For 84 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Scott Bowles' Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 57
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 12
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 84
  2. Negative: 18 out of 84
84 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 36
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Alpha and Omega is one of those rarities in the modern era of Hollywood animation: bad.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Vaughn and James are likable enough, and they would have real chemistry in, say, an all-out comedy.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Scott Bowles 38
    What it became was bad. A movie that hopes to blend "Lethal Weapon" with "Gladiator" winds up not being a fraction of either.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Speaking of that middle-finger finale, there is one redeeming trait: At least it signals the end credits.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Scott Bowles 38
    There isn't much in the way of plot to get in the way of Sandler's world: There's poo, ripped pants and hot girls falling for fat guys.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Conan the Barbarian lives by a pretty simple ethos: He lives, he loves, he slays. What he doesn't do, alas, is act.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Scott Bowles 38
    There's nothing wrong in the setup: It worked fine in films like "Adventures in Babysitting" and "Uncle Buck." But director David Gordon Green populates the movie with so many soap opera asides it's hard to keep count.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Scott Bowles 38
    A putrid film that comes dead-weighted with hammy one-liners and a plot so silly it borders on comedy?
    • Metascore: 31
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Filmmakers must have been tripping pretty badly when they made High School, a flub that's about as lucid as a stoner at a spelling bee.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Scott Bowles 38
    Revolution tries a few plot moves, but, narratively, it has two left feet.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Scott Bowles 38
    It's been a long time since a movie wasted this much talent.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Scott Bowles 38
    RZA's directorial debut is heavy on bloody kung fu action...and light on just about everything else.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Scott Bowles 38
    The movie spends too much time wedging the couple into a May-December moment, where Crystal cracks nostalgic about the good old days. It's sweet, but it grows old.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Scott Bowles 38
    It's been a long time since a movie wasted as much talent as Stand Up Guys, a film that aims to be a geezer "Goodfellas" but whose execution is a misfire.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Scott Bowles 25
    What snookered Slater (not to mention Donald Sutherland) into this film is a wonder, because there's not a genuine bone in it. Think the Bourne franchise meets the Bond franchise, without the wit or action.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Scott Bowles 25
    The latest undead-soldier story carries on the franchise tradition of graphic violence and bad acting.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Scott Bowles 25
    Alas, shell casings, switchblades and severed limbs are all that's offered in this vile film, whose sole redeeming quality is that it ends. Eventually.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Scott Bowles 12
    A comedy that has one good joke, four strange cameos and a spirit so juvenile kids may wonder what Sandler's deal is.