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By Michael D. Reid (31) for Victoria Times Colonist (B.C., Canada) (31) on 11 Mar 2015

It's a pity the film's more shocking developments weren't matched by greater insight, plausibility and satire…

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By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 05 Oct 2014

Posh will certainly reinforce a certain male stereotype in the national psyche…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 25 Sep 2014

The Riot Club slightly labours its point but does many of the simple things well…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 21 Sep 2014

The performances of the young cast are committedly brittle, especially Ben Schnetzer playing the antithesis of his Tory-baiting role in Pride…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 19 Sep 2014

The Riot Club can't always transcend its theatrical origins, but there's a nasty sting lurking under all those high spirits and all these pretty…

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By Terry Staunton (141) for Radio Times (2,421) on 18 Sep 2014

The ensemble cast works well together, with special mention going to Douglas Booth as the charismatic centre of the club, but the escalating…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 18 Sep 2014

The Danish director Lone Scherfig does a fair job of conveying the brutishness of her protagonists, their sense of entitlement and their vicious…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 18 Sep 2014

An occasionally fun, but grotesquely caricatured and ultimately flawed mockery of the upper-classes…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 18 Sep 2014

It's almost as if the film has been designed to make fans of Downton Abbey realise the error of their ways…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 17 Sep 2014

One can hardly argue with the film's thunderous message - that ours is still far from a classless society, and that family connections will…

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By Caroline Jowett (26) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 17 Sep 2014

Laura Wade's 2010 play Posh offered a fictionalised account of Oxford's Bullingdon Club and it has now been transformed into an enjoyable film…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 17 Sep 2014

Hooray for a good old-fashioned rich-bastard bashing. But they get the last laugh: These guys are the future masters of the universe. Hooray…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 17 Sep 2014

It's a sharp satirical cartoon of English class warfare and class conspiracy - though it fudges a final point of plot-jeopardy and I suspect…

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By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 17 Sep 2014

Laura Wade’s adaptation of her hit play, Posh, has sacrificed much of its savage comedy en route to the screen, and while the dark drama…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 15 Sep 2014

Could be called THE WOLF OF WALL STREET: THE OXFORD YEARS…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Sep 2014

Wade’s dialogue is totally convincing, all in-jokes and boarding school banter…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 14 Sep 2014

Adapting her own savagely funny play Posh, Laura Wade betters it by adding an additional female presence (Holliday Grainger) who sees these…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 14 Sep 2014

It might at first seem like a comedy but, with its mounting horrors and nod to those currently in charge, sadly it's clear that the joke is on us…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 14 Sep 2014

An effective and shrewdly observed satire, with a handful of standout performances and a gloriously bitter sting in the tail…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 10 Sep 2014

Lone Scherfig's limp state-of-the-nation address is powered solely by grotesque stereotypes…

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