Scott Bowles, USA Today
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For 98 reviews, this critic has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics.
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Scott Bowles' Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 98
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Mixed: 27 out of 98
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Negative: 22 out of 98
98
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- Scott Bowles
It's an apt title. As divisive as the issue has become, it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children, waiting on a superhero who isn't going to come. -
- Scott Bowles
Let Me In is going to lure and please fans of the original; like the first, the remake is graphically violent but as tense as good horror gets. -
- Scott Bowles
Menacing and meditative, Hallows is arguably the best installment of the planned eight-film franchise, though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost.- Posted Dec 8, 2010
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- Scott Bowles
Unapologetically brutal and unencumbered by much plot, Raid is the year's most turbo-charged film.- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
Sprinkled with riffs, concert footage and home videos, the family-authorized documentary does what the artist usually did: When in doubt, return to the beat.- Posted Apr 22, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
Inspired and inspiring, this documentary about 7- and 8-year-olds competing for the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship is too fawning to be consistently gifted, but it manages to be occasionally, perhaps accidentally, profound.- Posted Sep 19, 2013
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- Scott Bowles
The film is surprisingly deft and entertains at both the adult and juvenile levels. If something in Guardians catches your eye, trust your gizzard. -
- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
Scott paces the film like its mechanized star: deliberately and, ultimately, with enough speed to keep its passengers satisfied.- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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- Scott Bowles
Black is clearly suited for the role of a modern-day Inspector Clouseau, a hero clown who can't help but save the day.- Posted May 26, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
It is in many respects the best installment of the franchise as its stars go from sullen kids to sullen young adults, where their expressions look more natural.- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
The action is brisk, the acting is solid, and barring an unlikely failure at the box office, a franchise is born. Let the games begin.- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
Pooh succeeds by embracing much of what modern films (including Potter's) have largely forgotten: old-fashioned movie pleasures.- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
Fright is way too quick on its feet to be slowed by clichés. David Tennant seizes McDowall's role as Peter Vincent, now a Criss Angel-style clown vampire slayer. Christopher Mintz-Plasse was born to play a high school nerd.- Posted Aug 18, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
Crisply shot and voiced by a legion of Brits, the animated Arthur seems aimed at the Scrooge and caroler in all of us.- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
Even by today's standards, some scenes are jaw-dropping in their bloodshed. To that end, Lurie accomplishes some of what Peckinpah evoked 40 years ago.- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
An historical opus that is equal parts ballet and biography, though the second component pales in comparison with the first.- Posted Aug 22, 2013
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- Scott Bowles
It's over-the-top stuff, to be sure. But Bosses never crosses that line into the macabre.- Posted Jul 7, 2011
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- Posted Mar 15, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
As he did in "Stranger Than Fiction," Ferrell displays surprising range when he ratchets down the volume.- Posted May 12, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
Sarah's Key is, for the most part, an exercise in reserve. We never see Hitler, never enter battle. Paquet-Brenner (Pretty Things, Walled In), rightly tells his Holocaust story as it now lives: through survivors and descendants.- Posted Jul 21, 2011
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- Scott Bowles
The side story about Muslim extremists is a little ham-handed for a film that otherwise exercises such restraint.- Posted Mar 15, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
Visually stunning and narratively stunted, this IMAX documentary is the family version of 2006's "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming.- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
Despite an abrupt ending and the worst title of the year, Arbitrage manages to leverage real tension from its veteran stars in one of Hollywood's first pedigreed films of the fall.- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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- Scott Bowles
It's no "Taxi Driver" or even "Open Water," but Route has enough attractions to warrant the trip.- Posted Aug 22, 2013
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- Scott Bowles
While not as revelatory as Al Gore's 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, Inequality makes a resounding case that the middle class is facing its own planetary crisis: becoming an endangered species.- Posted Sep 30, 2013
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- Scott Bowles
He hasn't mastered the craft yet, but M. Night Shyamalan may be on to something with this action-movie thing. -
- Scott Bowles
There are plenty of strong performances, and LaBeouf does a nice job of becoming the tough-skinned pragmatist. Mulligan is as earnest as ever, and Susan Sarandon and, particularly, Frank Langella make strong cameos. -
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Jack Goes Boating won't knock you over, but it lulls you with its slow-warming heart. -
- Scott Bowles
Brisk, brutal and unconcerned with collateral damage, The Mechanic doesn't pave much of anything new in the assassin-for-hire genre. But when it kills, it does so with style.- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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