Stephen Silver

I reviewed five more from #PFF35- THE DEBUT, ELSINORE, WILD HORSE NINE, RAY GUNN and MOUSE stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-debut-...

Here's my latest Broad Street Review repertory preview, including Fathom's 50th anniversary ROCKY re-release, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL at BMFI, Noir City at Ambler, and BOOGIE NIGHTS in 70mm at Film Society Center www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...

It's... also not particularly novel for Americans who DO follow this sort of thing to be happy when autocrats in other countries are defeated? I'm just barely old enough to recall the ouster of Pinochet being broadly celebrated in international coverage as a victory for human rights & democracy.

I reviewed five movies from #PFF35- BUNKER, JOY WILL PREVAIL, TENDER LOVING CARE, INK, and VICTORIAN PSYCHO stephensilver.substack.com/p/philadelph...

I reviewed A TALENT FOR MURDER, a #PFF35 film, for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about why it’s too early to complain about the Oscars, why making fun of DIGGER isn’t bullying, that embargo stuff, Star Wars and the NFL, #PFF35, and much more stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-its-wa...

Ali Boomaye! I wrote about 30 years of WHEN WE WERE KINGS, the best of the hundreds of movies that have been made about Muhammad Ali stephensilver.substack.com/p/when-we-we...

I reviewed five #PFF35 documentaries: THE LAST CRITIC, WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS, FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE, WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH?, and NUISANCE BEAR stephensilver.substack.com/p/documentar...

For JTA, I wrote about the fascinating new documentary TO KILL A NAZI. It's the only film about a Nazi hunter-turned-hero of the raid on Entebbe to be narrated by George Costanza www.jta.org/2026/10/20/c...

My first reviews from #PFF35 are for Broad Street Review: Opening night film THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK and LA BOLA NEGRA www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/the-...

I reviewed two features from #PFF35: BEHEMOTH! and FATHERLAND! stephensilver.substack.com/p/two-featur...

I offer 20 Week 2 thoughts on YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING stephensilver.substack.com/p/20-thought...

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about Shane Gillis, comedy, cancel culture, Antiwoke 1, Kyle MacLachlan’s book, the CCDA nominations, the return of Girls, the passing of Jim Knipfel, and more stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-shane-...

I’m the guy who does his jawb, you must be the other guy, and I wrote about 20 years of THE DEPARTED stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-depart...

For Splice Today, I reviewed WHALEFALL, a riff on the Book of Jonah in which the moral is that your dad was always right www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I reviewed YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, which is as crazy as you’ve heard stephensilver.substack.com/p/you-can-se...

I reviewed the outstanding YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER stephensilver.substack.com/p/your-mothe...

The CCA documentary nominations are out www.criticschoice.com/nominations-...

I reviewed five documentaries that were at NYFF (and are coming to PFF): MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART II, 14th, NAZA, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, and MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE stephensilver.substack.com/p/documentar...

Wawa succeeds because it mimics the hunter-gatherer experience. You don't shop there, you forage. And surviving the parking lot recreates the dangers of hunting a saber-toothed tiger with a spear.

DHS raid on Rep. Omar is a great example of very bad by rule-of-law democracy standards, pretty good by consolidated authoritarianism standards. Deeply wrong, with lies, bigotry, harassment, abuse of power. AND a sign of weakness, limited capacity, failure to make the dictatorship of their dreams.

I previewed #PFF35, and the ten movies I'm most looking forward to stephensilver.substack.com/p/35th-phila...

I reviewed ANIMALS, which I found mediocre but not the world-historical disaster that everyone else judged it as for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

Fox News quoted my SOCIAL RECKONING review www.foxnews.com/media/anti-z...

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about DIGGER flopping, the #PFF35 lineup, why David Ellison might not be MAGA, Jim Bakker's cinema, and more. stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-a-few-... @philafcc @OFCS

NEW PODCAST: On the latest Film Scribes, @stephensilver.bsky.social @heimlich.bsky.social @dantabor.bsky.social and @filmbuffrich.bsky.social talk VERITY, PRIMETIME and DIGGER filmscribes.libsyn.com/the-film-scr...

I wrote about the Wachowskis' debut BOUND, which came out 30 years ago this week stephensilver.substack.com/p/bound-the-...

I reviewed MISTY GREEN for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I reviewed MUSK, Alex Gibney's four-hour takedown of the man who owns this website's competitor stephensilver.substack.com/p/musk-is-a-...

Here's my latest #crimeblotter for @appleinsider.com appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

I wrote for National Security Journal about Trump's $5,000 check promise, which is never happening nationalsecurityjournal.org/donald-trump...

Does Warner Bros. still exist? And other thoughts on the eve of The Merger stephensilver.substack.com/p/does-warne...

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about PRIMETIME, dumb guy opinions, the first PFF titles another Daily Wire movie, “Miller Night Football” and more stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-primet...

For the @inquirer.com, I wrote about BUCKS COUNTY, USA, a @pbs.org documentary series that covers three years of a culture war in suburban Philly www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

I reviewed VERITY for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

10-pack! I reviewed documentaries about Mr. T, AI, a legendary production of “Godspell,” 100-year-olds, a very down-bad cyclist, an old MTV show, a serial killer who got in the way of the Florida Gators, and more stephensilver.substack.com/p/october-20...

I wrote about 35 years of MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO stephensilver.substack.com/p/my-own-pri...

For Broad Street Review, it's my October repertory preview: www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/you... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social @philafcc.bsky.social

I reviewed DIGGER, which is terrible stephensilver.substack.com/p/tom-cruise...

I wrote about the outstanding new Amazon documentary about ex-Eagle DeSean Jackson stephensilver.substack.com/p/go-deep-th...

I wrote this week about the Star Wars report, Tilly Norwood, and why you shouldn’t believe all the movie news you read stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-new-st...

In this week’s notes column I wrote about the promise of fall movie season, the lesbian bar story, Sly as a Trump ambassador, the merger and more stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-the-sw...

I wrote about 30 years of EXTREME MEASURES, the first movie I ever reviewed stephensilver.substack.com/p/30-years-o...

I reviewed THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I reviewed THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-histor...

For Splice Today, I reviewed HEART OF THE BEAST, the Brad Pitt dog picture www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I reviewed PRIMETIME stephensilver.substack.com/p/primetime-...

I reviewed RUN HIDE FIGHT: INFIDELS stephensilver.substack.com/p/run-hide-f...

Here's my latest #crimeblotter for @appleinsider.com appleinsider.com/articles/26/...