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 3.1 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
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    2nd Chance
    2nd Chance a terrific American tall tale as well as a cautionary tale and a ripping good yarn.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    My Big Night
    Álex de la Iglesia's film is an explosion of kitsch, an intensely formalized mixture of farce and tragedy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    A Gray State
    Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Far From Men
    The film often suggests a less defiant cover of The Defiant Ones, yet it's a must-see for Viggo Mortensen's characteristically wonderful performance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    In Order of Disappearance
    The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    As I Open My Eyes
    Leyla Bouzid successfully dramatizes how young people eroticize peril and risk due to a lack of experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Beast
    The narrative has a gambit that steers Beast into the terrain of a horror film, offsetting the sentimentality of the audience-flattering romance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Little Woods
    Nia DaCosta indulges one of rural quasi-thriller’s most tiresome gambits: humorlessness as a mark of high seriousness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Some Kind of Heaven
    The film is most tragic and humorous when hints of the outside world break through the suffocatingly cheerful façade of the Villages.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
    This is history that Americans should know, and the filmmaker approach Rumble as an introductory survey course.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Frantz
    The pacing is so humorless and funereal that it squelches the possibility of heat or conflict arising between the characters.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Fair Play
    Chloe Domont has conjoined a familiar fantasy of the powerful hedge fund magnate with brutally familiar quotidian details of a relationship that’s about to undergo a profound stress test.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Werewolf
    The film achieves a strange irony, as its formal abstractions serve to heighten our emotional connection to the characters.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Chuck Bowen
    Laurence Anyways
    It takes cojones for a filmmaker to chase Fassbinder's ghost, but it takes heart and talent to damn near catch up with it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Chuck Bowen
    Sollers Point
    Sollers Point is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    Steve James is clearly positioning the film as a rallying cry, and its weaknesses as art might bolster its strength as reformatory theater.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Spaceship Earth
    The film offers a refuge of idealism and intellectuality in an age that’s actively hostile to both of those qualities.
    • 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.
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