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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    • 87 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Life Itself
    There's a sense throughout of Steve James rushing and dutifully covering all his bases to evade accusations of creating a puff piece.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Whirlybird
    At its best, Matt Yoka’s documentary vividly captures how personal demons shape creative output.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Blaze
    With Blaze, a fractured story of country music singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, director Ethan Hawke admirably battles the clichés of the musical biopic.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Backcountry
    After a surprising development, the film grows slack and sentimental, reverting to the survival-movie platitude about hardship making you a better human.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    I Care a Lot
    Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Theo Who Lived
    Theo Who Lived is fascinating, and Theo Padnos is an exacting storyteller, but the film pushes through one story point to the next, occasionally prizing velocity over texture.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    The documentary is briskly paced, often compelling, but a little soft, as it succumbs to hero worship.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Escape from Tomorrow
    The film is just a stunt or, more specifically, a calling card, but that might be enough for anyone who's ever wanted to kick Mickey Mouse square in his padded, pious balls.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Biggest Little Farm
    The film is often quite moving in spite of its evasions, suggesting a real-life Charlotte’s Web, but one wonders what an artist with a bit more distance might’ve made of such rich material.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Okja
    In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Prevenge
    Alice Lowe evinces a knack for locating society’s most awkward pressure points, and a willingness to punch them.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Eden
    The "male gaze" that often despicably and hypocritically surfaces in these kinds of films is pointedly absent throughout.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Partisan
    Ariel Kleiman fashions an erotic atmosphere of dusty sensuality that complicates our judgement of this world, but he takes shortcuts.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
    The film is beautiful and occasionally quite moving, but its subject matter deserves more than art-house irresolution.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Trip to Italy
    Michael Winterbottom and his gifted actors still haven't quite solved the riddle of portraying social disconnection in a manner that's anything other than sporadically involving.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Filmworker
    Tony Zierra interviews Leon Vitali at length, and he’s a commanding camera object with an obvious wellspring of longing and pain.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Deathgasm
    Director Jason Lei Howden has a flair for punchlines that are funny for reasons that are essentially impossible to describe.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Into the Grizzly Maze
    David Hackl often shoots his bear in fashions that accent its lumbering, powerful grace, even during its death rattle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Lost in Paris
    Lost in Paris abounds in whimsy that, for the most part, isn't irritatingly precious—a feat that's harder to pull off than it appears.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Jimmy's Hall
    Ken Loach's staging is so calm and sober that it turns his story into an expertly photographed yet weirdly remote rebellion tale.
    • 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.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Fall of the American Empire
    Despite a few undeniably intense and lurid moments, the film lacks the pulsating fury of a significant genre work.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Diary of a Chambermaid
    The lack of ambiguity reflects Benoît Jacquot's treatment of the text, which is devoid of either formal obsessiveness or a contemporary hook.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Stung
    The filmmakers maintain a tone that's mostly ideal for the contemporary equivalent of a drive-in movie: of reverent, parodic irreverence.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    A Rainy Day in New York
    The film’s skittishness is particularly maddening considering that Woody Allen has nothing to artistically to prove.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Freeland
    At their best, writer-director Mario Furloni and Kate McLean evince a masterful grasp of storytelling that’s subtle and rich in innuendo.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Love We Make
    The Love We Make is mostly about placing viewers in an icon's shoes as he makes a rehabilitative gesture toward a city with which he's grown considerable roots.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Shooting the Mafia
    Kim Longinotto is so eager to celebrate her hero that she also glides past thornier portions of Letizia Battaglia’s life.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Birth of the Living Dead
    The film is unavoidably slight, but there's a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration.
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