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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The new film 'Golda' paints a picture of Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, played by Helen Mirren, during the Yom Kippur War. Despite the dramatic political backdrop during Meir's leadership, KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz said the movie rendition lacks both depth of character and plot. -
Returning to theaters after 20 years, the Korean film 'Oldboy' from director Park Chan-wook paints a violent picture of what redemption can mean in a 'disfigured society.' -
A new documentary called A Compassionate Spy is about a man little known in America, but who played a shocking role in the history of the world. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz the movie makes an important extension for Christopher Nolan鈥檚 Oppenheimer. -
Finally out, the new film Oppenheimer tells a story about the man who led the project to create the atom bomb. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says it鈥檚 become rare to see an expensive Hollywood movie of such deep moral complexity.
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A new film from France called "Scarlet" tells a story of a girl and her father in the years after World War I, when life can be hard and unsettled. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says "Scarlet" is hard to classify, which is good. -
A new political thriller examines a life of comfort disrupted under the rule of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The movie, Chile 鈥�76 from Manuela Martelli, is quiet 鈥� and for that reason, unnerving. -
In late 1985, 鈥淲oman-Ochre,鈥� a painting by abstract expressionist master Willem de Kooning was stolen from the University of Arizona Art Museum. Thirty-two years later, the painting turned up in a home in rural New Mexico. The new documentary "The Thief Collector" is about the thieves. -
French filmmaker Fran莽ois Ozon is the director of '8 Women,' 'Swimming Pool' and 'Frantz.' His 2021 film 'Everything Went Fine' is just opening in the United States. It鈥檚 a family story with an ailing father who wants to die. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, says that in Ozon鈥檚 best films, nothing is simple. -
The new movie 'Carmen' tells an old story. A story that鈥檚 been told over and over about unlucky lovers in a world that has no place for them and wants to do them in. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that in show-biz terms, the story has 鈥渓egs,鈥� and this new film feels current and vibrant. -
The new film 'Showing Up' is about a young clay sculptor getting ready for a show. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the movie is nothing like other movies about artists.
