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Review of Loving (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

For all the victories of Loving - all the tender, true moments and impressive, discreet thespian skill - it inspires one too many watch checks...Act…

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Review of Rules Don't Apply (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Though Rules Don't Apply is undeniably Beatty's show, the true breakout is lead Alden Ehrenreich…

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Review of Small Town Crime (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Through it all, Hawkes is a natural, stretching a scumbag grin a country mile, making his otherwise despicable Mike into an endearing and unlikely…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

An unmitigated juggernaut of bad, pointless cinema, The Great Wall is what happens when globalization and movie-making meets…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Burton's keen eye for imaginative landscapes lends Peregrine some much-needed visual pop ...but some of the big set pieces remain inexplicably…

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Review of Snowden (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

A biopic about a man of great courage with none of its own…

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Review of The Light of the Moon (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Through it all, Beatriz is magnificent, offering a textured performance that throttles between grief, denial, strength, anger, always using…

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Review of The Magnificent Seven (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

There's nothing on the screen to suggest that this remake of The Magnificent Seven actually needed making…

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Review of Goat (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Goat harrowingly explores the hypocrisy of fraternal brotherhood, bearing witness to the ugly rights of passage that men must submit to into…

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Review of Yoga Hosers (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

When an ancient army of foot-long Nazi sausage clones, called Bratzis, begins to attack their small Canadian town, two girls must put down…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Pairs David Cronenberg to Shutter Island, adding a dash of Looney Toons to cherry-top this fantastical madcap chamber piece…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

In part a response to Stanley Kubrick's heady masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey and equally a dissection of current world politics, Arrival…

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Review of Split (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

In addition to being a platform for James McAvoy to display his considerable range in truly zany fashion, Split represents the once fallen…

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Review of xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

A gratuitous bukake of bullets, boobies and brain death... See it with friends, preferably intoxicated…

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Review of Game of Death (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Fountains of blood and questionable millennials populate Laurence Morais and Sebastien Landry's campy Game of Death, a slick and uproarious…

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Review of Fences (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

As purely a thespian venture, the Denzel Washington starring and directed Fences is an applaudable homer…

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Review of Christine (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

Takes a look at infamous Sarasota reporter Christine Chubbuck and her struggle with depression in sad, sanguine, cinematic streaks…

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Review of Bleed for This (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

May not be one that goes down in history as a boxing great but with a knockout performance from star Miles Teller and plenty of heart and good…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

The script, also from Mills, borders on braggadocio at times. Like Abbie, it's all a touch too smug, a hint too clever, a punch too superior…

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Review of Sully (2016)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 05 Nov 2018

In telling the story of the Miracle on the Hudson, Eastwood examines the various repercussions and characters surrounding the event as if -…

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