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Chuck Bowen

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Writing about movies, books, TV. Interviews. Bylines: @Slant_Magazine. @Guardian. @TheAtlantic. @TheAVClub. @Fandor. @Modern_Luxury. @vulture.
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Best Movies of 2026… So Far

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Writing intros to listicles is my most thankless task as a reviewer, and I always write them last, when I’m closest to being done with the assignment at hand and am nearly able to pick up a book or go swimming or not think of the stuff in the kitchen that I’m currently not eating. Attempting to discern trends feels to me for the most part to be the critic’s most tedious parlor game, akin to trying to discern messages from ashes.
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Raw, Personal, Distilled

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“In the Hand of Dante” is an anachronism — a macho writer’s movie. It harks back to the days of Greatest Generation and Boomer and Gen X male writers trying to liken prose to existential bloodsport. Think Hemingway and Mailer and many others. This is one of those movies in which a writer says that he’d rather be physically tortured than have his work edited, while guzzling booze in a seedy bar that testifies to his street-cured integrity.
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Wrath

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Writer-director Aleshea Harris has reconfigured her play “Is God Is” into a fevered movie-movie, as this is not a polite play-to-film with actors reading lines against glorified proscenium arches. It is restless and trigger-happy, running hot with colors that have been hyper-saturated with western MSG, along with jittery editing rhythms and fetishistic close-ups.
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