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Chuck Bowen

Chuck Bowen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
House Next Door , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
185

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/4 46% Trouble Every Day (Gargoyle) (2001) " There's possibly no other living director as in sync with the politics of touch as Claire Denis." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2013
92% The Big Combo (1955) " Yes, The Big Combo is barren of extras in the tradition of most Olive Films releases, but this is an otherwise solid presentation of a beautifully perverse noir staple." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2013
3/4 68% Bad Milo! (2013) " It's fair to say that a filmmaker is thinking outside of the box when he or she stages a scene in which an ambulatory hemorrhoid tears a guy's cock off with its teeth and swallows it. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2013
1.5/4 8% Argento's Dracula 3D (2013) " The film is dispiriting because there's virtually no sign of Dario Argento in it, nor of any novel motivation to mount yet another version of an oft-told tale. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2013
0% Amityville 3-D (1983) " Shout! Factory wasn't quite able to rouse itself up to its typical standard with The Amityville Horror Trilogy, which is understandable considering the general dullness of the films themselves. Horror fans are advised to look elsewhere." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2013
7% Amityville II: The Possession (1982) " Shout! Factory wasn't quite able to rouse itself up to its typical standard with The Amityville Horror Trilogy, which is understandable considering the general dullness of the films themselves. Horror fans are advised to look elsewhere." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2013
25% The Amityville Horror (1979) " Shout! Factory wasn't quite able to rouse itself up to its typical standard with The Amityville Horror Trilogy, which is understandable considering the general dullness of the films themselves. Horror fans are advised to look elsewhere." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2013
1.5/4 85% We Are What We Are (2013) " Jim Mickle plays the scenario deadly straight and unintentionally exposes all of its attendant absurdities, leaving the cast stranded." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2013
58% Psycho II (1983) " Norman Bates gets out of the funny house and reacquaints himself with the tedium of a day job. It doesn't go well." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2013
47% The Lords of Salem (2013) " This rich and gorgeous disc damn near rectifies this film's nearly unforgivably indifferent theatrical release earlier in the year, and in time for Halloween to boot." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2013
82% Day of the Dead (1985) " Any real zombie fan knows that political parable and decomposing cannibal corpse gore go together like peanut butter and jelly, but Day of the Dead found the subgenre's reigning master and poet-in-residence mismanaging the proper ratios a bit." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2013
95% Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) (1978) " Autumn Sonata remains a fascinating sampler of the great Ingmar Bergman's most brilliant and troubled tendencies." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/4 60% +1 (2013) " It ambitiously parodies and mourns the implications of the one coherent message that mass media manages to convey to all of its consumers in all its endlessly proliferating, ever-shifting permutations." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2013
85% The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) " It's worth braving the winds of the harsh merciless world to obtain this upgrade of a stone-cold espionage classic." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2013
2.5/4 34% Hell Baby (2013) " The filmmakers satirize the often obscenely meaningless ways in which people of a certain socioeconomic strata attempt to launder their white guilt." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2013
4/4 93% Le Mépris (Contempt) (2008) " A rich and heady cocktail of the various things swimming around in Jean-Luc Godard's mind at the time of its production." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2013
98% Mud (2013) " Jeff Nichols's beautiful and touching adventure is a bracing reminder of the primal thrill that a great pop film can offer." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1/4 57% The Frozen Ground (2013) " Taste and good intentions are only going to get one so far with a script this tone deaf and direction this ugly and monotonous." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2013
68% Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) " It's nice to see the old killer bird serpent come out of hiding, but one wishes that Shout! Factory had thrown a more ambitious welcome back party." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2013
2.5/4 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " The film, more likely to invite comparisons to the writings of Marcel Proust than the previous Ip Man films, is a gorgeous folly that never entirely emerges from its creator's head." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2013
74% A Boy and His Dog (1975) " A Boy and His Dog is more than just your everyday post-apocalyptic western reverie of the joys of adolescent poon hunting." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2013
100% The Earrings of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings) (1954) " This not-quite-stellar release proves that the Criterion Collection, like the heroes of Max Ophüls's masterpiece, isn't quite infallible." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 4, 2013
