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Chuck Bowen

Chuck Bowen's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The AV Club, Style Weekly, and other publications.

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ Review: An Ecstatically Maximalist Celebration of Ritual

by Chuck Bowen
October 6, 2024

The huge party at the film’s center is among the great parties of recent American cinema.

Happiness

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Todd Solondz’s ‘Happiness’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
September 27, 2024

Happiness is a caustic, beautiful, funny, tiresome, and brilliant Molotov cocktail.

A Traveler's Needs

‘A Traveler’s Needs’ Review: Hong Sang-soo’s Unusually Uneven Drama Still Bears Fruit

by Chuck Bowen
September 20, 2024

The variableness of this movie is the risk of a working method as rapid and intuitive as Hong’s.

By the Stream

‘By the Stream’ Review: Hong Sang-soo’s Bittersweet Tale About Fostering Belonging

by Chuck Bowen
September 6, 2024

Hong’s film understands that the reassuring bond of community that can also be a trap.

Cloud

‘Cloud’ Review: Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Action-Forward Satire of the Dangers of Online Reselling

by Chuck Bowen
August 31, 2024

In Cloud, Kurosawa literalizes the online rage machine with physical violence.

Mother

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Albert Brooks’s ‘Mother’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
August 27, 2024

The film is a loving yet obsessive parody of the stereotypes that stand between generations.

Prime Cut

Review: Michael Ritchie’s ‘Prime Cut’ on KL Studio Classics 4K UHD Blu-ray

by Chuck Bowen Budd Wilkins
August 15, 2024

Prime Cut is a grimly off-kilter crime film that examines the line separating man and beast.

Demons

Review: Lamberto Bava’s ‘Demons’ on Limited Edition Synapse Films 4K UHD

by Chuck Bowen
August 13, 2024

Demons is a monument to the horror genre’s potential for Grand Guignol beauty.

Risky Business

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Paul Brickman’s ‘Risky Business’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
July 22, 2024

Is the film a satire of consumerism or an example of it? It’s both and the better for it.

Le Samouraï

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Samouraï’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
July 11, 2024

The film’s aesthetic walks a tight rope between the rarefied and the everyday.

Perfect Days

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Wim Wenders’s ‘Perfect Days’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen Jake Cole
July 5, 2024

Wenders’s autumnal, Ozuian drama receives a gorgeous UHD release from Criterion.

The Substance

‘The Substance’ Review: Coralie Fargeat’s Exhilarating Feminist Body-Horror Freak Show

by Chuck Bowen
July 1, 2024

It’s impossible to deny that Fargeat’s film holds you even at its most frenzied.

Blue Velvet

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
June 19, 2024

Criterion somehow improves upon what already felt like a definitive presentation of the film.

Oh, Canada

‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Paul Schrader’s Profoundly Existential Reflection on Estrangement

by Chuck Bowen
May 25, 2024

The self-loathing here is front and center, and Schrader looks it straight in the eye.

Narc

Review: Joe Carnahan’s ‘Narc’ on Limited Edition Arrow Video 4K Ultra HD

by Chuck Bowen
May 21, 2024

Narc is one of the gnarliest and most powerful crime films of early-aughts American cinema.

Stop Making Sense

Review: Stop Making Sense Gets 4K UHD Blu-ray Deluxe Collector’s Edition from A24

by Chuck Bowen Jake Cole
May 20, 2024

The greatest concert film of all time looks and sounds better than ever on A24’s release.

Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow Review: The Ross Brothers’ Formally Extravagant Teenage Daydream

by Chuck Bowen
May 5, 2024

The film is rich in compositions that seem to cut to the essence of the characters’ yearnings.

Rolling Thunder

Review: John Flynn’s Rolling Thunder on Shout! Factory 4K UHD Blu-ray

by Chuck Bowen Derek Smith
April 23, 2024

Flynn’s film is a lean, mean revenge thriller that could have only been made in the 1970s.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ on the Criterion Collection

by Chuck Bowen
February 8, 2024

Criterion breathes new life into one of the most rapturously poetic of all American movies.

In the Summers

‘In the Summers’ Review: Ties That Bond, and Fray

by Chuck Bowen
January 31, 2024

One of the film’s great strengths is how confidently it lets details speak for themselves.

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