Chuck Bowen

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For 830 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chuck Bowen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Basket Case
Lowest review score: 0 The Eyes of My Mother
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 531 out of 830
  2. Mixed: 150 out of 830
  3. Negative: 149 out of 830
830 movie reviews
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    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    The Haunting of Helena
    Yet another ghost story that insists there's nothing more chilling than a professional woman charged with raising a child on her own.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 0 Chuck Bowen
    Skin Trade
    There's no beauty to this film, little rhythm, none of the physical grace that action-film fans crave even if they don't know they do.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
    Christopher Felver is too reverent to properly convey the invigoratingly profane, angry messiness of the sense of community that Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his peers too briefly brought to life.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Nancy
    There's vanity in its boutique art-film brand of hopelessness, which derives from a fetishizing of "keeping it real."
    • 83 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Saint Maud
    Rose Glass utilizes a provocative scenario for a vague and deadly serious art exercise.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Chuck Bowen
    Last Will and Embezzlement
    The doc is so obnoxiously simplistic that you find yourself strangely unsympathetic to its objectively inarguable aim to promote greater standards of elder care.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    The Forger
    A sluggish, obvious fusion of a disease-of-the-week tearjerker with a comedic family crime romp that abounds in stiflingly over-emphasized Boston-crime-movie details.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Battle Royale
    Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Chuck Bowen
    Dying of the Light
    Paul Schrader's personality reveals itself in the film's joylessness, which is meaningless without the director's accompanying and occasionally poignant existentialism.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Miss Minoes
    After 30 long minutes, I stopped trying to make allowances for its varying ineptitudes, and Carice van Houten's work as the spunky human cat was the only reason I held out that long.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 0 Chuck Bowen
    The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    Tom Six has achieved the seemingly impossible: He's made a film even less watchable than "The Human Centipede II."
    • 76 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    A Monster Calls
    A Monster Calls is both governed and straitjacketed by director J.A. Bayona’s competent impersonality.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    News of the World
    The film sanctimoniously suggests that ignorance or distrust of the news is nothing new, but rather the bedrock of America’s formation.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Prey
    Prey proves to be an apropos title, as the film is cowed by John McTiernan’s original Predator.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    We Are What We Are
    Jim Mickle plays the scenario deadly straight and unintentionally exposes all of its attendant absurdities, leaving the cast stranded.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Primal
    The film too often suggests an Under Siege that’s been pointlessly larded with critters from Jumanji.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Paddleton
    The film largely plays its scenario with a straight and gooey face, coaxing its actors to indulge their worst tendencies.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Hold the Dark
    Hold the Dark's ludicrous seriousness comes to feel like a mask for what's essentially a genre story of murder and mayhem.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Sicilian Ghost Story
    The film is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    The Sentence
    Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film's favor and, largely, its disfavor.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Bravetown
    The filmmakers attempt to acknowledge the pain of warfare within the framework of a redemptive story that lends it an unforgivably patronizing sense of closure.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    A Vigilante
    It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film’s propensity toward florid excess.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Small Town Murder Songs
    So intent on being "art" that it's seemingly indifferent to providing simple niceties such as compelling performance, plot, and an atmosphere that isn't predictably oppressive.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Wish Me Away
    The film is ultimately too concerned with courting the singer's fans to deliver anything more than a theatrical release of a very special episode of VH1's Behind the Music.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Skinamarink
    Skinamarink is confidently made, and certain upside-down images are especially creepy, but its spell is broken by its sheer, ungodly slowness, which springs from a paucity of ideas.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
    Director Laura Archibald's approach is fatally safe, often turning poets into self-congratulatory windbags.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Hostiles
    Scott Cooper's film moves at a funereal pace, implicitly celebrating its sluggishness as a mark of integrity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Come Sunday
    In the film, Joshua Marston leaches the narrative of nearly all the social texture that infused and empowered “Heretics,” the 2005 episode of the This American Life podcast that inspired this biopic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Born to be Blue
    Robert Budreau strip-mines the life of an amazing musician for the purpose of mounting yet another comeback story.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Nobody
    The film offers chaos by the yard with no real stakes or emotional reverberations.
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