Chuck Bowen
Select another critic »For 785 reviews, this critic has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points lower than other critics.
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Chuck Bowen's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 62 | |
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Highest review score: | Basket Case | |
Lowest review score: | The Eyes of My Mother |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 493 out of 785
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Mixed: 145 out of 785
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Negative: 147 out of 785
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- Chuck Bowen
Prey proves to be an apropos title, as the film is cowed by John McTiernan’s original Predator.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 3, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
Though its lack of emotional escalation could be read as intentional, Vengeance is ground to a repetitive halt by B.J. Novak’s preaching.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
The accumulating effect of this airy and resonant film’s formal devices is that of a heartbroken artist learning to reengage with society.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 5, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
Mad God offers a dense cornucopia of genre-fueled outrageousness that’s gradually united by a concern with cycles of warfare.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 6, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
With his Deception, Arnaud Desplechin renders one of a great author’s slighter works titanic by comparison.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 4, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
After a dangerous, even personal, first half, Deep Water becomes crude in all the wrong ways.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 16, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
There’s a reason Sansho the Bailiff is often greeted by critics and audiences with something akin to rapture: It’s a work that divorces the existential riddles of faith from regimented dogma, favoring instead the practical challenges, contradictions, and ambiguities of life as it’s often lived.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 11, 2022
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- Chuck Bowen
As is typically the case with Joe Wright's films, one is left both exhilarated and exhausted, wishing that he had been more interested in the material at the center of his house of flourishes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 15, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Guillermo del Toro's remake of Nightmare Alley is less a living and breathing movie than a fossilized riff on the idea of a movie, particularly the American noir.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 6, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The Unforgivable is devoid of all textures and emotions that don’t readily affirm the film’s rigid worldview of redemption.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 24, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Zeros and Ones is the unwelcome spectacle of a bad boy attempting to apologize for his badness.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 17, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Underneath the film’s seeming casualness is an astute portrait of alcoholism, as well as a knowing glimpse of how micro tensions affect macro power plays, from pissing contests between men to sexual violations.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Jacob Gentry’s film punches through all the layers of homage to arrive at a place of true horror.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 21, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
At their best, writer-director Mario Furloni and Kate McLean evince a masterful grasp of storytelling that’s subtle and rich in innuendo.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The film is a ghost story as well as a story of transference, which Pedro Almodóvar understands to be one in the same.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 11, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The film achieves the nourishing simplicity of a fable, and its devotion to the quotidian elements of mythical small-town western life is nearly religious.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Robert Greene’s gaze is an attempt to accord his subjects the dignity of attention, utilizing cinema as a form of emotional due process.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
France indecisively utilizes a news personality’s crocodile tears as a symbol of the bad faith that pervades news discourse.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 11, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Wife of a Spy could use a streak of live-wire, huckster crudeness, a bit of melodrama delivered in an unselfconscious manner.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 11, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Paul Schrader’s film grows more heated and crazed as the chaos of the past bleeds into a repressed present.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 2, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The film hauntingly suggests that a man’s most rational move in a rigged society is to fade away into the ecosystem.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 23, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Like District 9, the film is a genre outing with big ideas that’s more committed to the power of arsenals and pyrotechnics.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
In Wang Nanfu’s extraordinary documentary, contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run, the deadlier foes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
At its best, Matt Yoka’s documentary vividly captures how personal demons shape creative output.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 5, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Rarely do the filmmakers show people mutually affecting one another in cycles of pain and control, rather than blaming phantom figures.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 3, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The film is an obsessive rumination on the little squabbles and inconveniences and pleasures that add up to the bulk of our lives.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 1, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
The idle one-thing-after-another-ness of Mandibles is evocative, disturbing, and moving.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 19, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Mama Weed is intended to wash over you, leaving good vibes in its wake, but it doesn’t challenge Isabelle Huppert or the audience.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 12, 2021
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- Chuck Bowen
Nicolas Cage, in full martyr mode here, seems to get off on the perversity of, well, caging his brand of operatic hysteria.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 12, 2021
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