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Silver Screen Riot

Silver Screen Riot is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Matt Oakes.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
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The Invite (2026) Matt Oakes ‘The Invite’ from Olivia Wilde is a wildly funny swinger comedy that explores how relationships open, close, and end in hilarious and heartfelt ways.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Frank & Louis (2026) Matt Oakes The performances from Ben-Adir and Morgan power Frank & Louis’ emotional core. Both deliver outstanding turns, but it’s their shared chemistry that really makes Volpe’s film sing.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Union County (2026) Matt Oakes An observant drama about the victims of addiction and the grueling road to recovery that admirably focuses on the people behind the statistics.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Matt Oakes The implication is obvious: the nuisance isn’t the bear.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Josephine (2026) Matt Oakes A feel-bad movie about the downstream effects of trauma on someone too young to intellectualize what they’ve witnessed.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Incomer (2026) Matt Oakes A strange little gem powered by plenty of heartfelt laughs and feral charm.
Posted Feb 01, 2026  Edit critic review
A
undertone (2025) Matt Oakes A masterfully assembled nightmare of all-encompassing horror, Ian Tucson’s ‘Undertone‘ is as immersive as it is bone chilling, featuring truly elite sound design.
Posted Jan 31, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
The Musical (2026) Matt Oakes As a laughs-per-capita comedy, and as a showcase for a bracing new comedic voice, The Musical is one of the funniest films I have seen in years.
Posted Jan 31, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
The Gallerist (2026) Matt Oakes It’s all in service of a very mild, unfunny critique: that the art world is phony, if not outright felonious.
Posted Jan 31, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Rock Springs (2026) Matt Oakes It swings for something personal and haunted and culturally resonant. It may not all be perfect, but it’s far from disposable.
Posted Jan 31, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Weight (2026) Matt Oakes A film that drapes a muscular, objective-driven plot over lush period-piece trappings.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
See You When I See You (2026) Matt Oakes Tragedy and comedy aren’t just coexisting here, their comorbidities elevate one another.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Matt Oakes When it breaks out in spontaneous dance or traps Ha-Chan in an impossibly awkward situation, it’s impossible to ignore its intoxicating effect.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
How to Divorce During the War (2026) Matt Oakes A powerful kitchen table drama that uses the backdrop of the Ukraine-Russia war to explore the quieter war of domestic selfishness.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Time and Water (2026) Matt Oakes Moves at the pace of a glacier, and unfortunately feels just as cold. Sara Dosa’s anticipated follow-up to ‘Fire of Love’ is ultimately a major snooze about ice loss that struggles to thaw.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Night Nurse (2026) Matt Oakes There’s a Lynchian undercurrent here, but the deadpan line readings and bizarre physicality also nod toward The Room more than Mulholland Drive.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B
If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) Matt Oakes In its best moments, the work is reminiscent of Barry Jenkins, marking Thompson-Hernández as someone to keep a close eye on.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) Matt Oakes A resounding reminder that the good of a nation’s citizens can outweigh the villainy of their governments.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Hold Onto Me (2026) Matt Oakes A richly satisfying, slow-burn coming-of-age journey that thrives on its understated aura and emotionally resonant performances.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Sentient (2026) Matt Oakes It’s soul-rattling stuff, enough to make any viewer wonder: how far are we willing to go, and what are we willing to become, in the name of "bettering" the human race?
