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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    The Final Year
    For liberals, The Final Year might become a kind of metaphorical marriage video that’s watched by divorcees who yearn of that initial hint of paradise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Oxygen
    At its best, Oxygen successfully approximates the feel of an escape room.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Final Member
    A potential barroom joke blossoms into a surprisingly poignant portrait of three aging men wrestling with how to shed their mortal coil.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Dealt
    Richard Turner is a charismatic subject who demands more than a conventionally entertaining documentary.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Chuck Bowen
    Drug War
    The film is a singularly huge, relentless, all-encompassing set piece that mutates and spasms with terrifying lack of foresight. It's all business, business, business.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    The Trip to Spain
    The premise of Michael Winterbottom's series has devolved from moderately diverting to actively stifling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    The Phenom
    Noah Buschel shows that formula can be repurposed to serve empathetic ends without losing its self-actualizing appeal.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Cop Car
    The narrative derives much of its tension from the unsentimental ambivalence Jon Watts displays toward the story's two pre-teen boys.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Werewolves Within
    The film becomes unexpectedly, effectively violent just when you’ve written it off as a glorified SNL sketch.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    The Lost Arcade
    The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Clara's Ghost
    Bridey Elliott avoids the smug pitfalls of narratives concerned with privileged people drinking themselves into a stupor.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Sound of Silence
    A wonderful high concept is compromised for another story of lonely people learning to connect.
    • 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
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Bronx Gothic
    By design, the film is intensely preachy. And this preachiness serves a therapeutic purpose, offering jolting possibilities for empathy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Cyrano
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Landline
    Heroin is to Landline what abortion is to Robespierre's Obvious Child: a dangerous little variable planted to strategically unsettle the pervading cutesiness.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Parkland
    The Peter Landesman film's overt politics are minimal, aside from defaulting to the myth of John F. Kennedy as a martyr for...something.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Rolling Thunder
    Essentially a liberal vigilante film that’s rife with all the contradictions that description implies, Rolling Thunder has a pared, weirdly principled grace that still packs a punch.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.
    • 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
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    The Good Dinosaur
    The main character is a collection of insecurities that have been calculatedly assembled so as to teach children the usual lessons about bravery, loyalty, and self-sufficiency.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    The Border
    The Border is marvelously detailed. The script, by Deric Washburn, Walon Green, David Freeman, is peppered with lively obscenities and slights that communicate the debauched cynicism of this world.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Tommaso
    Abel Ferrara’s film is about that precise feeling of living with an itch unscratched.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Young Ahmed
    The Dardennes maintain a distance from Ahmed as a way of celebrating their refusal to reduce him to any easy psychological bullet points.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Husbands
    One of Cassavetes’s greatest and most daring films.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Blood Father
    The film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
    This is a confident work that smashingly updates the Southern gothic for contemporary generations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Missouri Breaks
    A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
    The film’s early scenes turn the stuff of paying bills and managing kids into manna for an unsettlingly intimate domestic thriller.
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