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Review of Other People (2016)

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

At once the affair feels deeply personal - writer/director Chris Kelly adapts the story from events in his own life - and yet wildly broad…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

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

With Doctor Strange, Marvel pries open a doorway to a new realm, one filled with magic and mysticism, dark dimensions and malevolent deities…

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Review of Deepwater Horizon (2016)

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

Cinematographer Enrique Chediak captures the inferno from every angle, assigning it a fearsome quality, with the towering conflagration almost…

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Review of Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

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

An awesome rarity in that it's an excellent sequel to a truly horrible original…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

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

Like someone mashed Pacific Rim with Leaving Las Vegas, Vigalondo's screenplay is rarely clever…

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Review of The Archer (2017)

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

Weiss' budget restricts The Archer's action sequences to feeling sallow and slapdash, almost sad, with wide camera angles that only serve to…

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Review of Win It All (2017)

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

The balance between those two impulses - great human tragedy boiled into an almost Shakespearean comedy - is played with throughout and the…

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Review of Silence (2016)

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

Its complex message about faith and the faithful and Scorsese's powerful imagery sticks to your ribs but the actual watching of the thing is…

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Review of Moana (2016)

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

A different breed of classical animated film. She's a Disney princess...with some updates and some much-needed tweaks…

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Review of Wildlife (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 02 Nov 2018

Carey Mulligan has been confidently constructing a tasteful resume since her auspicious breakout ...but never has her light shined brighter…

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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

Transformers: The Last Knight isn't a movie…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

In the absence of substance is the mirage of art…

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Review of Flower (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

The best thing about Flowers, bar none, is Zoey Deutch…

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Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

Like a bowl of frozen soup - takes much too long to heat up…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

This is a film that pivots from quiet grief to sickening, nightmare-fuel imagery without ever losing an inch of ground-building tension…

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Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

A glossy war propaganda movie trojan horsed as a hero's journey…

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Review of Venom (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

An aimless, awful embarrassment for everyone involved, Venom imagines a world where a dopey Peter Parker-type was instead bitten by a radioactive…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

Moorhead and Benson have made yet another fascinating entry to their filmography, one that champions big ideas over numbing spectacle…

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Review of The Snowman (2017)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

A frigid disaster of a serial killer thriller, The Snowman does just about everything wrong…

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Review of Sweet Country (2018)

By Matt Oakes (180) for Silver Screen Riot (180) on 01 Nov 2018

Sexual and physical violence are symptoms of racial hierarchy and both are impressed upon Sam's family…

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