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Take Me Home (2026) Matt Oakes It’s a work made with palpable care, one that honors the disabled community not through platitudes, but through realism rooted in experience.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Send Help (2026) Matt Oakes Dylan O’Brien is a convincingly smug douche, while Rachel McAdams is electrifying as the dangerously capable femme fatale.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Seized (2026) Matt Oakes A poignant examination of how the First Amendment can be trampled – and how to fight back.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Shame and Money (2026) Matt Oakes Kabashi guides the film to its powerful conclusion, turning this low-simmering character drama into a potent screed against the humiliation embedded in survival-driven labor.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Tell Me Everything (2026) Matt Oakes A father-son drama that aches with unspoken tenderness, ‘Tell Me Everything’ finds what it means to lose a father, and what it takes to face him again.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
All About the Money (2026) Matt Oakes An alarming, hypnotic documentary about a radical, asshole 0.01%-er and the short-lived "revolutionary" lifestyle he bankrolls, only to run away when his interests shift, leaving others to carry the consequences.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Big Girls Don't Cry (2026) Matt Oakes A tender and intimate New Zealand coming-of-age story circa 2006, following a young girl navigating where she belongs when she doesn’t quite fit anywhere, all while entering the early stages of queer self-discovery.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Silenced (2026) Matt Oakes The sad, single, indisputable fact seems to remain true: even in the aftermath of #MeToo, we as a society do not care about the stories of survivors of sexual assault.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) Matt Oakes Low-budget B-movie schlock, indebted to Troma and early Peter Jackson.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
American Doctor (2026) Matt Oakes American Doctor’ is not easy to watch, and it shouldn’t be. The images are gruesome. The message is clear. The outrage is palpable.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
One in a Million (2026) Matt Oakes A powerful portrait of the refugee experience and the challenges of assimilation.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Closure (2026) Matt Oakes Staggering, philosophical, and deeply cinematic, ‘Closure’ is an overwhelming meditation on life, death, and man’s search for meaning.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Lake (2026) Matt Oakes For those looking to better understand this specific issue and the lived reality of its impact, The Lake delivers a clear-eyed and necessary perspective.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) Matt Oakes There is a sharp self-reflexivity as the film questions the ethics of documenting extreme trauma and the way death is quietly repackaged as narrative.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
B
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Matt Oakes Nia DaCosta proves a steady hand in continuing the 28 Years Later story, this time framing it as an ideological battle between two opposing forces: Ralph Fiennes’ atheist humanist Dr. Kelso and Jack O’Connell’s sadistic satanist Jimmy.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Primate (2025) Matt Oakes This is not a movie interested in restraint. The R rating will be earned. The kills will be graphic. There will be blood.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Housemaid (2025) Matt Oakes Unleashes Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar to upper-crust suburban mania to keep the cheap thrills coming fast and loose.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Matt Oakes James Cameron is too good of a director to spend the rest of his career trapped in Pandora. Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third of five planned installments, may be the most unequivocal waste of time and talent in any major motion picture this century.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Is This Thing On? (2025) Matt Oakes Will Arnett erupts onto the screen as a real dramatic actor in Bradley Cooper’s thoughtfully funny ‘Is This Thing On?’, a midlife crisis story that tackles themes of commitment and purpose with striking clarity.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
No Other Choice (2025) Matt Oakes A searing South Korean social satire about the accelerating impossibilities of employment in 2025, No Other Choice doesn’t give an inch.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Marty Supreme (2025) Matt Oakes While 'Marty Supreme' is ostensibly a movie about a delusional ping-pong champion, it’s equally a journeyman’s movie about mischief, mayhem, and grifting.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Eternity (2025) Matt Oakes Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner aren’t the problem but ‘Eternity’ is standard-issue love triangle fare, just dressed up to look like something more.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Zootopia 2 (2025) Matt Oakes Funny, heartwarming, and thematically potent, ‘Zootopia 2′ is one of the better animated movies of the decade.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Hamnet (2025) Matt Oakes A profoundly moving portrait of family, tragedy, and how art binds us, ‘Hamnet’ is a stunning return to form for director Chloé Zhao, boasting one of the year’s best performances from Jessie Buckley and sure to leave you emotionally hammered.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Matt Oakes These movies come with a high floor and a somewhat low ceiling. They’re reliably entertaining and immaculately constructed, yet rarely linger.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Die My Love (2025) Matt Oakes Lawrence gives a fierce, full-body performance; unflinching and raw, even when the script leaves her mostly stranded to just explode on camera.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Predator: Badlands (2025) Matt Oakes The action in Badlands is crisp, brutal, and shot with real clarity as are its stash of high-tech weaponry and various beasts to slay, but what makes these elements stand out is how seamlessly they all serve the story.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Bugonia (2025) Matt Oakes Bugonia may be a remake, but it’s still infused with vivid originality and alive with possibility.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Frankenstein (2025) Matt Oakes After decades spent riffing on creation myths and weaving stories of the macabre and supernatural, del Toro's version of Frankenstein, for all its sumptuous production and undeniable cinematic majesty, feels a bit, well, Frankensteined together.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Black Phone 2 (2025) Matt Oakes A cold horror movie in more ways than one, ‘Black Phone 2’ is disturbing in flashes and occasionally satisfying, with a standout turn from Madeline McGraw. But its sluggish pacing and lack of genuine scares make this a call you don’t need to answer.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
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