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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chuck Bowen, Thomas Peyser.

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Secret Mall Apartment (2024) Chuck Bowen Director Jeremy Workman teases the story out cleverly, with a flashback structure that allows your sense of Townsend and this mall stunt to gradually deepen.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Chuck Bowen "Peter Hujar’s Day" is not a lifeless museum piece slash rarefied art experiment. Hujar’s stories are arresting because we are accorded a double vision of what he says and how he says it.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Chuck Bowen For the most part, "The Rip" is crime-movie sludge as usual.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Chuck Bowen It suggests a submerged New Yorker story with crunchy bits of Jarmusch’s boutique-hipster precision.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Chuck Bowen The mixture of influences and subject matter is mesmerizingly atypical, and Polinger makes the most of it, keeping us off balance.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Keeper (2025) Chuck Bowen The script is thin but adequate, and Perkins utilizes it as a springboard for eerie folk horror imagery.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Chuck Bowen Quietness paired with the right actors allow us to feel as if we are seeing the process of thought in motion.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) Chuck Bowen This movie has soft spots, but it’s also beautiful and generous.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Chuck Bowen It’s the tone of "Predators" that is distinctively powerful, especially in the expanding realm of TV crime. The film is soulful, anguished.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Chuck Bowen The biblical bleakness gets under your skin, as does Edgerton’s powerful, tactile performance.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Chuck Bowen Trier has invested his characters with contradictions that feel real and archetypal at once.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
King Ivory (2024) Chuck Bowen If you’re looking for something sharp and nasty to cut through the holiday bloat, you could do much worse than "King Ivory."
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Chuck Bowen Linklater celebrates the expanding of an art form’s boundaries by coloring within its lines.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Chuck Bowen “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.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Chuck Bowen “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.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Chuck Bowen And so here we are with “Bugonia,” this year’s prestige Lanthimos fugazi.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Chuck Bowen It captures the sensation of reading today’s apocalyptic headlines and guiltily wondering “when does this get so bad that it touches me?
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Queens of the Dead (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Chuck Bowen 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.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Chuck Bowen It’s a horror movie as YouTube animal porn, and you may be amazed by how well Leonberg brings off a potentially absurd concept.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
V/H/S Halloween (2025) Chuck Bowen There’s not a dud to be found here, which is rarely true of even classic horror anthologies, and a few of the shorts reach into the realm of the uncanny.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Chuck Bowen Not bad, very forgettable, ideal for half-watching on a flight.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Chuck Bowen Think a chase-and-siege thriller and a daffy comedy and a socio-politically freighted romantic triangle and a government satire and two or three of the best action movies in decades run all at once for 161 minutes
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The History of Sound (2025) Chuck Bowen It’s one of those films that appears to have grown out of a ‘just add water’ Oscar-bait kit.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Megadoc (2025) Chuck Bowen An acclaimed filmmaker filming an icon is irresistible, and “Megadoc” has a chilly, dryly amusing power.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Chuck Bowen It’s a wonderful surprise, something of a millennial melodrama that’s animated by a sharp and tender sense of humor.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Chuck Bowen “Spinal Tap II” benefits from rock’s disappearance, allowing the movie to speak to more than fond wishes for its predecessor. This film is about Boomers and an eroding culture.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Lurker (2025) Chuck Bowen The film’s cynicism is creepy, then moving and wickedly amusing.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Chuck Bowen “Highest 2 Lowest” took me to a breaking point with Spike Lee’s peacocking.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Chuck Bowen I had moderate fun with this “Toxie.”
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Chuck Bowen This thing should run like a slim airport read, but the movie keeps stopping and starting all over again.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Relay (2024) Chuck Bowen Director David Mackenzie and screenwriter Justin Piasecki have taken the template for a 1970s-style paranoia thriller and set a challenge for themselves: How can thrillers even happen in an era with 24-7 surveillance?
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) Chuck Bowen This is a wounded, tangy movie, a pocket noir with a pulse.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Chuck Bowen Yes, it’s moody, but this movie has no texture
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Chuck Bowen Sandler is older and wiser here, but not even he can go home again.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Chuck Bowen Who is this odd and bland mixture of thriller and romance for?
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
House on Eden (2025) Chuck Bowen “House on Eden” is serviceable found footage horror with splashes of cunning.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Chuck Bowen “Materialists” is the kind of movie that I most resent: one that is praised for being boring, which is mistaken for seriousness. It’s a bougie nothingburger, in other words.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Chuck Bowen “Eddington” drops the media machine into a western and makes the union feel inevitable.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) Chuck Bowen By the end of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the preciousness of the material has burned away to reveal a scalding, biblical fury.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Sunlight (2024) Chuck Bowen A comedian and ventriloquist, Conti has the skill to encourage you to roll with it, and the pleasure of “Sunlight” springs from giving yourself over to absurdity that turns out to count for more than you expect.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Sovereign (2025) Chuck Bowen And the film’s austere and convincing imagery, suggesting the filmmakers have actually met people outside of the movie industry, brings to mind the work of another Paul: Schrader.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Vulcanizadora (2024) Chuck Bowen This one might be a good first step for those curious about a filmmaker who hides earnestness and poignancy under a cloud of obstinacy.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Chuck Bowen The exhilarating cinematic fever breaks far too soon in “28 Years Later,” most likely leaving you feeling as if you’ve been screwed.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Chuck Bowen A lovely surprise, “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is a romantically tinged comedy of regret that comforts you without making you feel as if you’ve been had.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
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