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Peter Bowen

Peter Bowen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Secret Passions (1990) EDIT “It is not simply that the show is bad... but that it operates on bad faith.” – OutWeek May 28, 2020 Full Review Longtime Companion (1990) 92% EDIT “The film unfortunately tells its stories too well, ghettoizing them to a narrative that remains oblivious to its own historical groundwork.” – OutWeek May 21, 2020 Full Review A Strange Love Affair (1985) EDIT “Formally elegant and brilliantly shot.” – OutWeek May 21, 2020 Full Review Born on the Fourth of July (1989) 84% EDIT “The film internalizes Cruise's acting career from beef-cake adolescent lo gung-ho patriot within the Film's plot, transforms him into a serious actor by making him at once handicapped and ugly.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Maurice (1987) 82% EDIT “The most stunning example of such a persistently ambiguous vision, which is often about the inability to express or even know one's desire, is Maurice... If the film is slow and confusing, its confusion is inherent in attempts to represent gay sexuality.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) 80% EDIT “A terribly beautiful film... [that] makes one at times almost forget the simultaneously banal and and violent lives which the film remembers.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review True Love (1989) 75% EDIT “True Love renders this Iocal community at once strangely familiar and and culturally foreign. Under the scrutiny of such an ethnographic gaze, perhaps it is not so bad remaining invisible.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Drugstore Cowboy (1989) 97% EDIT “Drugstore Cowboy offers a deeply moving and profoundly beautiful film.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) 65% EDIT “What makes these stories utterly depressing is not the despair they disclose with routine banality, but the utterly relentless violence the film deploys against any character who even attempts to change his/her fate.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Macho Dancer (1988) EDIT “Such economic realities are what produce the film's most profound and enlightening contradictions.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Black Rain (1988) 86% EDIT “What is most poignant in this historic narrative is how profoundly it echoes a crisis currently happening all about us.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Black Rain (1989) 52% EDIT “A rather xenophobic tale of American cops fighting Japanese crime.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review The Comfort of Strangers (1990) 54% EDIT “The film incites a certain paranoia about anyone or any place that is, for lack of a better word, queer.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Poison (1991) 80% EDIT “Poison internalizes its criminality by playing havoc with the laws of narrative and genre.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Relentless (1989) 50% EDIT “Rather than provoking a twisted examination of the pathology of the police/criminal mind. Relentless unfortunately settles into a rather bland police buddy story.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Casualties of War (1989) 82% EDIT “Does Vietnam have a geographical place, a national history, a culture, or a political future? Not really, for as we are reassured at the end of Brian De Palma's military slasher film, Casualties of War, Vietnam was after all only a "bad dream."” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989) 100% EDIT “While such criticisms are relevant, it is also empowering finally to see a work that recognizes without apology the lives of gay people affected by AIDS connected to others who have experienced firsthand the AIDS crisis.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Breaking In (1989) 80% EDIT “Written by John Sayles and directed by the Scottish director, Bill Forsyth, the film works at certain levels by combining Sayles' local American realism with Forsyth's rather quirky sense of humor.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review
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