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…
A dazzlingly rendered musical masterpiece, 'La La Land' is an unseasonably joyous throwback that marries the best elements of Golden Age Hollywood to the best elements of modern cinema. Splendidly…
‘Manchester By the Sea’ is a thoughtfully rendered, grief-loaded New England character study salt-washed in bathos and poised to break hearts. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan masterful commands the drama while Casey…
Synopsis: “Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford), a woodcarver, delights local children with stories of a mysterious dragon that lives deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. His daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) believes these are just tall tales, until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley), a 10-year-old orphan who says he lives in the woods with...