Chuck Bowen

Select another critic »
Slant Magazine
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
view
per page
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Aquarius
    Aquarius is a critique of a daydream that has the imaginative daring to live that very dream anyway.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Harmonium
    Throughout Harmonium, writer-director Kôji Fukada works in a rapt and lucid hyper-textural style that suggests a merging of the sensibilities of Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujirô Ozu.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Marjorie Prime
    Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Halloween III: Season of the Witch
    That plot gives you an idea of how casually insane this movie is, but if you’re able to radically suspend your disbelief (the story is an illogical shambles), the film offers a number of modest pleasures.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    American Sniper
    Clint Eastwood startlingly grips the audience with his sense of hypnotic silence, which carries suggestions of what might be termed politically apolitical pragmatism.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Persona
    Despite its elaborate meta-game-playing, which has had a pronounced and unquantifiable influence on film culture, Persona remains intensely alive and intimate.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Rashomon
    The film is still one of the most glorious testaments to the frustrations and exhilarations of chasing an unvarnished truth.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Work
    In its visceral purity, Jairus McLeary's film drags male toxicity up into the light, offering it as a cure for itself.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Hotel by the River
    A story of a poet, Hotel by the River comes to resemble a poetry collection itself, abounding in emotional currents and grace notes that are bracingly allowed to hang, free of reductive explication.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Measure of a Man
    It exhibits the spry subtlety of Jean and Luc Dardenne's films, and, consequently, it's possible that it will be similarly mistaken for a work of “naturalism.”
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    On the Rocks
    There are few modern filmmakers who possess Sofia Coppola’s gift for capturing how our idealized, movie-fed ideas of “night life” reflect our longing for adventure as well as our loneliness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Apprentice
    Writer-director Boo Junfeng casually reinvigorates the prison drama, boiling its elements down to their primal essence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Uncertain Terms
    Appropriately, the images in the film, the most fluidly beautiful and resonant of Nathan Silver's career thus far, suggest flashes of memory relived from the vantage point of the future.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Nightmare
    As in Rodney Ascher's previous film, Room 237, the subject of obsession is complemented by a despairing attempt to process it, corral it, and somehow conquer it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Carmine Street Guitars
    The film celebrates the thingness of things, as well as the assuring clarity and lucidity that can arise from devotion to knowledge.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Happy Christmas
    Joe Swanberg's films have grown into a reliable relief from the competitive, dehumanizing freneticism of much of American culture, marked by an affirming and understated sense of decency.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Castle in the Sky
    Miyazaki’s concerns with the fragility and wonder of our less tangible surroundings haunt the picture without overpowering it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Good Morning
    This profound film reveals that nothing is below the purview of existential contemplation, even all matters of flatulence, and words as simple as “Good morning” are revealed to contain fathomless multitudes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Escapes
    A preoccupation with the totemic materiality of cinema runs through Michael Almereyda’s documentary.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Day After
    As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Fort Tilden
    It elegantly evolves from an absurdist comedy into a remarkably wounded and uprooted story of friends who're beginning to tire of their shared social cocoons.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Unicorn
    The documentary illuminates how art and artists live together in a symbiotic existence, each giving as well as taking.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Iris
    Albert Maysles's portrait of Iris Apfel gradually emerges with cathartic clarity without compromising her inherent mystery.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    The Cathedral
    The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    In the Same Breath
    In Wang Nanfu’s extraordinary documentary, contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run, the deadlier foes.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Deep Red
    A great horror film about a weak man who, gazing into a vibrant pool of freshly spilled blood, learns just how little he ultimately knows.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Downhill Racer
    Redford ultimately holds Downhill Racer together with the performance of his career.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    In a Valley of Violence
    The film communicates a sporadic sense of violation—of pastiche unpredictably giving way to a raw and primordially intimate emotional realm.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »