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Critics / Thom Fowler
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THOM FOWLER

Agrees with the Tomatometer 65% of the time.

Biography: critic, journalist, novelist, bon-vivant, anarchist, revolutionary, ***. I've sold vintage clothes, taught English in high schools, wrote desperate poetry in a wine drenched haze, had my heart broken and repaired, hiked along majestic ridges, skated on the edge of sanity and foolishly cracked open the bitter sweet fruit of life.
Favorites: Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure Xanadu

Publications: eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Bitchslap

Total Reviews: 106
Total QuickRatings: 45

Location: San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Mars

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Fresh
3/5

Fresh
85%

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

" Darryl Hannah practically steals the movie." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Apr 16, 2004

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
65%

The Last Days of Disco (1998)

" The laconic end to Stillman's existential "trilogy" of films about the young urban bourgeoisie" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Nov 17, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
44%

Luther (2003)

" An inspiring, tightly focused, well-crafted film that tastefully reigns itself in from becoming an epic but pulls back too far on some subplots that could have been more developed." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Sep 26, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
94%

Dirty Pretty Things (2003)

" Stephen Frears turns nuanced, understated performances into an intensely pitched drama." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Jul 28, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
62%

Camp (2003)

" The combination of sap, echoes of truth, and lots of razzle-dazzle, song-and-dance is lethal." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Jul 25, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
85%

Swimming Pool (2003)

" Rampling and Sagnier drive a fiercely provocative film" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Jun 20, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
46%

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

" Homo-erotic, swashbuckling, and magically adventurous" — eFilmCritic.com

Posted Jun 20, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
40%

The Hard Word (2003)

" “Honor among thieves” is the film’s unspoken catchphrase and ideas like good and bad and right and wrong side of the law are less important than the bonds of love and friendship." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Jun 11, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
49%

The Heart of Me (2003)

" Hum-drum melodrama with fabulous period details" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted Jun 7, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
77%

Gladiator (2000)

" Gladiator is a good, predictable and exciting adventure epic with all the classic elements of what drives a man in a macho, patriarchal culture." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
77%

Get Real (1999)

" An entertaining, saccharine sweet, English gay coming-out story told with depth and clarity." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
17%

Flowers in the Attic (1987)

" Aryan incestoids escape torture and neglect through murder and revenge and discover that keeping it in the family really is the best policy." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Rotten
44%

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

" Real time immersive reality may become more than just science fiction if processing speed and memory continues to get cheaper and more powerful and we are able to create images that look and move as realistically as this film." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
53%

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

" Representative of the universal childhood, but also the historical childhood of western culture before the adult age of industry, civil engineering and planned growth where everything is now a chart or a graph or a grid or an algorithm and there certainly" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
22%

Faces of Death (1974)

" A compendium of grotesque and bizzare film clips documenting different aspects of ... Death. You'll be shocked, horrifed and amazed that any ever captured someof this footage or that any else sought it out and collected it." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
85%

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)

" Never do the film makers attempt to ridicule Tammy Faye or make this documentary one big winky-winky joke." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

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Rotten
42%

Evolution (2001)

" Creative special affects are the highlight of this B-Grade progeny of GHOSTBUSTERS." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
54%

Everybody's Famous (2001)

" Everybody's Famous says that fame is a mask and at times its a ridiculous mask. After all, what does lurk in the depths of Kathy Lee's psyche?" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
62%

Enlightenment Guaranteed (2001)

" Gorgeous! Two brothers discover Zen in spite of themselves." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
40%

Electric Dreams (1984)

" Beautiful people, a flimsy plot, an old idea but a surprisingly tight story structure and "The Song" (Electric Dreams Theme) by Culture Club." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
93%

Election (1999)

" List Price: $29.99 Price: $26.99 find out more information Surprisingly sophisticated and complex for what could have been a lighthearted rock driven lifestyle advertisement for the adolescent eMpTyV set." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

N/A

Fresh
69%

Edge of Seventeen (1998)

" Embarassingly accurate new wave rebellion color this fun, sappy teen gay romance." — Hollywood Bitchslap
MISCELLANEOUS

