Scott Bowles

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For 128 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Scott Bowles' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 Waiting for 'Superman'
Lowest review score: 12 Jack and Jill
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 128
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 128
  3. Negative: 33 out of 128
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Scott Bowles
    Marley
    Sprinkled with riffs, concert footage and home videos, the family-authorized documentary does what the artist usually did: When in doubt, return to the beat.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Side by Side
    Alas, if you're someone who enjoys movies as, say, a two-hour escape, you may find this documentary on the death of film at digital's hands a bit too inside baseball.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    The Hot Flashes
    This comedy deserves credit for taking a decided viewpoint — and delivering a heartfelt if occasionally misguided message.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Scott Bowles
    Waiting for 'Superman'
    It's an apt title. As divisive as the issue has become, it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children, waiting on a superhero who isn't going to come.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Scott Bowles
    Let Me In
    Let Me In is going to lure and please fans of the original; like the first, the remake is graphically violent but as tense as good horror gets.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Obvious Child
    The problem is the movie's comedians, who are, to the last, unfunny.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    A Dangerous Method
    A Dangerous Method has plenty to say about sex, but it lacks much fire for it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    Frank
    A clunky-if-earnest comedy about a literal band of misfits led by a singer who never takes off his mascot-size headgear. Ever.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Side Effects
    Like a lot of meds, it loses its effectiveness over time, and you'll build a resistance to Effects eventually, particularly when it dissolves into a standard crime flick.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Winnie the Pooh
    Pooh succeeds by embracing much of what modern films (including Potter's) have largely forgotten: old-fashioned movie pleasures.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Arbitrage
    Despite an abrupt ending and the worst title of the year, Arbitrage manages to leverage real tension from its veteran stars in one of Hollywood's first pedigreed films of the fall.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Scott Bowles
    The Raid: Redemption
    Unapologetically brutal and unencumbered by much plot, Raid is the year's most turbo-charged film.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    The Grandmaster
    An historical opus that is equal parts ballet and biography, though the second component pales in comparison with the first.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Rage
    A picture that isn't as terrible as its title suggests now as deep as its story aspires to be.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Cold in July
    July is solid throwback storytelling, a crime yarn that may not blow you away but can cut to the bone.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Leave it to a wimpy kid to show Hollywood how to make a family movie with live people in it.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    The Signal
    Had Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch made a movie together, it might have looked something like The Signal.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Fed Up
    And that's Fed Up's ultimate, if not fatal, weakness: The movie seems to acquit consumers of any culpability in our health crisis.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Never Let Me Go
    Just as its characters need a reason to live, Go needs a reason for audiences to watch. Neither find much satisfaction.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Unstoppable
    Scott paces the film like its mechanized star: deliberately and, ultimately, with enough speed to keep its passengers satisfied.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Scott Bowles
    Palo Alto
    Palo Alto marks one of those rare films that is so accurate in its portrayal of characters that the movie suffers for it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Arthur Christmas
    Crisply shot and voiced by a legion of Brits, the animated Arthur seems aimed at the Scrooge and caroler in all of us.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    The Company Men
    It's simple stuff, but the movie's heart is in the right place.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    The Hunger Games
    The action is brisk, the acting is solid, and barring an unlikely failure at the box office, a franchise is born. Let the games begin.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Scott Bowles
    You're Next
    A film of repetition, a bloody dance consisting of three steps: stab, scream, repeat.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Scott Bowles
    Chef
    A slow-cooked film that's one of the most heartwarming of the young year.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Inequality for All
    While not as revelatory as Al Gore's 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, Inequality makes a resounding case that the middle class is facing its own planetary crisis: becoming an endangered species.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    Hanna
    One of the coldest action films in years and an odd showcase for Saoirse Ronan, a deft actress who is one of the few youngsters capable of pulling off action with acting.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Scott Bowles
    Kung Fu Panda 2
    Black is clearly suited for the role of a modern-day Inspector Clouseau, a hero clown who can't help but save the day.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Scott Bowles
    G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    A more sure-footed shoot-'em-up that finds some heart, wit and perhaps enough momentum to spawn a formidable action franchise.
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