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Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Amélie (2001) 90% EDIT “Through all our isolation and division, we are united by love. If it takes an uplifting fantasy to state this idea, however whimsically and indirectly, then so much the better. Of course it's not real... What good's a fairy tale without a moral, anyway?” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Feb 13, 2024 Full Review The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015) EDIT “It's both engaging and enraging, and it feels important.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) May 8, 2020 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% EDIT “The script, partially written by the team responsible for Election, is lean, tidy, and best of all, negligible--these screenwriters know better than to let the plot obscure the action, and the result is probably the best of the three Jurassic Park films.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jun 27, 2019 Full Review Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 97% EDIT “But the big turn in Neighbor is the revelation that Rogers really was that gentle, that kind, that deeply, utterly good.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jun 6, 2018 Full Review First Reformed (2017) 94% EDIT “Commandingly demonstrates that [Paul] Schrader is still worth listening to.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) May 22, 2018 Full Review Three Identical Strangers (2018) 96% EDIT “What starts off looking like a standard issue Netflix doc about a zany family... rapidly becomes one of the most complex, even shocking adoption stories you'll ever hear.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) May 22, 2018 Full Review Basket Case (1982) 78% EDIT “Everything about the film is gratuitous, and, despite its essential humorlessness, it's almost hilarious in a sidelong sort of way.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) May 4, 2018 Full Review The Death of Stalin (2017) 94% EDIT “This film's grave, absurd, brilliant, and brutal historical context has a way of making the future look, if not hopeful, then at least familiar.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) May 4, 2018 Full Review Where Is Kyra? (2017) 83% EDIT “Where Is Kyra? is an unorthodox comeback vehicle for Pfeiffer-the film is truly a total bummer, the rare example of cinema that is both beautifully made and 100 percent joyless. But it remains noteworthy, and maybe even important...” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Apr 25, 2018 Full Review I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 99% EDIT “An ingeniously constructed documentary about one of the 20th century's greatest, and more conflicted, artist/polemicists.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Feb 25, 2018 Full Review Phantom Thread (2017) 91% EDIT “Designed with the elegance of a Max Ophüls film, written to combine the social observation of Henry James and the foreboding of Alfred Hitchcock, and scored with a narcotic elegance by Jonny Greenwood.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jan 18, 2018 Full Review Call Me by Your Name (2017) 95% EDIT “[There is] a hole at the center of what would otherwise be-and still, semi-miraculously, is-a very involving, melancholy film.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 21, 2017 Full Review Scrooged (1988) 71% EDIT “Still, Murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you'd expect, and the 1988 version of Hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the CGI purgatory we live in today.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 15, 2017 Full Review It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 94% EDIT “Paralyzing joys are the very heart of George Bailey's dilemma; they are, to borrow words from George's father, "deep in the race."” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 15, 2017 Full Review Ethel & Ernest (2016) 97% EDIT “... this adaptation of Raymond Briggs's graphic memoir of his parents' lives is both humble and profound, with gorgeous renderings of Briggs's justly famous lines.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 7, 2017 Full Review Wonder Wheel (2017) 31% EDIT “I can't think of another celebrated director whose dialogue sounds so written, whose class and dramatic conceits betray such total sequestration from any observable world, whose human observations so utterly fail to bear scrutiny off the screen.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 6, 2017 Full Review The Disaster Artist (2017) 90% EDIT “It's also a reminder that Franco is a smart and funny performer with perverse comedic instincts that pay off constantly.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Dec 1, 2017 Full Review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 90% EDIT “This strikes me as an especially Irish kind of cosmology-one that arose naturally in a country divided by religion and empire for hundreds of years.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Lady Bird (2017) 99% EDIT “[Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf's] verbal battles are hilarious, their stalemates wrenching, their tender moments intoxicating.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Nov 9, 2017 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% EDIT “Ultimately, the chief difference between this film and its two predecessors is the presence of resolution. The story ends, just like we all knew it would. And there's something inherently disappointing about that.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Mean Creek (2004) 88% EDIT “Mean Creek is a strong premise gone horribly awry.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review The Brown Bunny (2003) 48% EDIT “You certainly don't want to spend 90 minutes watching Vincent Gallo drive, shower, brood, and weep, which is almost all this movie is.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Tarnation (2003) 93% EDIT “Tarnation is one of the most powerfully emotional movies I've ever seen.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Palindromes (2004) 43% EDIT “Nothing about Palindromes is easy to resolve. This should come as great news for fans of Todd Solondz.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Beyond the Sea (2004) 43% EDIT “Beyond the Sea ranks among the worst films of its sub-subgenre because its director/star only seems interested in making the film to exploit his remarkable physical resemblance to the title character.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review
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