 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: ATL Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a surprisingly intelligent and admirably modest story about growing up on Atlanta's south sid... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lonesome Jim Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a stuttering, slogging comedy about depression, failure and other sure-fire laughs. 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thank You for Smoking Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a breathtaking satire. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Find Me Guilty Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It shouldn't work, but the story runs on pure Diesel. 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Don't Come Knocking Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) For all of its minor pleasures, this encore lacks the depth of its conviction. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Alexandre Aja's remake is remarkably faithful, directed with the same stark, stripped-down style ... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Second Chance, The Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...interesting, if not exactly surprising. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 3 Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...lazy ideas and indifferent execution. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Something New Release date: 2/3/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The experiences of a professional African American woman in a predominantly white business cultur... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...as much commentary as adaptation... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Imagine Me & You Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The cordial company of the characters and the snappy wit of the script make Ol Parker's British r... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Why we Fight Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a sobering history lesson as well as a political polemic on foreign policy and the growth of ... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tree of Palme, A Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) (T)he sprawling journey tends to bog down in complicated exposition... and the animation is surpr... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Time and Tide Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Tsui Hark hasn't John Woo's flair for kinetic ballet, but he throws every flashy technique he kno... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:44 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the orderly and clean drama is more like theater than history come to life. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wolf Creek Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the ordeal is excruciating -- for the audience and for the victims... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Family Stone, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... pleasant enough company, but it's a bit like playing charades with the same titles over and o... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contempora... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The big screen isn't the best venue for her "ain't I cute?" shtick and shock tactics... but Silve... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bee Season Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) This well-meaning mistake gets lost in the metaphors. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chicken Little Release date: 11/4/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...it's often funny but it flails around like a chicken with its head cut off... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paradise Now Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's an explosive topic and Abu-Assad walks a fine line through a minefield of issues, all of the... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw II Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... this time around the ordeal is less grueling than simply distasteful. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Winter Passing Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There isn't a spark in the familiar emotional situation or a reason to care how these amiably bla... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Doom Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the most cleverly engineered video-game movie made to date. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: President's Last Bang, The Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the way it brazenly mixes matter-of-fact brutality with the deadpan comedy of the fumbling ex... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Roll Bounce Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intellgencer: (7/0) The only thing surprising in Roll Bounce is that the funky glitter fashions and wall-to-wall ... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the film wants to have it both ways. 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memory of a Killer, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A striking, somewhat absurd Belgian thriller... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Games of Love and Chance Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Abdellatif Kechiche's beautifully observed tale of high-school kids in the projects outside Paris... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cave, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A high-concept creature feature that manages to fumble the concept and the creature in its sloppy... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Release date: 8/19/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Park's deliberate direction is full of serene scenes and lovely images for a film so full of viol... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Last Days Release date: 8/15/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... Van Sant takes an impressionistic, non-linear approach, which creates a queasy disorientation... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty Persuasion Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The disingenuous attempt to give the tawdry story some kind of social import only makes the tinny... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...canny but hollow... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...an emotionally haunting core. 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saraband Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...feels like the effort of a tired artist reworking the same themes. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead Release date: 6/24/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The social commentary isn't subtle, but Romero delivers the goods so effectively that many won't ... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The best opening-night film the Seattle International Film Festival has featured in years... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Howl's Moving Castle Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki's imagination is the most creative in animated filmmaking. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Tension Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...satisfied merely to wallow in women in peril, cinematic sadism and the spectacle of violent de... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock School Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The film -- like Green himself -- steps back from the teacher to see the apprentices take center ... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saving Face Release date: 5/27/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The screenplay isn't always smooth or subtle, but Wu quietly reveals small, telling details... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mad Hot Ballroom Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's a kick to see the kids not merely learn to dance -- and dance well -- but to enjoy it. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kings and Queen Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and ... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...overlong, unscary, poorly paced and banally written. 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lot Like Love, A Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...charming and at times disarmingly surprising... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Interpreter, The Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (7/0) Pollack becomes so caught up in the machinations of plot that he allows the politics to boil down... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Save the Green Planet Release date: 4/20/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Made up of equal parts whimsy and dementia, Jang Jun-hwan relentlessly pushes his story of madnes... