Silver Screen Riot
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Matt Oakes
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
B
Jackass Forever (2022)
It's a remarkable feat that all these years later, MTV's original confederacy of dunces still can withstand this level of pain.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
2
B
Hatching (2021)
This horror story of fowl play rules the roost.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
3
B-
Girl Picture (2022)
A thoughtfully constructed LGBTQ coming-of-age drama about three young women figuring out love, lust, and relationships as they teeter on the precipice of adulthood.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
4
B-
Blood (2022)
Juri is outstanding in the role, delivering a performance of great tenderness and depth.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
5
B+
After Yang (2022)
A stunningly beautiful, emotionally yearning science-fiction drama about what it means to be family.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
6
B+
God's Country (2022)
7
C
Alice (2022)
Part Blaxploitation film, part "secret slave" drama, 'Alice' is a second-rate jumble of moods and concepts that never quite coalesce.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
8
A-
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
An achingly romantic relationship movie that updates the bones of 'The Graduate' for the Zoomer generation.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
9
B
Dual (2022)
Like some books teach you how to read them, Dual teaches you how to watch it. At first, this can be jarring.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
10
B
11
A
Speak No Evil (2022)
Like frogs in a boiling pot of water, we don't know that we're cooked until it's much too late.
Posted Jan 22, 2022
12
A-
Watcher (2022)
'Watcher' perfects the stalker-thriller with a confident lead turn from Maika Monroe and refined, tension-wracked direction from Chloe Okuno.
Posted Jan 22, 2022
13
B
Klondike (2022)
Writer-director Maryna Er Gorbac complicates sparse scenes of domestic hopelessness with disconcerting action just out of focus in the backdrop.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
14
B
Fresh (2022)
A meat-cute that gives new meaning to the phrase "eating butt."
Posted Jan 21, 2022
15
A-
Emergency (2022)
A poignant, prescient ode to Black friendship, 'Emergency' is a killer dramedy from Carey Williams that explores the specter of a police encounter.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
16
B+
Scream (2022)
17
D-
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
A numbing retread of past Matrix antics fastened onto an exasperatingly dull attempt at a revival.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
18
B+
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
19
C
West Side Story (2021)
Handsomely made but emotionally flat, West Side Story plays like a slick, overproduced cover album.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
20
A
Red Rocket (2021)
Mikey is a bonehead, yes. And a scumbag. But for 120 minutes, he's our bonehead. Our scumbag.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
21
B-
Don't Look Up (2021)
That its satirical outlook tracks with our dystopian political reality is distressing, if not thoroughly funny.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
22
C
Being the Ricardos (2021)
After three directorial efforts, I think it's safe to say that Aaron Sorkin is a boring director.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
23
B
Nightmare Alley (2021)
24
A-
Sufficed to say, Sorrentino has created another great beauty.
Posted Nov 29, 2021
25
B-
House of Gucci (2021)
A funnier than expected but tedious tale of fashion-forward betrayal.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
26
B+
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Paul Thomas Anderson's loosest film to date, it moves with the chaotic energy of Inherent Vice and the flamboyant dream logic of Punch Drunk Love.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
27
C
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
28
A-
Encanto (2021)
A dazzling showstopper that proves that Disney is still capable of magic.
Posted Nov 15, 2021
29
A-
Spencer (2021)
30
C-
Eternals (2021)
Meant to be Shakespearean in tone but is too often blocked like Shakespeare in the Park.
Posted Oct 28, 2021
31
A-
Antlers (2021)
It's bleak as hell and never for a moment postures to be anything other than pure misery. There's no light at the end of the tunnel, just more tunnel.
Posted Oct 26, 2021
32
B+
Last Night in Soho (2021)
33
D+
The French Dispatch (2021)
Structured like a New Yorker zine and just as wryly smug and pandering to the self-proclaimed intelligentsia.
Posted Oct 19, 2021
34
A
Dune (2021)
35
C-
Halloween Kills (2021)
A shapeless brute already running on fumes.
Posted Oct 13, 2021
36
B
The Last Duel (2021)
37
B
Lamb (2021)
A thought-provoking curio that begs questions about humankind's need to command the natural world and their own lesser urges - and their inability to do so.
Posted Oct 6, 2021
38
A
Titane (2021)
Ducournau has crafted a genuinely thrilling body horror that defies expectation but never its own internal logic.
Posted Oct 3, 2021
39
C+
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
This is all nonsense, all the time, and everyone involved is finally on the same page as to how silly and stupid and fun this should be.
Posted Sep 30, 2021
40
C
No Time To Die (2021)
For a series that so often is defined by the willy antics of its antagonists, No Time to Die makes the gruesome mistake of saving the worst for last.
Posted Sep 29, 2021
41
B+
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
It's good to be back amongst such insufferably petty goombas.
Posted Sep 23, 2021
42
B
The Card Counter (2021)
Forgiveness is a mercy that The Card Counter rarely affords and the script - also from Schrader - explores the notion of a soul assumed to be irredeemable.
Posted Sep 9, 2021
43
B+
The Alpinist (2021)
Leclerc dangles above icy precipices with no safety net, pushing the boundaries of possibility in moments that are absolutely bewildering to behold.
Posted Sep 2, 2021
44
A-
Candyman (2021)
Candyman is scary, yes, but what it has to say about the unyielding cycle of Black trauma is doubly horrifying.
Posted Aug 25, 2021
45
B-
Marvel's first foray into the fantasy genre, drawing from traditional Chinese legends to create a visually-and tonally-distinct departure from previous origin endeavors.
Posted Aug 23, 2021
46
C-
Reminiscence (2021)
For a project with the potential to combine the likes of Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Reminiscence instead offers joyless forgettable nonsense.
Posted Aug 19, 2021
47
C+
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Surprisingly conventional for a comic book movie that weaponizes polka dots.
Posted Aug 4, 2021
48
B+
The Green Knight (2021)
49
C-
Jungle Cruise (2021)
One strains to track what exactly is happening and why they ought to be invested in it.
Posted Jul 29, 2021
50
A