Posted May 23, 2003

Rotten
2/5

Rotten
19%

Down to Earth (2001)

" Down to Earth tries to be too many things for too many people and ends up being like a pair of siamese twins that don’t get along." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
91%

Dinner Rush (2001)

" A giant restaurant commercial in a sexy, old Manhatten kind of way" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 23, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
96%

Dark Days (2000)

" A sharply engaging and sympathetic portrait of some of Manhattan's dispossesed surviving in the most unlikely of circumstances." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
62%

Dark Blue World (2001)

" This Czech film is skillfully executed, superbly acted and avoids all the clichés of a war hero’s story" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
68%

Dancer in the Dark (1999)

" Dancer won Bjork the Palm D'Or for being ultra-cool." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Rotten
3/5

Rotten
45%

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

" Tragically boring." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
97%

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)

" The tale looses a stitch now and again, but in all, its a solid, engaging, beautifully crafted film." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
63%

Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

" Director John Stockwell really took the time to show authentic Angeleno Latino culture." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
5/5

N/A

Cosi (1996)

" A tribute to art as the path of creative self-realization and expression of the inner forces at work in our psyche." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
83%

Clueless (1995)

" Supercute remake of Jane Austen's 'Emma'" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Rotten
45%

The Cell (2000)

" Stunning visuals. Fine as a concept film, even kind of arty and intriguing. But plot? no." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
51%

Cecil B. Demented (2000)

" Brilliant, self-indulgent, self-referential film. Pure Waters." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

N/A

Fresh
100%

The Atomic Cafe (1982)

" Irony laden collage of 50's era nuclear preparedness films by G-dub Jr's cousin!" — Hollywood Bitchslap
PREVIEW

Posted May 19, 2003

Rotten
1/5

Fresh
60%

Arlington Road (1999)

" Crappy movie that runs all over the place, has no cohesion or thread and is punctuated with a series of not only improbable and unexpected, but completely illogical turns." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
92%

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

" The restored French Plantation scene gives the film the right counterpoise in its argument that the Viet Nam war was nothing more than administrative insanity played out on the world's stage." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
60%

The Anniversary Party (2001)

" The Anniversary Party is a great fantasy and I was actually a little bummed that I didn't have such a wonderful, accomplished, charming, vibrant, close knit group of friends." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
100%

Andy Warhol's Heat (1972)

" The Names, the lights, the utterly banal yet skewed lives of Los Angeles has beens and the mindlessly grating drama of their lives makes for a surprisingly good voyereustic time." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
54%

An American Rhapsody (2001)

" We are taken from a farm in Hungary and into a bizarro world of tract homes, hula hoops, ketchup and outright rebellion." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
13%

American Outlaws (2001)

" Lots of cute guys hanging out shirtless and being charming and witty while robbing banks and carrying on, God bless their hearts." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Fresh
89%

American Beauty (1999)

" We may finally see the last vestiges of post-war suburban consciousness thrown out the window." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
32%

America's Sweethearts (2001)

" In an art imitates life imitates art moment, Larry King, who plays himself, plays himself." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

N/A

All the Rage (1998)

" Revealing and sometimes depressing look at the cost of shallowness in a gay man's life." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Rotten
43%

All Over the Guy (2001)

" Refreshingly honest in its wide portrayal of the larger picture of gay life" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
3/5

Fresh
90%

All of Me (1984)

" A farcical comedy of errors with a genderbending twist." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
4/5

Fresh
69%

The Adventures of Felix (2001)

" Experience and maturity come into play and this road trip movie takes us through those invisible gates we pass through when we know that was is no longer." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
3/5

N/A

Abba in Concert (1979)

" Does Abba make you gay, or does being gay make Abba?" — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 19, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Rotten
33%

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

" Wickedly funny satire disguising an acidic indictment of homophobia." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 14, 2003

Fresh
5/5

Rotten
30%

Bubble Boy (2001)

" Bubble Boy is the stupidest comedy yet and uses anything it can get its hands on for laughs. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this film. And that's why you should see it." — Hollywood Bitchslap

Posted May 14, 2003
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