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Winter Solstice Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Winter Solstice could uses a little less steam and a little more fire. 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kung Fu Hustle Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Chow packs a lot of action, a crazed cascade of comedy, a parade of characters and a non-stop bar... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look At Me Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a bittersweet look at the joy and frustration and inspirational possibilities of art...< 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sin City Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (5/2) A pastiche of the most naively macho extremes of brutal pulp fiction, lovingly rendered as mock a... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty Shop Release date: 3/30/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the crowd at this Beauty Shop [is] winning company. 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Old Boy Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... any intended irony is beaten into submission. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hostage Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The increasingly savage and sadistic violence turns the final act into a small-scale apocalypse. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Upside of Anger, The Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Writer/director Mike Binder scripts sarcastic humor and dialogue that just avoids being glib, tha... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be Cool Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) John Travolta is nothing if not cool as Chili Palmer in Be Cool. 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventu), The (2005) Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Giordana's redemptive vision provides a sense of discovery and a well of hope in the most devasta... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son of the Mask Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a harried, screechy film that goes nowhere at a breakneck pace, full of sound and furious sla... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constantine Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Keanu looks lost in the film's desultory attempts at romantic tension but otherwise his dour blan... 180 other reviews of this movie Movie: Downfall Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Though Ganz doesn't look much like Hitler (beyond the hairpiece and the trademark mustache), he c... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Schultze Gets the Blues Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There's a pleasant delight in the comically dour faces of these old Eastern bloc men, an apprecia... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Deep Throat Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...energetic and entertaining... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitch Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...[Smith's] antics comes off like teen movie gags softened for an adult romantic comedy audience... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wedding Date, The Release date: 2/4/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the steps look all too familiar. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Twilight Samurai, The Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... both confronts the contradictions of the Bushido code in the mercenary world of political exp... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Little Eye Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:38 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... an unimaginative, nasty, glibly cynical piece of work. 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Life in the Universe Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:37 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a dreamy study in stillness broken by suicide fantasies, flashbacks, and the hired killers, b... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Go For Zucker Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:32 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A brash, energetic, cheerfully slovenly comedy with broadly drawn characters and big performances... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Godzilla: The Final War Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:32 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (7/0) ... a blithely campy, altogether good-natured love letter to the classic Godzilla films of the 19... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dawn of the Dead Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:29 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Romero's satire is largely replaced by a sardonic gallows humor...but otherwise it's a bloody ent... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Good Company Release date: 12/29/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's a smart, savvy and satisfying Hollywood comedy set in the real world of economic survival, f... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Imaginary Heroes Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The questions are more interesting before Harris answers them in all-too- neat explanations that ... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blade: Trinity Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The third time out for the vampire-hunting superhero is no charm. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Purple Butterfly Release date: 11/26/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... rich with emotional turmoil and searing beauty, but it could have used a little more time in ... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw Release date: 10/29/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the most extreme entry yet in the bleak and dusky splinter of American thrillers about crimin... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sex is Comedy Release date: 10/20/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It feels too self-satisfied, but the prickly personalities and relationships have the ring of exp... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Shame, A Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) John Waters reaffirms his credentials as king of gleefully transgressive cinema with all the gari... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shaun of the Dead Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...bloody brilliant. 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Goodbye, Dragon Inn Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... at once an elegy for the communal experience of cinema-going and another quintessentially Tsa... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. 3000 Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) As fresh as a highlight reel of day-after replays, Mr. 3000 is a case of major-league talent stuc... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seatlle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...less offensive than embarrassing...< 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Resident Evil: Apocalypse Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...best enjoyed by keeping in mind the latest cinematic proposition that apocalyptic disaster doe... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Innocence Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingerin... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hero Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (6/1) Yimou plays his images like a visual symphony, and turns a potential costume pageant into an exhi... 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brown Bunny, The Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... for all its notoriety, The Brown Bunny is an honorable and often enticing piece of personal f... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mean Creek Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Directed with a naked naturalism in a rural Oregon setting, it's so earnest it hurts. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Without a Paddle Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Imagine Deliverance as a PG-13 slapstick cartoon for 13-year-old boys. Better yet, don't. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Collateral Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...clever but familiar... 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bang Rajan Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The thuddingly blunt epic is obvious and intermittently clumsy... yet winning in its own charming... 