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 3.2 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
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    The film is content as it is to run clever one-liners and 19th-century pop-cultural references into the same comedic whirlpool.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Family Portrait in Black and White
    Julia Ivanova, a Canadian filmmaker, doesn't judge Olga; she refuses to see her through the eyes of a presumably better-off first-world citizen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Milford Graves Full Mantis
    Jake Meginsky's documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
    Beautiful loneliness, as the film suggestively reveals, is a texture that Frank knows all too well.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Grandmaster
    The film, more likely to invite comparisons to the writings of Marcel Proust than the previous Ip Man films, is a gorgeous folly that never entirely emerges from its creator's head.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    Sword of Destiny has an appealingly inventive, unruly genre party streak running down its figurative back.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Sweet Virginia
    Sweet Virginia doesn’t have much of a point, as its characters are reductive variables in an inevitable equation of carnage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Results
    Andrew Bujalski seizes upon physical training as a resonant metaphor for the work and risk that are inherent in cultivating significant interpersonal connections.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Witching and Bitching
    Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    By the Time It Gets Dark
    Anocha Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    In This Corner of the World
    Sunao Katabuchi displays a vivid, shattering awareness of how domestic routines can spiritually ground one during a time of demoralizing chaos.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    The Blue Room
    The film abounds in guilt and grief, reveling in a general sense of hopelessly broken social connection.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Almost Holy
    Steve Hoover's documentary affords one an unusually intimate glance at the collapsed infrastructure of the former Soviet Union.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    CODA
    The film is at its most moving in those rare moments when it’s capturing the nourishing bonding ritual among a deaf family.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Insult
    Ziad Doueiri's film is well acted and staged with periodic liveliness, but its earnestness grows wearying.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Where Is Kyra?
    Terror gradually leaks into the narrative, transforming Where Is Kyra? into a haunting non-traditional thriller.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Zodiac Killer Project
    Zodiac Killer Project is a wicked embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the media itself being the message.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Tale of Tales
    Matteo Garrone returns the fairy tale to its roots in cautionary horror grounded in deep, contradictory, neurotic relationships with gender and patriarchy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos's film is a profoundly violent and weirdly moving poem of male alienation.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Substance
    The humanity of Demi Moore’s performance, the greatest of her career, gives Coralie Fargeat’s boldest ideas an emotional backbeat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Bone Tomahawk
    One wishes that S. Craig Zahler had more explicitly faced the cultural demons lingering within his premise, attempting to exorcise them.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh’s signature formal gamesmanship enlivens what could have been a stodgy scenario.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    That Guy Dick Miller
    A fawning tribute to the cult legend, enriched by a subtle current of sadness that prevents the documentary from turning into a glorified DVD supplement.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Exhibition
    There's considerable talent on display in Exhibition, but it's the kind of thing people mean when they use the term "art film" as a pejorative.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Weathering with You
    Contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed the film’s increasingly mawkish tendencies.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    First They Killed My Father
    First They Killed My Father is less interested in global politics than in offering an intensely experiential tapestry of war and invasion as witnessed by a child.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    In Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, holiday tropes born of life and movies alike are exaggerated, parodied, celebrated, and compressed to suggest how our idea of Christmas is a river of memories real and imagined.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Outwaters
    With The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the free-associative barbarity of A Page of Madness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Suburban Birds
    The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides.
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