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
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    On the Count of Three
    Jerrod Carmichael is a volatile director and an electric actor, but Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch’s screenplay routinely force the characters into formulaic, trivializing scenarios.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    What Keeps You Alive
    If Hannah Emily Anderson's performance was as fully imagined as Brittany Allen's, then What Keeps You Alive might have attained the emotional dimensions of a robust psychodrama.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Asthma
    Asthma inevitably becomes another film about a man airing out his traumas and hitting all the requisite marks on his path to healing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Operation Avalanche
    The film attains a chilly existential quality as Matt Johnson's character discerns the weight of his actions.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Moonwalkers
    The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts, but the various detours coalesce into an amusing wannabe-cult curio.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Custody
    Custody is concerned with the failure of process to discern human need and perversion, and Xavier Legrand rather ironically follows in the footsteps of bureaucracy by reducing people to statistics.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Into the Inferno
    The busy-ness of its conceit grounds Werner Herzog in a documentary procedural form that's surprisingly conventional by his standards.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
    The Resident Evil films are so unconcerned with traditional character and narrative that they suggest either abstract art or the fevered brainstorming of a child at play.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Wrestle
    The documentary shines a piercing light on the sorts of people that our governments would too often rather forget.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Chef Flynn
    At times, Cameron Yates appears to be too protective of his subjects, which somewhat neuters the drama of the narrative.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Inheritance
    Simon Pegg occasionally fulfills the nightmarish potential of the film’s fairy-tale premise.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Devil and Father Amorth
    The Devil and Father Amorth is a flimsy stunt, but in his blunt, slapdash way, William Friedkin locates the intersection existing between religion and pop culture—a fusion that insidiously steers political currents.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    A Girl Missing
    Kôji Fukada adores stray textures that stick in the proverbial throat and free-associatively affirm his characters’ rootlessness.
    • 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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Flowers
    Everyone heals, or doesn't heal, on cue, and the initial pathos of the narrative is dulled by the architecture of its through lines.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Dog
    It's informed with a subtle but disquieting subtext that insists on the pitfalls of allowing ideology to steer you away from common sense.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Piercing
    If the film is mildly disappointing, it’s because it doesn’t go far enough. It confidently prepares us for a frenzy that never quite materializes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Official Secrets
    Gavin Hood wrings suspense out of the parsing of the nuances of evidence and the tapping of mysterious contacts.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    French Exit
    In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    M.F.A.
    Natalia Leite's ambition and accompanying uncertainty give the film its unruly and resonant energy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Koko-di Koko-da
    Nothing hinders surrealism more than the sense that its creators are actively working for it, though Koko-di Koko-da is nonetheless difficult to dismiss.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Mama Weed
    Mama Weed is intended to wash over you, leaving good vibes in its wake, but it doesn’t challenge Isabelle Huppert or the audience.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    The Past
    Farhadi navigates his complicated narrative thicket with an apparent ease that confirms yet again that he's an amazing talent, but here he isn't able to blend the brushstrokes as he has in prior films.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Fences
    Danzel Washington honors the manna of the play's being: the micro of romantic longing, self-loathing, and nostalgia.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Snowpiercer
    The film preaches resolutely to the choir, and cinephiles in sync with the film's politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    It infuses an outdoorsy survival tale and a coming-of-age story of friendship with Taika Waititi's penchant for distaff flakiness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Alyce Kills
    The film is an ultra-violent parody of unearned self-entitlement, of people who feel tricked into a lifestyle they refuse to challenge for the comforts it still offers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
    The documentary is enjoyable, but one suspects that its subject may have found it soft.
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