Seattle, WA – Barry Jenkins’ groundbreaking drama Moonlight was the big winner with Seattle’s film critics community, winning 6 Seattle Film Awards including Best Picture. In addition to winning the biggest prize as selected by the Seattle Film Critics Society, Jenkins was named Best Director and his screenplay, co-written with Tarell Alvin McCraney, earned Best Screenplay honors....
Martin Scorsese’s infatuation with his Christian faith makes for a visually suggestive and provocative piece of historical fiction however at 161 minutes, 'Silence' is epic only in its ability to…
Now that we’ve gone ahead and declared our Top Ten Films of 2016 as well as our Ten Favorite Horror Movies of the Year, it’s time to get into the particulars and hand out some superlatives for other “Bests” of the year. Here we celebrate the best performances of the year, the finest directing, our...
2016. What a year. As rock ‘n’ roll gods and Princess Leia were smote from the surface of the earth, Trump and Suicide Squad and the Zika virus emerged. But through the muck and the mire emerged a slew of films that rocked socks and reminded us that the movie theater is more often than...
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis (and the rest of the cast) are simply outstanding in the powerfully acted and supremely written 'Fences', a 1950s melodrama about a struggling African American…
Frequently unfunny, offensively unoriginal and downright grating, this teaming of great character actor Bryan Cranston and can-do-it-all performer James Franco breaks a different kind of bad, scrubbing free the charm…
In addition to providing a platform for Natalie Portman to display her considerable talents, 'Jackie' is a terrific and multifaceted portrait of a layered American icon. Gloomy, textured and terrifically…
There's no getting around it, 'Rogue One'’s clunky script leaves something to be desired but wowing visual glamor, classic Star Wars feel, a darker nature and that killer third act…
It’s that time of year. Christmas music infects our radios, capitalism runs rampant and industry insiders rush to be the first to publish their official Top Ten lists. While we at Silver Screen Riot are not racing to the finish line before we’ve seen the likes of Rogue One, Martin Scorsese’s Silence or a number...
Forgettable 'Office Christmas Party' is much funnier when its flat set of leads allow the secondary characters (i.e. Kate McKinnon) to take the spotlight, and though there's a shortage of…