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Black Book Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... perversely fascinating, if ultimately disappointing. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A superior summer action-movie sequel in every sense of the word... 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Before Sunset Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing. 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Chicks Release date: 6/23/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... feels like a feature-length sketch: Some Like It Hot with a white-face twist. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There's nothing new to the old game except snazzy outfits, slick accoutrements and better banter,... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Imagine a John Hughes teen comedy remade by Jim Jarmusch and dropped into the town that time forg... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...there's never an engaging moment, let alone a creative one. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel, The Release date: 6/4/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... plays out like a naturalistic fable in an austere, timeless land in which ancient traditions ... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breakin' All the Rules Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) True love draws blood, or so the film's awkward metaphor goes. Breakin' All the Rules leaves litt... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saddest Music in the World, The Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... so stuffed with Maddin-ess that it never manages to get past the glorious surfaces. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Next Door, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Despite the cynical cleverness and slick direction by Luke Greenfield, (it) favors giggly juvenil... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Tired and glib, it tries to milk humor from the sniping, sass and simple disrespect of its unplea... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jersey Girl Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) His ease with characters and clever dialogue helps sustain the film through an otherwise utterly ... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogville Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) [von Trier's] contempt for humanity is becoming harder to hide with stylistic flourish. He doesn'... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spartan Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... the mechanics are contrived (but Mamet's) crisp dialogue, and Kilmer's underplayed intensity,... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Lizard's Club Dread Release date: 2/27/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... rigor mortis has set in. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eurotrip Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a forgettable romp... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbershop 2: Back in Business Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) For all of the snappy verbal sparring and romantic complications that embellish the film, it is u... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Bounce, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Running under 90 minutes, the film feels pared away, with surfing shots and beach views cut in to... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Butterfly Effect, The Release date: 1/23/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The metaphysics are fuzzy at best and just plain sloppy the rest of the time... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tokyo Godfathers Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of San Francisco Chronicle: (7/0) ...it's really a film about family, traditional and non-traditional. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came Polly Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...amiable if predictable comedy... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peter Pan Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Deft and delightful. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Love Don't Cost suffers from split personality... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honey Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Alba is supposed to be just a homegirl with passion for dance -- Honey from the block -- but she ... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 3 Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Where the Wayanses flogged every last chuckle from their belabored ideas, Zucker spring-loads his... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: School of Rock Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) .. a familiar song -- the journey of arrested adolescent/adult Dewey Finn (Jack Black) to maturit... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Cult film icon Campbell made his reputation on enthusiasm and winking self-awareness, but his bed... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cabin Fever Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...delivers the goods with old-fashioned gusto and modern ingenuity. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lost In Translation Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's about being alone in a crowd and the power of unexpected friendships. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: So Close Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...sleek, silly, completely ridiculous and irresistible. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Party Monster Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...take out the fashions and the culture of self-promotion and empty celebrity and it's a familia... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Other Side of the Bed, The Release date: 8/29/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Caught up in the spirit and energy inherent in the musical, the beautiful bed-hopping twentysomet... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battle of Shaker Heights, The Release date: 8/22/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) If there is a delicate story of forgiveness, friendship and family buried somewhere in Erica Been... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Splendor Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) In the world of comic-book movies, American Splendor is the real deal, the warts-and-all adventur... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Uptown Girls Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...rich with irritation. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Freaky Friday Release date: 8/6/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a minor treasure: a family-friendly remake funnier, fresher and more affecting than the flavor... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Wedding Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's often helplessly hilarious in its adolescent gross-out way, yet the cast periodically invest... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Lives of Dentists, The Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...an engaging and engaged comic drama... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Magdalene Sisters, The Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) (It) isn't subtle... but it is passionate and angry and rousing where you might expect it to beco... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gigli Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) We're happy that Ben and J. Lo at least found off-screen chemistry. 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the nuttiest big-screen video game you'll ever have the pleasure of seeing somebody else play. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Pretty Things Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Frears' presentation of his world is so passionate that you wish Dirty Pretty Things had the dram... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garage Days Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Alex Proyas directs with high energy and brash innocence and has a grand time putting his technol... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Housekeeper, The Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...Berri's modest, human-size direction brings a subdued thoughtfulness to it all... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Capture the Castle Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...less a fairy tale than a cracked mirror reflection of a Jane Austen novel. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Release date: 7/9/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a slight but disarmingly entertaining surprise. 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Release date: 7/2/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the unpretentious efficiency of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is refreshing. 