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Stephen Silver

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Biography:

Stephen Silver is a film critic for Splice Today, Broad Street Review and the Film Scribes podcast. The cofounder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle and a member of the Online Film Critics Society, Stephen is the former entertainment editor of TechnologyTell.com, and his work has appeared in RogerEbert.com, Tablet, New York Press, Philly Voice, Philadelphia Magazine, Screen Rant, the Jewish Telegraph Agency and AppleInsider. Stephen lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons.

Location:

Philadelphia

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
An American Pastoral (2024) 100% EDIT “A fascinating doc which, in the Wiseman style, lets scenes play out, and tells people’s stories while granting them dignity and not editorializing” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review The Librarians (2025) 94% EDIT “Uneven doc on book-banning battles, and the position of librarians on the front lines of them.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Threshold (2026) EDIT “One thing I liked about it is that it doesn’t really look or feel like the numerous human-interest packages produced during the actual Olympic broadcast.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) 60% EDIT “ The film feels the need to use bizarre AI tech to recreate witness interviews, which just looks silly.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 88% EDIT “The film is structured a lot like a sports documentary, which it in some ways is, and it never quite reinvents the wheel of that format. ” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Matter of Time (2025) EDIT “This film is part earnest, human-interest issue documentary, part Eddie Vedder concert film” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2024) EDIT “If the idea is to deliver entertaining, music-laden storytelling, that gets to the spirit of who this guy was… it’s more like that.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Artfully United (2025) EDIT “Very good stuff, and I liked his character, "Powerful Paul," that’s featured on the murals.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% EDIT “Ultimately, most of its swings fail to connect, and neither lead actor does anything close to their best work.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 6, 2026 Full Review War Machine (2026) 69% EDIT “Its biggest weakness is that it doesn’t give Ritchson much of a chance to show off his personality” – Splice Today Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2025) 53% EDIT “I liked it while I was watching it, but I’m not so sure what point it was making,” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 56% EDIT “In every sense, a movie for grown-ups” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 26, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 18% EDIT “Steals most of its ideas from Kubrick's 2001, in which the massive sweep of history is meant to supply a poignancy that simply isn’t there.” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% EDIT “It certainly has the Baz touch, in that it moves very fast, while also always having a ton going on sonically.” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% EDIT “if you’re a Beatles fan or Paul fan, you’re almost guaranteed to enjoy this.” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Funny, horrifying and surprisingly romantic.” – Splice Today Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Operation Taco Gary's (2024) 60% EDIT “It's very funny, and also centers itself in modern conspiracy culture while getting most of it, but not all of it, right. ” – Splice Today Feb 26, 2026 Full Review A Letter to David (2025) EDIT “One of the more intriguing of the many post-October 7 documentaries. ” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “If you can get past that it rips off Michael Mann’s Heat in many ways, large and small; this is an outstanding crime film” – Splice Today Feb 20, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 47% EDIT “Despite a dynamite premise and strong leads, this film could have used a sharper, nastier script. ” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 18, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 93% EDIT “Features extensive interviews with Chase — many of which show him being a jerk live on camera — lays out the entire story, leaving it to the viewer to judge. ” – Living Life Fearless Feb 13, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “A Netflix urban cop corruption thriller set in Miami that owes a lot more to the Den of Thieves movies than to either incarnation of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice.” – Splice Today Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 58% EDIT “A naughty and audacious literary adaptation, although not quite on the level of her first two films.” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Chain Reactions (2024) 98% EDIT “Each provides keen insight, and I was intrigued, even as someone who’s never been all that into that particular film.” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (2024) EDIT “A well-put-together telling of a rather obscure story from the civil rights era,” – The SS Ben Hecht Feb 12, 2026 Full Review
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