Fred Rowson
Fred Rowson has been reviewing films for New Humanist since January 2009. He is currently studying English at Cambridge University, where he has also written as a film critic for Varsity and the Cambridge Student, and directed three short films.
Articles by Fred Rowson
Film review: Prometheus
Beyond the slick production and big-budget hype, is Prometheus the philosophical blockbuster that was promised? Fred Rowson wonders what to believe
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Film review: The Tree of Life
Terence Malik’s fifth film could do with a dose of Dirty Harry says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Hereafter
In taking on the afterlife, Clint Eastwood delivers a trite ghost story that is desperate to be taken seriously, finds Fred Rowson
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Film review: Of Gods and Men
This depiction of the last days of seven monks murdered by extremists has been widely celebrated, but its questionable take on Christian devotion is ultimately dissatisfying, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Eat Pray Love
Fred Rowson peers into the abyss
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Film review: The Last Exorcism
This horror mockumentary is both charming and frightening, says Fred Rowson. But didn't somebody already do an exorcism movie?
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Film review: Inception
Christopher Nolan has created a rare thing – an intelligent summer blockbuster. If only the details were as inspiring as the ideas, says Fred Rowson
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Call of the wild
The useless, the tragic, the deranged. Herzog’s subject is always the human, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Lourdes
Behind its restrained seriousness, this dramatisation of a disabled woman's pilgrimage has a vicious sense of humour, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Four Lions
A film that laughs at suicide bombers but doesn't offend anyone? Chris Morris's big screen debut is the mouse that didn't roar, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Shutter Island
There's nothing wrong with pulp but why has Scorsese dressed it up with technique, asks Fred Rowson
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Film review: The Book of Eli & The Road
Fred Rowson tours the wasted landscape of two new versions of the end of the world
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Film review: Up
It's not quite Paradise Lost, but Pixar's latest is still a beautiful, three-dimensional, mess, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Inglourious Basterds
This World War Two revenge tale is lazy and idiotic, yet has moments of true brilliance. Could the real problem be Tarantino himself? asks Fred Rowson
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Film review: Brüno
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest has its flaws. But it's still hilarious, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Angels & Demons
Could the latest Dan Brown blockbuster be the best film of the year so far? asks Fred Rowson
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Film review: Synecdoche, New York
Fred Rowson is fascinated and frustrated by Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut
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Film review: Let The Right One In
Sad, funny and frightening – this Swedish horror is not to be missed, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Religulous
Debunking faith on screen is a confused business, finds Fred Rowson
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Film review: Knowing
Sci-fi action and apocalyptic religion just don't mix, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood's latest is grating and out of tune, in all the right ways finds Fred Rowson
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Film review: Watchmen
Heard this comic book adaptation is bad? You don't know the half of it, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: The Class
This acclaimed story of a year in a Paris classroom captures school life brilliantly, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
A return to form for Woody Allen? Think again, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Milk
Sean Penn deserves his Oscar, but this biopic of America's first gay politician mostly plays it safe, says Fred Rowson
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Film review: Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle's feelgood Oscar-winner lacks the depth to be a true classic, says Fred Rowson
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Film Review: Revolutionary Road
It's twelve years since Winslet and DiCaprio last shared a screen. And that's not long enough, finds Fred Rowson
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Film Review: The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke's ageing grappler is compelling, but distant says Fred Rowson
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