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...kinetically dazzling and utterly nonsensical. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gloomy Sunday Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Like a lushly histrionic Hollywood production of old, there is something compelling and shameless... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Release date: 6/13/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) This is one of the rare films that effectively encapsulates the plot in its title. 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Friday Night Release date: 5/23/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the most sensuous and intimate work of cinema of the past few years... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: L'Auberge Espagnole Release date: 5/16/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Where so many odd-couple-type movies make a big deal about overcoming differences, this community... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memories of Murder Release date: 5/2/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The script is as sloppy as Song (Kang-ho)'s unkempt cop, sprinkled with intriguing ideas and imag... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: City of Ghosts Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Dillon directs at a lazy lope, but what he lacks in narrative expediency, he makes up for in the ... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: It Runs in the Family Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... indistinct, uneventful and amiably dull. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Car Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Karen Moncrieff's evocation of the awkward, clashing relationships... and her clear-eyed look at ... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Confidence Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...delivers a clever confidence game, if not much else. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Better Luck Tomorrow Release date: 4/11/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) An unexpected and often inspired portrait of gifted Southern California high school students who ... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...more complex and ambiguous than the usual Hollywood live-action blockbuster... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head of State Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Head of State is undeniably inconsistent, but when Rock hits he's dangerously funny. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fulltime Killer Release date: 3/21/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The dreamy flow back and forth through time and memory and the shifting point of view across four... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hunted, The Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The Hunted is really about Friedkin's lean, solid approach to action... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tears of the Sun Release date: 3/7/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's hard to say what is more upsetting: the atrocities of a brutal African dictator's militia ag... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ten, The Release date: 3/5/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...takes some unusual turns. 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Open Hearts Release date: 2/21/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...benefits from the best qualities of Dogme, the manifesto that was supposed to get cinema back ... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days Release date: 2/7/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...entertaining if slight... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guru, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...offers precious little inspiration, and the only irony it manages is surely unintended. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son, The Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...beautifully human. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the Bend Release date: 1/1/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The cutesy twists may not be predictable, but they send the characters through familiar landscape... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Uzumaki Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:46 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... less a story than an inexplicable nightmare, right down to the population's shrugging accepta... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: I'm Going Home Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:34 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A minor film with major pleasures... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happiness of the Katakuris Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:33 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy Happiness is a warmhearted film ab... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dog Soldiers Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:29 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Dog Soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it, energizes it and takes big bloody chomps ... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evelyn Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...ultimately reduces a potentially rich battle against the forces of inertia to utterly familiar... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Drumline Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Don't expect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The innocence of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Friday After Next Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's all a rather shapeless good time... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Half Past Dead Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The years have not been good to Seagal, who resembles the Pillsbury Doughboy even under baggy pri... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Femme Fatale Release date: 11/6/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's a beautiful madness. 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Roger Dodger Release date: 10/25/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Sharply written and confidentially directed, the feature debut of Dylan Kidd is the kind of chara... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: All the Queen's Men Release date: 10/25/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Afraid to pitch into farce, yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics, All the Queen's Men is fi... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brown Sugar Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation. 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Oleander Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The leaping story line, shaped by director Peter Kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impress... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rules of Attraction, The Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic t... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Welcome to Collinwood Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The result is a diversion so soggy that even the few combustible comic disasters fail to light a ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tuxedo, The Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) This ill-fitting Tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Das Experiment Release date: 9/18/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There's not enough insight to the social phenomenon presented onscreen, but that doesn't make the... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Crush Release date: 8/16/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a summer movie that knows it's a summer movie. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Ballot Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...an education hiding in a comedy... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) James Bond has nothing to fear from Vin Diesel's Gen-XXX upstart Xander Cage. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Girl, The Release date: 8/7/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) At its best, The Good Girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master of Disguise, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Full Frontal Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The cast feels adrift in a sea of improvisation, while the camera pretends an intimacy that is on... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Kiss, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Muccino is honest in the emotional damage left by his immature men and passionate in his portrait... