Josh Bowlin

Josh Bowlin

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • The Truman Show
  • The Nice Guys
  • When Harry Met Sally...

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  • Game Night

    ★★★★

  • Mean Girls

    ★★★

  • Gran Turismo

    ★★★½

  • No Hard Feelings

    ½

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  • Game Night

    Game Night

    ★★★★

    I didn’t have insanely high hopes for this going in but this was a pretty great movie. Very funny, some real unique visual choices, and it feels like people were having a fun time making it.

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    The plot does get a little convoluted - if I think too hard about how many different “kidnapping” plots happen to be going on at the same time, my suspension of disbelief does start to erode slightly. But not enough to ruin my enjoyment.

  • Mean Girls

    Mean Girls

    ★★★

    I think I have to watch this a second time to really figure out my thoughts on it, but initial impressions - I was a little let down. I love the original Mean Girls so I had really high expectations for this one. It wasn’t good or bad. It was a confusing mix of both. It would go back and forth between scenes I loved and scenes I was really hoping would end sooner. The movie was so well cast.…

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  • No Hard Feelings

    No Hard Feelings

    ½

    This movie is just gross. 

    It’s literally just 2 hours of Jennifer Lawrence pressuring and manipulating a 19 year old into having sex with her when he clearly isn’t ready or comfortable and is actively saying no. Which maybe you could put in a movie if A) you didn’t treat it like it’s the kid who’s in the wrong for not giving consent  and B) you didn’t treat it like it’s the kid who’s in the wrong for not giving…

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★½

    Looks gorgeous. Is kind of a mess honestly. My expectations were admittedly unreasonably high but wow what a let down

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