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Scott Bowles

Scott Bowles's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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USA Today film critic.

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Frank (2014) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Even if Frank is a little too smitten with its own quirkiness, the film's examination of what matters in music - fame, money, sanity? - works as a kind of Behind the Music peek at a band's struggle for identity and devotees.” – USA Today Aug 14, 2014 Full Review James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge (2014) 69% 2.5/4 EDIT “Film lovers will see how Cameron not only came up with ideas like The Abyss and Titanic, but how his drive turns obsession into commercial movies, usually very profitable ones.” – USA Today Aug 7, 2014 Full Review Hercules (2014) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Johnson was born for this kind of kick-butt-with-a-smirk role. In one scene, he appears to throw a charging horse over his shoulder, and it somehow doesn't look hokey.” – USA Today Jul 25, 2014 Full Review And So It Goes (2014) 16% 2/4 EDIT “The movie deserves credit for putting itself in the hands of acting craftsmen.The story just feels awfully familiar.” – USA Today Jul 24, 2014 Full Review Wish I Was Here (2014) 45% 2/4 EDIT “A heartfelt if heavy-handed sermon about chasing dreams, forgiving sins and honoring Woody Allen.” – USA Today Jul 17, 2014 Full Review Tokarev (2014) 13% 2/4 EDIT “Rage is so full of clich, convention and just plain odd narrative choices that it can't get out of its own way.” – USA Today Jul 10, 2014 Full Review Deliver Us From Evil (2014) 29% 1.5/4 EDIT “Even horror neophytes won't be spooked by a film that looks as if it were shot with a smartphone and an Itty Bitty Booklight.” – USA Today Jul 1, 2014 Full Review Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) 18% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Transformers are brilliant, brave, world-conquering space travelers. Time to morph into something entertaining.” – USA Today Jun 27, 2014 Full Review The Signal (2014) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “Signal thinks big, takes chances and has enough arresting scenes to stand apart from the science fiction films of late.” – USA Today Jun 12, 2014 Full Review Hellion (2014) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Though some characters go underdeveloped, Hellion marks one of Hollywood's most realistic examinations of rural high school angst since Friday Night Lights, another teen drama set in Texas.” – USA Today Jun 12, 2014 Full Review Obvious Child (2014) 90% 2/4 EDIT “A dark romantic comedy that has plenty of the first, a little of the second and none of third.” – USA Today Jun 5, 2014 Full Review Cold in July (2014) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Has enough nods to classic capers to make for effective pulp fiction - and revive Don Johnson's career.” – USA Today May 22, 2014 Full Review Wolf Creek 2 (2013) 51% 1.5/4 EDIT “While Creek has some notable frights reminiscent of the 2005 original, this version tries too hard to create a franchise-able serial killer from Down Under, a Mad Max with a machete.” – USA Today May 15, 2014 Full Review Palo Alto (2013) 70% 2/4 EDIT “Palo Alto marks one of those rare films that is so accurate in its portrayal of characters that the movie suffers for it.” – USA Today May 15, 2014 Full Review Chef (2014) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “Don't fill up on concessions if you catch Chef. You're going to want to eat afterward, even with a belly full of popcorn.” – USA Today May 8, 2014 Full Review Fed Up (2014) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Fed Up will change the way you look at junk food. Or at least the companies that peddle it.” – USA Today May 8, 2014 Full Review Draft Day (2014) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “Draft's reverence for the gridiron, its heroes and the cities that worship them (particularly Cleveland) will make the movie a first-round pick of diehards.” – USA Today Apr 10, 2014 Full Review Sabotage (2014) 21% 1/4 EDIT “Bloody, banal and boasting a surprisingly able clutch of stars who will soon be deleting this from their rsums, Sabotage is a 109-minute cadaver count.” – USA Today Mar 27, 2014 Full Review 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) 45% 2/4 EDIT “For anyone looking for a sense of script (forget plausibility), Empire is a Trojan horse.” – USA Today Mar 6, 2014 Full Review 3 Days to Kill (2014) 27% 1.5/4 EDIT “Contrived and manic, Days can't decide whether it's a thriller, comedy or feel-good family film.” – USA Today Feb 20, 2014 Full Review Gimme Shelter (2014) 27% 1/4 EDIT “Plays like an after-school TV special. Shot after school. At the gym.” – USA Today Jan 23, 2014 Full Review Ride Along (2014) 18% 2.5/4 EDIT “[Hart] gives Ride just enough buoyancy to keep it afloat, despite a story that would sink most performances.” – USA Today Jan 16, 2014 Full Review The Nut Job (2014) 13% 1.5/4 EDIT “When the story gets stale, the movie inserts a "nuts" pun or, worse, resorts to a gas or burp joke. It doesn't work the first time, nor the fifth.” – USA Today Jan 16, 2014 Full Review The Legend of Hercules (2014) 5% 2/4 EDIT “Cross-pollinated by sword-and-sandal flicks 300 and Gladiator,this Hercules can't muster the visual punch of the first nor the character depth of the latter.” – USA Today Jan 10, 2014 Full Review Grudge Match (2013) 31% 1.5/4 EDIT “A desultory boxing flick whose punches miss wildly as entertainment but manage to chip away at the iconic legends who return to the ring after decades away from the sweet science.” – USA Today Dec 23, 2013 Full Review
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