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’s College of Arts & Media.
He has been reviewing films on public radio since 1976 (first review: Robert Altman’s 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 movie 'Priscilla' from director Sofia Coppola is about the teenager who married Elvis Presley. In the film, Presley looks like a predator — not the great rock ‘n’ 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.
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Although the film Between Two Worlds came out in France in 2021, it’s just recently come out in the United States, mostly on various screening platforms. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that while it’s too bad the movie hasn’t hit a Colorado movie screen, any chance to see it is worthwhile.
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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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’s Oppenheimer.
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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’s 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.
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A new political thriller examines a life of comfort disrupted under the rule of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The movie, Chile ’76 from Manuela Martelli, is quiet — and for that reason, unnerving.