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember Release date: 7/26/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...Myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? Release date: 7/26/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) (A) misfired exercise in recycled crime movie clich�s... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuart Little 2 Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...wholesome, warm and energetic -- if predictable... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Legged Freaks Release date: 7/17/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It entertains with laughs, gasps, gooey spectacle and a bemused sense of fun. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sex and Lucia Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...dynamic, vigorous... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... (like)channel surfing between the Discovery Channel and a late-night made-for-cable action mo... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reign of Fire Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is es... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast Runner (Atanarjuat), The (2002) Release date: 6/7/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Some may find it slow. I found it utterly spellbinding. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elling Release date: 5/29/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...hits every cliche we've come to expect, including the assumption that "crazy" people are innoc... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Insomnia Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Nolan bravely treads where few American films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ... 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: New Guy, The Release date: 5/10/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... so disconnected you have to wonder if pages were lost on the way to the set. 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scorpion King, The Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's hard to say whether the Rock saves the movie or merely defines it. 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triumph of Love, The Release date: 4/17/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) "My god, I'm behaving like an idiot!" Yes, you are, Ben Kingsley. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: New Best Friend Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set o... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Trouble Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Streamlined to a tight, brisk 85-minute screwball thriller, "Big Trouble" is funny, harmless and ... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Time Out Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a jo... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age Release date: 3/15/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Think of it as "The Jungle Book" with a case of frostbite. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Collateral Damage Release date: 2/8/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's about as convincing as any other Arnie musclefest, but has a little too much resonance with ... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Slackers Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex, outrageous pranks and scenes designed... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Snow Dogs Release date: 1/18/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Like shave ice without the topping, this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Release date: 1/11/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a glitzy, gorgeous, stylistically flamboyant adventure spun around an at times absurd plot wit... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Business of Fancydancing, The Release date: 1/1/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The anger and betrayal hanging in the wake of shattered relationships and conflicted identities l... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vertical Ray of the Sun, The Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:47 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The story is pure melodrama but Tran photographs it with a sense of grace that doesn't judge... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Operator, The Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:40 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...Dichter expects us to accept his abrupt transformation from ruthless player to spiritual conve... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matter of Taste, A Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:38 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Taste, obsession and the temptations of the good life swirl around this deliciously dark tale of ... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ginger Snaps Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:32 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There's a nice undercurrent of black humor that mines absurdities from an adolescent perspective,... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Am Sam Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...two hours-plus of numbing melodramatic nothingness drowned in the sticky, sweet syrup Sam love... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlotte Gray Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The politics are confused and the atmosphere is a muddy mess, a haphazard mix of continental acce... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) For all their rambunctious energy and rebellion, these kids are innocents out of a 1950s sitcom a... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kandahar Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Makhmalbaf's astounding and haunting imagery tells a story of devastation, desperation and povert... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Backbone, The Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) What gives the story resonance is the tenderness and sacrifice and even innocence del Toro reveal... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sidewalks of New York Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Edward Burns is fast turning from American indie success story to bad Woody Allen imitation with ... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien Release date: 10/17/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...a vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' r... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock Star Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ...this "Almost Famous" wannabe is as naive and simple as Wahlberg's copycat gone large... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: O Release date: 8/31/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The pathological envy, racism, fear and jealousy that drive Shakespeare's "Othello" make a scary ... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Release date: 8/24/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) I can�t imagine how Smith can capture a big enough audience to pay off this private joke, but the... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Pie 2 Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) American Pie 2 is hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get. 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Osmosis Jones Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It has zippy energy, visual imagination, inspired puns and all the fart jokes, booger gags, and v... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Legally Blonde Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Witherspoon is a talented comedian who can perk up a scene just by marching in full of pep and dr... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within Release date: 7/11/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The clumsy script spells out exposition in the most blunt terms and a brave attempt to express su... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crimson Rivers, The Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Kassovitz keeps the film zipping along with solid pacing and just enough action to clear the cred... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Baby Boy Release date: 6/27/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... an attempt to confront and challenge the legacy of cultural images based on killers, gang-ban... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Princess and the Warrior, The Release date: 6/22/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Full of sleek and often stunning images and thrilling effects set to the constant throbbing of an... