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Broad Street Review

Broad Street Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Angela L. Harmon, Stephen Silver.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
All God's Children (2024) Stephen Silver There are real and undeniable tensions, which the film, to its credit, doesn’t sugarcoat at all.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Fantasy Life (2025) Stephen Silver Shear’s protagonist is, by far, the least interesting character in the movie. I was much more interested in the arc of Peet’s character
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Stephen Silver It’s got a lot of the virtues of the earlier films, outstanding performances and witty dialogue, although this time, the plotting isn’t nearly as tight.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Threesome (2025) Stephen Silver Has a plot that seems lifted from a mumblecore film from 2007, but the soul of an older, more screwball-ish rom-com.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Stephen Silver Robinson more than capably carries the film, as a guy who’s certainly weird, but endearing enough that we don’t turn against him completely.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Stephen Silver Another stylized story from the margins of Americana by Sean Baker.Think of it as Pretty Woman, if the Richard Gere character had been a 21-year-old drunken idiot.
Posted Oct 27, 2024  Edit critic review
September 5 (2024) Stephen Silver The film manages to keep the tension up for 90 minutes, even if you know going in exactly how it turned out.
Posted Oct 27, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Stephen Silver A film with a striking visual palette, fantastic music, a pair of breakthrough performances, and things to say about a wide variety of subjects, from sexual identity to how people engage with the popular culture of their youth
Posted Apr 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Idea of You (2024) Stephen Silver Primarily works for a simple reason: Anne Hathaway is exceptionally great at romcoms
Posted Apr 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
In a Violent Nature (2024) Stephen Silver An homage to past movies with a singular madman, most notably the Friday the 13th series, with one key difference
Posted Apr 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Remembering Gene Wilder (2023) Stephen Silver A hugely enjoyable walk through Wilder’s entire life and career. And who didn't love Gene Wilder?
Posted Nov 17, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
American Fiction (2023) Stephen Silver A sharp satire that both draws real blood and is very, very funny
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Stand Up & Shout: Songs From a Philly High School (2023) Stephen Silver An inspiring movie about joy and the power of music.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Sisu (2022) Stephen Silver A gritty, beautifully photographed story of a solitary gold prospector who fights a battalion of Nazis and triumphs, both gloriously and very violently.
Posted Apr 24, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Polite Society (2023) Stephen Silver An audacious work combining the influence of several genres and succeeding at all of them.
Posted Apr 24, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Somewhere in Queens (2022) Stephen Silver Romano's directorial debut is a misfire, featuring Italian-American stereotyping, contrived plotting, and a major character who is a nonentity.
Posted Apr 24, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
America (2022) Stephen Silver This emotionally satisfying film is something of an untraditional love triangle
Posted Nov 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Radiant Girl (2021) Stephen Silver The compelling story, essentially, of a Jewish theater girl in Nazi-occupied France, in 1942.
Posted Nov 21, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Karaoke (2022) Stephen Silver A movie with a fascinating story to tell about an ordinary couple.
Posted Nov 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Armageddon Time (2022) Stephen Silver I wasn't particularly wild about this film—that is, until it arrives at an ending that hits like a gut punch.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Stephen Silver While the film goes in some extremely dark directions, it's also frequently very funny, although it did leave me a bit cold.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Decision to Leave (2022) Stephen Silver Features two amazing performances, and is loaded with beautiful shots.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Hustle (2022) Stephen Silver While the story is a bit disjointed, it’s a well-made, entertaining, and crowd-pleasing effort that uses Philadelphia well.
Posted Jun 16, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) Stephen Silver A very modern, forward, and entertaining treatment of a subject the movies have more often than not been too squeamish to address: older women’s sexuality.
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
The Phantom of the Open (2021) Stephen Silver Joins Eddie the Eagle in the small, possible future Netflix category of "movies about real-life British athletes who were notably bad at their sport but got to compete at a high level anyway."
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Stephen Silver The conceit gives the movie major stakes, and the payoff is glorious (and also likely to lead to lots of tears).
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Stephen Silver On paper, the film seems very much cliched, but Raiff offers a unique voice, and the vibe of is always positive
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
We Feed People (2022) Stephen Silver We get a fascinating picture of Andrés, depicted as a huge personality who's likely used to bossing people around in restaurant kitchens.
Posted Apr 08, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Belfast (2021) Stephen Silver The best film Branagh has directed in years, but not quite at the level of the film it's obviously aping, Roma.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Storm Lake (2021) Stephen Silver Not much of what Storm Lake has to stay about the plight of newspapers is particularly new at this point, but Art Cullen proves a fantastic documentary protagonist
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Becoming Cousteau (2021) Stephen Silver Not a pure hagiography, but a fairly straightforward telling of Cousteau's life and career.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Many Saints of Newark (2021) Stephen Silver The style and look are right, and while the writing isn't quite as sharp as on the show, it creates compelling characters, and the story arcs are true to the series, even echoing it at various points
Posted Oct 14, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Meaning of Hitler (2020) Stephen Silver An illuminating look at the legacy of the 20th century's greatest villain
Posted Jun 22, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Swan Song (2021) Stephen Silver A fine film and gorgeous character study, featuring one of the best turns of Udo Kier's career
Posted Jun 22, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Concrete Cowboy (2020) Stephen Silver A compelling and beautifully rendered look at the subculture of Black horsemanship in North Philadelphia
Posted Apr 16, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Inheritance (2020) Stephen Silver A worthwhile and often exhilarating examination of decades of Black intellectual and artistic tradition.
Posted Mar 24, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Nomadland (2020) Stephen Silver A gorgeous film about a little-known subculture.
Posted Oct 26, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
(undefined) Stephen Silver Even more than classical music, Plucked is about the fascinating dichotomy of a city where there are both elite cultural institutions and vast swaths of deep hopelessness.
Posted Nov 04, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Waldo on Weed (2019) Stephen Silver An uncommonly sweet documentary about a uniquely Philly character and his very special son.
Posted Nov 04, 2019  Edit critic review
4/5
The Human Factor (2019) Stephen Silver This fascinating film is another one about men filled with regret over having come close to peace, but fallen heartbreakingly short
Posted Nov 04, 2019  Edit critic review
3/5
Just Mercy (2019) Stephen Silver A watchable, entertaining treatment of an important true story, though it comes from a very familiar genre and doesn't do much to transcend it.
Posted Oct 21, 2019  Edit critic review
5/5
Parasite (2019) Stephen Silver It's an ingenious satire of class that goes to some shockingly dark places. But it's also so, SO funny, finding humor in all sorts of places that the movies rarely do
Posted Oct 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Captain Fantastic (2016) Angela L. Harmon Captain Fantastic strives to be stoic and offbeat, but is too stubborn in attitude and too lacking in charisma to defend its stance.
Posted Dec 12, 2018  Edit critic review
The Witch (2015) Angela L. Harmon The Witch creates a world that feels stifling and claustrophobic, even though it's set in an open land with no one else around for miles.
Posted Nov 16, 2018  Edit critic review
The Lobster (2015) Angela L. Harmon The Lobster knows what it's saying and is confident in its execution.
Posted Nov 16, 2018  Edit critic review
0/5
Gotti (2018) Stephen Silver By treating its murderous subject as an unambiguous hero, it does what gangster films have been falsely accused of doing for decades: glorifying mobsters (Broad Street Review)
Posted Jul 12, 2018  Edit critic review
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