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
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    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    King Georges
    Erika Frankel’s documentary is finally revealed to be a story of prolonged adjustment to retirement, and a poignant illustration of sublimated redemption.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Cabin Fever
    Travis Zariwny detachedly regards the material as shtick to be waded through with quotation marks.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Standoff
    Standoff isn’t quite inspired, but it coasts on unexpected modesty of professionalism.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Southbound
    Southbound is yet another contemporary horror film that belongs to seemingly every era but its own.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Rams
    Every moment in writer-director Grímur Hákonarson's strange and wonderful film is imbued with mystery and revealing dignity.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Everybody's Fine
    It joins its American cousin in the scrapheap of family dramedies that no one watches, unless by default out of boredom on TBS or TNT.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Synchronicity
    Writer-director Jacob Gentry's film has the emotional fatuousness of uncertain softcore erotica.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Mojave
    With the film, director William Monahan offers audiences a bundle of fetishes dressed up as an existentialist thriller about the class system.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Intruders
    The film ultimately boils down to people bludgeoning one another in unimaginative close-ups.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Sweaty Betty
    Sweaty Betty is a reminder that poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, and that art ultimately dictates its own terms.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Diablo
    It inelegantly attempts to infuse a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming-home odyssey.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Anomalisa
    The film's highpoint is one of the most remarkably moving sex scenes in all of American cinema, and the irony of it involving bland puppets is hardly lost on Kaufman and Johnson.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Noma: My Perfect Storm
    Too much of Noma is composed of gorgeous pillow shots, which grow static and fussy, appearing to exist almost apart from the subject matter.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Body
    The filmmakers exhibit no interest in watching the story's central wolves wiggle out of the trap they've potentially set for themselves.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Chuck Bowen
    Every Thing Will Be Fine
    The premise, of a terrible event unleavened by the easy out of someone being at fault, should be prime fodder for Wim Wenders's brand of poetic regret.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Chuck Bowen
    Dementia
    The film doesn't quite earn Jones's performance, but it engenders considerable goodwill for allowing him to give it.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Janis: Little Girl Blue
    It grounds us so effectively in Joplin's emotional realm as to partially rekindle the social transcendence that her voice must have represented for its owner.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    #Horror
    A blunt satire of the dehumanization inherent in social media that also gets off on said detachment.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Criminal Activities
    The actors have the showmanship to chew the lurid, shopworn material up to bits, savoring it like a Royale with cheese.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Funny Bunny
    Alison Bagnall and her talented leads appear to effortlessly achieve a tone that's tricky to sustain, one that abounds equally in absurdism and empathy.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Chuck Bowen
    Heist
    Heist is competently staged, but Scott Mann maintains audience interest with the preponderance of dissonant absurdities.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Chuck Bowen
    Barista
    It captures the frustration and the longing of forever wanting more and better at the expense of casualness of being.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Chuck Bowen
    Wrecker
    Time and again, the filmmaker cuts the money shot meant to theoretically cap a sequence.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 12 Chuck Bowen
    Jason and Shirley
    Stephen Winter's film doesn't earn the gall it evinces by pissing on Shirley Clarke's masterpiece.
    • 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.
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