Thom Fowler

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% 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:
137
Total QuickRatings:
45
Location:
San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Mars

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 62% 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
1/5 97% Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) " Film version carefully edits out the central issue of homosexuality and "White" marriages" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
1/5 27% Amy's O (Amy's Orgasm) (Why Love Doesn't Work) (2002) " To portray modern women the way director Davis has done is just unthinkable." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Aug 26, 2002
1/5 —— Omen IV - The Awakening (1991) " Go back to sleep" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
1/5 —— Zapped Again! (1990) " once was enough" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
75% The Cat's Meow (2001) " Not exactly the Bees Knees" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Apr 14, 2002
2/5 14% 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
2/5 20% 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
2/5 83% The Bourne Identity (2002) " This rehashed piece of junk should have taken a lesson from Sneakers or Mission: Impossible - two great films it borrows most of its script from." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 14, 2003
2/5 15% Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) " See the original with the Beatles" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
2/5 65% Possession (2002) " Great trailer, too bad the movie sucks." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Aug 16, 2002
2/5 82% The Believer (2002) " If Jews were Catholics, this would be Catechism" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 21, 2002
2/5 91% Murderous Maids (2002) " The elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 9, 2002
3/5 84% Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) " Darryl Hannah practically steals the movie." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Apr 16, 2004
3/5 45% Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) " Homo-erotic, swashbuckling, and magically adventurous" — eFilmCritic.com
Posted Jun 20, 2003
3/5 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
3/5 50% The Heart of Me (2003) " Hum-drum melodrama with fabulous period details" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jun 7, 2003
3/5 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
3/5 45% The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) " Tragically boring." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 19, 2003
3/5 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
3/5 100% 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
3/5 90% All of Me (1984) " A farcical comedy of errors with a genderbending twist." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 19, 2003
3/5 —— Abba in Concert () " Does Abba make you gay, or does being gay make Abba?" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 19, 2003
3/5 25% Prophecy (1979) " Genetic mutation, nuclear-waste and Native Americans ecological monster movie" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Dec 20, 2002
3/5 54% The Transporter (2002) " One long car chase. If you can ignore the cliches and the bad acting, and just focus on Jason Statham's ***, it won't sting as much when you realize you just spend 8 dollars and you coulda got porn." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
3/5 —— Sex Is... (1994) " Great way to expand your horizons" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
3/5 76% Adventures in Babysitting (1987) " Funny story of babysitting gone awry with a cameo by Norse god Thor - didn't age well" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
3/5 15% Howard the Duck (1986) " Cute movie based on comic book about a duck from outer space" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
3/5 79% Orlando (1992) " Clever rendering of Virginia Woolf's eponymous novel exploring love and gender" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Oct 13, 2002
3/5 92% Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (2001) " Gorgeous scenes, masterful performances, but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Aug 21, 2002
3/5 50% The Château (2002) " Francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Aug 12, 2002
3/5 79% 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (1984) " a passable realization" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 54% Less Than Zero (1987) " Who knew it would Downy Jr's biography?" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 100% Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood)(My Name Is Ivan)(The Youngest Spy) (1962) " Bleak, depressing, nervous breakdown in exile during wartime" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 97% Read My Lips (Sur mes lèvres) (2002) " Revenge is a dish best served cold" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 95% The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) " was the must see film for cinephiles, charmingly antiquated but still relevant" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 79% Warm Water Under A Red Bridge (2002) " An absurd premise hides not truth, but wisdom" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 30, 2002
3/5 80% Sunshine State (2002) " Tightly woven drama about hometown blues" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jun 30, 2002
3/5 48% Cherish (2002) " This anti-romance breaks with convention and suffers for it" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jun 5, 2002
3/5 34% World Traveler (2002) " Fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots, just dots." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Apr 26, 2002
86% Gosford Park (2001) " Hollywood, the fashion world, suburbia and now the English aristocracy" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Apr 14, 2002
4/5 71% 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
4/5 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
4/5 94% Dirty Pretty Things (2003) " Stephen Frears turns nuanced, understated performances into an intensely pitched drama." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jul 28, 2003
4/5 63% 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
4/5 84% Swimming Pool (2003) " Rampling and Sagnier drive a fiercely provocative film" — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted Jun 20, 2003
4/5 78% Get Real (1999) " An entertaining, saccharine sweet, English gay coming-out story told with depth and clarity." — Hollywood Bitchslap
Posted May 23, 2003
4/5 52% Fairy Tale - 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
4/5 18% Faces of Death (1999) " 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
4/5 86% 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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