Howie Movshovitz
Film CriticHowie Movshovitz came to Colorado in 1966 as a VISTA Volunteer and never wanted to leave. After three years in VISTA, he went to graduate school at CU-Boulder and got a PhD in English, focusing on the literature of the Middle Ages.
In the middle of that process, though (and he still loves that literature) he got sidetracked into movies, made three shorts, started writing film criticism and wound up teaching film at the University of Colorado-Denver. He continues to teach in UCD鈥檚 College of Arts & Media.
He has been reviewing films on public radio since 1976 (first review: Robert Altman鈥檚 Buffalo Bill and the Indians). Along the way he spent nine years as the film critic of The Denver Post, and has been contributing features on film subjects to NPR since 1987.
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Richard Linklater is not one of the superstar filmmakers, but since 1988, he鈥檚 made 35 movies. He鈥檚 one of the key independent filmmakers of the 1990s who鈥檚 still doing significant work now. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, Linklater鈥檚 unobtrusive style has never been so powerful as in his new picture Hit Man, about someone who鈥檚 not exactly what he seems 鈥� or maybe he is. -
The new movie Humane from Caitlin Cronenberg is a brave effort to create a horror film based in modern climate woes. It's compelling at the start but fails to maintain depth as the movie winds on. -
In 1975, just months before the celebration of the American bicentennial, Robert Altman released his film Nashville. At the time, it was taken as a provocative statement about this country. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the reactions of his students indicate this 49-year-old movie still holds its power. -
The 28th Denver Jewish Film Festival opens on March 9 with eight days of films and events relating to Jewish life and the Jewish experience rooted in the present and the past. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the festival takes on particular importance amid a time of rising anti-Semitism and conflict. -
The title of the new film by Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest, is a bland Nazi designation for the area surrounding the Auschwitz concentration and death camps during World War II. The movie comes from a novel by Martin Amis, and KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz calls the movie utterly chilling. -
The new film Ferrari imagines the larger-than-life figure of Enzo Ferrari, the one-time race driver and then head of the company that built the cars famous for speed, elegance and expense. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that it鈥檚 a jumbled movie of mixed tones 鈥� and that may be the point. -
The new movie 'Priscilla' from director Sofia Coppola is about the teenager who married Elvis Presley. In the film, Presley looks like a predator 鈥� not the great rock 鈥榥鈥� roll singer. -
The 46th Denver Film Festival includes over a hundred features and 75 shorts in the mix. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz comments on three of them. -
Although the film Between Two Worlds came out in France in 2021, it鈥檚 just recently come out in the United States, mostly on various screening platforms. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that while it鈥檚 too bad the movie hasn鈥檛 hit a Colorado movie screen, any chance to see it is worthwhile. -
By design, Telluride forces viewers to make choices over which films to view during the festival. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz said, of the films he watched during the festival, at least two new pictures had 'stunning power.'