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Atlantis: the Lost Empire Release date: 6/15/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Disney has cooked itself up a gosh-darned adventure epic. The problem is that its production comm... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anniversary Party, The Release date: 6/8/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Though the film is overlong and overly familiar, Leigh and Cumming ultimately bring a sincere sen... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Swordfish Release date: 6/8/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Sena is too wrapped up in making every explosion a work of art that he never seems to notice how ... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Angel Eyes Release date: 5/18/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) a leaden piece of touchy-feely melodrama about a pair of soul-scarred trauma survivors who fall i... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bread and Roses Release date: 5/11/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Loach is more committed to his message than to his characters. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Driven Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Has all the dramatic resonance of a video game. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: One Night At Mccool's Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A spirited, screwball crime-thriller with a sly heart. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Golden Bowl, The Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) ... take a richly ironic tale that should leave no character unsullied and transform it into a st... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day I Became A Woman, The Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Achieves its social commentary through passion and poetry. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amores Perros Release date: 3/30/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) An invigorating film, without a doubt. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Say It Isn't So Release date: 3/23/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A one-joke, one-note turkey that works over Sam Shepard's Fool for Love as a mistaken identity fa... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Company Man Release date: 3/9/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly s... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gleaners and I, The Release date: 3/7/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) You couldn�t ask more loving and sensitive illumination of an activity more often considered deme... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: See Spot Run Release date: 3/2/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) An unfunny farce with nary a clever line and not a single surprising sight gag. 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monkeybone Release date: 2/23/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saving Silverman Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Mood for Love Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) In the Mood for Love is a film sketched almost entirely in suggestion, at once Wong's most deftly... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) More than simply a portrait of early extreme sports, this peek into the 1970s skateboard revoluti... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Caveman's Valentine, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The film never quite shakes itself free of the tired clich� that street people are quirky, someti... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sexy Beast Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) [Kingsley's] brilliant performance becomes the dark soul of this noirish drama. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Series 7 Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A satisfyingly nasty piece of work so black and cruel it's often more sick than funny. 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beautiful Creatures Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) [It's] trying to add a feminist twist to the spate of Britain's bloody gangster thrillers and nev... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jump Tomorrow Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The feature debut of NYU graduate Joel Hopkins is an old-fashioned screwball road-trip romance wi... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Business of Strangers, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Plays largely like a performer's showpiece, with all the showboating and not so surprising charac... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Town is Quiet, The Release date: 1/17/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Quilted together with more passion than grace, this sprawling slice of life resembles one of John... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Antitrust Release date: 1/12/2001 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's phony and forced, but mostly it's just silly. 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Space Cowboys Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Eastwood ... segues nicely from the jogging pace of the training sessions to the ramped-up, adren... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unbreakable Release date: 11/22/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A potentially interesting idea deflated by the absurd proclamations of an arch screenplay and smo... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Men of Honor Release date: 11/10/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Swelling syrupy music and lingering shots draw out each and every triumph with numbing overkill. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Nicky Release date: 11/10/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Lacks clever banter and killer one liners and the visual humor is at best a string of cute set pi... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie's Angels Release date: 11/3/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The most expensive cheesecake movie ever made. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: What's Cooking? Release date: 10/27/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Each story climaxes in inevitable clashes and shrill shouting matches. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Too Much Sleep Release date: 10/6/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) There's something oddly fresh and naively chipper about writer/director David Maquiling's feature... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Urban Legends: Final Cut Release date: 9/22/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Release date: 9/15/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Not faithful enough to be an adaptation, too misguided to be considered an interpretation, and no... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Psycho Beach Party Release date: 9/8/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) A promising recipe for comedy that goes flat in the execution. 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nurse Betty Release date: 9/8/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) [LaBute] pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a swee... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Turn It Up Release date: 9/6/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Director/screenwriter Robert Adetuyi consciously apes John Woo in flashy but half-hearted action ... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Titan A.E. Release date: 6/16/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Packs spectacular imagery and high-energy action into a tight 90 minutes. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battlefield Earth Release date: 5/12/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking ra... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dream of Light Release date: 5/3/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The very act of creation speaks for itself in this amazing portrait of middle-age Spanish artist ... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The Release date: 4/28/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Full of leaden one-liners and dull puns. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Return to Me Release date: 4/7/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Bonnie Hunt's directorial debut is a flyweight heartwarmer brimming with winning characters. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Our Song Release date: 1/20/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) It's not clear who is telling whose story, but it's obvious this song belongs to them all. