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Chuck Bowen

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Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “There’s a fine line between understanding the rage that creates a Kiritsis and giving into blood lust as a means of condescension, and the filmmakers here cross it.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% EDIT “For the most part, "The Rip" is crime-movie sludge as usual.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “We’ve got plenty of stylish international thrillers, even if few of them are at Park’s level of play, while art that’s in tune with the widening gulf between the gilded set and the working class is in short supply.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “It suggests a submerged New Yorker story with crunchy bits of Jarmusch’s boutique-hipster precision. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “This is a spicy movie, less a story of white collar drones than a full-blooded thriller with jolts of sex and horror and tragedy and surrealism that are tied together by a sense of the absurd that suits authoritarian and fascist regimes. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “If these words sound contradictory, that gives you an idea of what Obenhaus and Poitras manage to do here: wrestle with a person’s irresolvable textures onscreen.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “The mixture of influences and subject matter is mesmerizingly atypical, and Polinger makes the most of it, keeping us off balance.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “The flash of "Uncut Gems" had a purpose, plunging you into the addled head space of a gambling junkie. "Marty Supreme" is a parade of hipster credentials. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% EDIT “The script is thin but adequate, and Perkins utilizes it as a springboard for eerie folk horror imagery. ” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “Quietness paired with the right actors allow us to feel as if we are seeing the process of thought in motion.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% EDIT “This movie has soft spots, but it’s also beautiful and generous.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s the tone of "Predators" that is distinctively powerful, especially in the expanding realm of TV crime. The film is soulful, anguished.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “The biblical bleakness gets under your skin, as does Edgerton’s powerful, tactile performance.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Trier has invested his characters with contradictions that feel real and archetypal at once.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 21, 2025 Full Review King Ivory (2024) 71% EDIT “If you’re looking for something sharp and nasty to cut through the holiday bloat, you could do much worse than "King Ivory."” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Linklater celebrates the expanding of an art form’s boundaries by coloring within its lines.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT ““Too much” is the point of course; it’s meant to be alienating, as most of Ramsay’s movies are. But sometimes alienating is just a fancier word for annoying.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT ““It Was Just an Accident” is also a rarity: a movie that is actually interested in the moral cost of revenge, rather than making a pretense of concern before offering action fireworks.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “And so here we are with “Bugonia,” this year’s prestige Lanthimos fugazi.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 66% EDIT “It captures the sensation of reading today’s apocalyptic headlines and guiltily wondering “when does this get so bad that it touches me?” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% EDIT “For its first and best act, “Queens of the Dead” plays as a surprisingly traditional backstage farce, modernized with an awareness of how social media has super-sized our narcissism at the expense of a social collective.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Yet there’s a sense of transcendence to the film, which shows how much freer a biopic can feel when artists make choices, digging into the manna of someone’s emotional life instead of relying on triumphalist cradle-to-grave clichés.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% 4.5/5 EDIT “Combs, Sampson, and Gale are as over the top as the outrageous, deliriously inventive special effects; you can practically see a proscenium arch when they’re on screen, as they’re (necessarily) pitching their roles to the rafters.” – Slant Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “[This] isn't a gay issues film, and it isn’t intended as a soapbox lecture about British nationalism either. It isn’t even a simple condemnation of Thatcherism. The film is about all of these things and none of these things simultaneously.” – Slant Magazine Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s a horror movie as YouTube animal porn, and you may be amazed by how well Leonberg brings off a potentially absurd concept.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review
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