.5/4 22% The Canyons (2013) " Paul Schrader and Brett Easton Ellis don't have the sense of play this kind of narrative of one-upmanship requires, as we're never allowed to enjoy the characters' misdeeds." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
68% The Fog (1979) " In retrospect, The Fog is an enjoyable, somewhat forgettable warm-up for The Thing, John Carpenter's masterpiece of isolated loneliness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2013
2/4 78% Europa Report (2013) " After a while, it's hard to escape the fact that the audience is watching a potential monster movie in which most of the fun stuff--i.e. the monster--has been pared away." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2013
31% Twixt (2013) " This edition makes a weak, halfhearted case for Francis Ford Coppola's latest oddity, which can use all the defense it can get." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2013
100% Lord of the Flies (1963) " A characteristically top-shelf Criterion presentation of a savage tale that hasn't aged a second." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 20, 2013
4/4 97% Drug War (2013) " The film is a singularly huge, relentless, all-encompassing set piece that mutates and spasms with terrifying lack of foresight. It's all business, business, business." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2013
57% Street Trash (1986) " Street Trash is indisputably the film to see if you've longed to watch a homeless wino flush himself down a commode. That's a compliment." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2013
3/4 62% Broken (2013) " It's the rare coming-of-age narrative that manages to respect the tricky ambiguities of shifting perceptions." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2013
—— Cohen and Tate (1988) " Cohen & Tate isn't in the league of the best despairing existentialist thrillers of Walter Hill, but it'll do in a pinch." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2013
2.5/4 12% Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) " Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2013
3/4 95% The Hunt (2013) " The film is in part an exceedingly black comedy that parodies proper society's eager, self-righteous naïveté on the subject of its children." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2013
.5/4 25% Absence (2013) " The tension almost immediately leaks out of the narrative once we realize we're watching a found-footage horror movie." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
92% The Producers (1968) " Uneven yet undeniably personal and seminal, The Producers receives Blu-ray treatment that's respectable but not quite red-carpet." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
2.5/4 87% 100 Bloody Acres (2013) " One sees a film called 100 Bloody Acres expecting the requisite allusions to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but an homage to the best scene in Melvin and Howard comes as something of a shock." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2013
100% Shoah (1985) " Draining, demanding, resonant, and absolutely essential." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2013
4/4 80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " It takes cojones for a filmmaker to chase Fassbinder's ghost, but it takes heart and talent to damn near catch up with it." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2013
67% Lifeforce (1985) " If you think you've got it rough in the love department, try dating a gorgeous space-vampire hell-bent on harvesting your planet's souls. Then we'll talk." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 16, 2013
1/4 —— The Haunting of Helena (2013) " Yet another ghost story that insists there's nothing more chilling than a professional woman charged with raising a child on her own." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2013
.5/4 25% Vehicle 19 (2013) " As one incoherent action scene follows another, one's left staring at a film with nothing to respond to, waiting for it all to be over." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2013
3.5/4 83% Berberian Sound Studio (2013) " On the surface an amusing black comedy that parodies the horror movie's continual status as the cultural black sheep of the cinematic landscape, but it's most prominently concerned with painting a sonic portrait of alienation." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 9, 2013
95% Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957) " This superb Criterion edition of Wild Strawberries is lacking only a commentary by legendary Ingmar Bergman fanboy Woody Allen, but let's get real." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 8, 2013
100% Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) " A disappointingly half-assed treatment of a legendary post-apocalyptic action series that boasts two indisputable genre classics. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2013
95% Mad Max (1979) " A disappointingly half-assed treatment of a legendary post-apocalyptic action series that boasts two indisputable genre classics. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2013
81% Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) " A disappointingly half-assed treatment of a legendary post-apocalyptic action series that boasts two indisputable genre classics. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2013
2/4 65% Hey Bartender (2013) " Sadly, Douglas Tirola's documentary doesn't follow its subjects' advice regarding the refinement of technique. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2013
3/4 63% The Prey (2013) " A trim and exciting beach-read of a movie." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2013
100% Life Is Sweet (1991) " Criterion welcomes this early Mike Leigh masterpiece into the fold of contemporary classics with a stunning image and outstanding audio commentary. Life is, well, you know." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 30, 2013
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