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: 13th Floor, The Release date: 12/31/1999 11:01:10 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Nitrate Online: (7/0) ... comes off as little more than a holo-deck adventure from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Ge... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Straight Story, The Release date: 10/15/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Nitrate Online: (7/0) For those willing to put themselves into the hands of Lynch, they�ll find a sweet, serious, and m... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matrix, The Release date: 3/31/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) All style and no substance. So what? 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Comedian Harmonists Release date: 3/12/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) ... a grandly realized and skillfully executed melodrama that seems all too familiar. 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Release date: 3/5/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) A welcome entry in the flailing neo-noir tradition. 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blast From the Past Release date: 2/12/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Nitrate Online: (7/0) (Brendan) Fraser is the only thing that kept me around, but good manners and na�ve charm will onl... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vampires Release date: 12/31/1998 11:01:47 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Nitrate Online: (7/0) Carpenter turns John Steakley�s novel "Vampire$" into a perverse remake of Howard Hawks� "Rio Bra... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mighty Joe Young Release date: 12/25/1998 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) ... a frustrating cartoon of a movie... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thin Red Line, The Release date: 12/25/1998 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) ... one of the richest and lushest films ever to emerge from Hollywood. 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Living Out Loud Release date: 10/30/1998 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) ... made up of magical moments of revelation that are the film's strength as well as its ultimate... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Days of Being Wild Release date: 3/13/1991 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection and emotional isolation is hypnotic. 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Life As A Dog Release date: 12/31/1987 11:01:38 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Turner Classic Movies Online: (7/0) One of the greatest and most sensitive films about children and the turbulence of childhood... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Trick Baby Release date: 12/31/1973 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (7/0) This confidence drama set on the streets of Philadelphia is charged with issues of race, racism, ... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Winter Soldier Release date: 12/31/1972 11:01:48 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) Searing and sharp as a knife... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Release date: 12/31/1972 11:01:29 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (7/0) The discreet charm of Luis Bu�uel is that he kind of likes the targets of his satirical volleys, ... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Planet of the Vampires Release date: 1/1/1965 Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (7/0) Though never particularly scary, Bava has a cool way with the alien eerieness of it all... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Viva Las Vegas Release date: 12/31/1964 11:01:47 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of MSN.com: (7/0) It's all color and glamor and sexy fun. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Konga Release date: 12/31/1961 11:01:36 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Turner Classic Movies Online: (7/0) Konga 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Touch of Evil Release date: 5/21/1958 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (7/0) ...Welles' baroque border-town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, an... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nights of Cabiria Release date: 1/1/1957 Review by Sean Axmaker of Nitrate Online: (7/0) Remains Fellini and Massina's greatest collaboration, and one of the great films of world cinema. 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Les Enfants Terribles Release date: 12/31/1950 11:01:37 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of MSN.com: (6/0) The narration-heavy chamber piece is not a natural fit for Melville, but he finds a visual grace ... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Twelve O'Clock High Release date: 12/31/1949 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean 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reference ...not so much extreme as twisted. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: 5x2 Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference These aren't puzzle pieces that fit snuggly together but fragments of character in revealing mome... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tenth District Court Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:45 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference [Raymond] Depardon puts a microscope on human behavior under pressure and comes out with both a s... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riri Yeye Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:43 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference ... captures the pain and desperation of adolescent powerlessness and humiliation with powerful i... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Woman Thou Art Loosed Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference For all the tough-minded talk and frank portraits of inner-city life... the film is not altogethe... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Die Mommie Die! Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference A one-note farce that struggles just to remain on key. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head of State Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference ... undeniably inconsistent, but when Rock hits he's dangerously funny. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Red Circle, The Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blade II Release date: 3/22/2002 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference Less directed than engineered... (t)his vampire story is as soulless as they get. 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: You Can Count on Me Release date: 11/10/2000 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference A drama that embraces the ambiguities and contradictions of family ties and human nature in all i... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blair Witch Project, The Release date: 7/30/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (6/1) No reference In it�s own modest, seemingly artless way, "The Blair Witch Project" is the most genuinely scary ... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Run Lola Run Release date: 6/18/1999 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (6/1) No reference Run Lola Run is a high-octane pulse-pounder driven by style, speed, deviously clever flourishes, ... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Affliction Release date: 12/31/1998 11:01:26 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (6/1) No reference Schrader has made his reputation revealing the scarred psyches of American men.... In "Affliction... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Central Station Release date: 11/20/1998 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Weekly: (6/1) No reference Central Station tugs the heartstrings with the best of them. 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Most Terrible Time in My Life, The Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:38 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of St@tic Multimedia: (3/4) No reference ... a lively, witty tribute to American private eye films with a serious core. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harukanaru Koshien Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:33 PM Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (3/4) No reference Part martial-arts revenge parody and part faux zombie spectacle on a field of nightmares, and dir... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Release date: 1/1/1966 Review by Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (4/3) No reference There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and th... 30 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style