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FILM REVIEWS · FEATURES · FESTIVALS · INTERVIEWS Tuesday, April 28, 2026
SILVER SCREEN RIOT
Probably hates your favorite movie. Since 2012.

AUTHOR: <SPAN>MATT OAKES</SPAN>

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD’

Out in Theaters: ‘KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD’

Brassy and bold in spirit but a hot mess in execution, ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ suffers middling special effects, a more-boring-than-it-should-be plot and mostly lame, forgettable characters but…

INTERVIEW
Talking with Sarah Adina Smith of ‘BUSTER’S MAL HEART’

Talking with Sarah Adina Smith of ‘BUSTER’S MAL HEART’

In Buster’s Mal Heart, Rami Maleck plays a man at war. Struggling to overcome bad wiring, Rami’s “Buster” (or Jonah as he’s called in earlier memories) is a fractured individual in the throes of a crisis of faith and self. Writer and director Sarah Adina Smith cleverly skirts objectivity, opting for storytelling that operates in...

FESTIVAL
The 5 SIFF ’17 Good to Great Movies We’ve Already Seen

The 5 SIFF ’17 Good to Great Movies We’ve Already Seen

It’s nothing short of ironic that the 5 films featured in SIFF ’17 that I’ve already seen, I haven’t actually written anything about yet. So, in hopes of getting you all up to speed on as many of the SIFF features as possible, I’ll fill you in on the likes of those that I’ve already...

FESTIVAL
The 8 SIFF ’17 Films We’re Dying to See

The 8 SIFF ’17 Films We’re Dying to See

As is always the case, gazing upon the list of 400 entires to the Seattle International Film Festival can be daunting for even the most knowledgable of cinephiles. Cutting through that list to cull a selection of desirables is an unwieldy task that demands more research than should be dedicated to a pleasure activity but...

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘ANOTHER EVIL’

Out in Theaters: ‘ANOTHER EVIL’

  Steve Zissis and Mark Proksch achieve strong comedic effect as bumbling daywalkers haphazardly conjoined to expel evil forces from a family summer home, giving us an infrequently uproarious, mostly…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘BELOW HER MOUTH’

Out in Theaters: ‘BELOW HER MOUTH’

‘Below Her Mouth’ is an epically poor lesbian romance complete with shamefully terrible acting, an embarrassing script and way more than one gratuitous sex scene. Yes, there's a lot of…

INTERVIEW
Talking With Veronica Ferres of ‘SALT AND FIRE’

Talking With Veronica Ferres of ‘SALT AND FIRE’

From the Peruvian rainforest to the Katmai Alaskan Wilderness, the depths of the Chauvet caves of Southern France to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, Werner Herzog is a journeyman who has long questioned man’s relationship with nature. In Salt and Fire, Herzog takes us to Bolivia’s sprawling Salar de Uyuni, the worst’s largest salt flat. A desolate beauty of biblical proportion, here transpires...

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘GHOST IN THE SHELL’

Out in Theaters: ‘GHOST IN THE SHELL’

‘Ghost in the Shell’ is all shell, no soul. This vapid, mopey, effects-driven, entirely predictable action-thriller haunts audiences with dazzling special effects, hoping to cover up a substance-bereft narrative that leaves…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘RAW’

Out in Theaters: ‘RAW’

Make no mistake, 'Raw' will prove difficult to swallow for most, what with its unblinking depiction of human-on-human consumption, but those with a stomach of steel will be treated to…