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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
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) 79% EDIT “The ideal antidote for the rise of redpill content, it turns out, is a mild-mannered, middle-aged British documentarian” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% EDIT “Goes much bigger than the original, but not necessarily better.” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 20, 2026 Full Review The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth (2023) 94% EDIT “There's a lot of great stuff here, but balancing the two stories is a choice that doesn't quite work. ” – Splice Today Mar 20, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “Like Roger Ebert said about hot-air balloons, good movies rarely feature a podcast.” – Splice Today Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% EDIT “Features a true movie-star performance from Ryan Gosling, a strong script, amazing visuals, and an ending that especially delivers” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 11, 2026 Full Review André Is an Idiot (2025) 96% EDIT “The Poignant true story of a one-of-a-kind character, his fatal cancer diagnosis, and how he deals with his fate with cheer and humor” – The SS Ben Hecht Mar 11, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 84% EDIT “The plot is the familiar and cliched sports underdog story, but it adds a few unique touches” – Splice Today Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% EDIT “Starts out looking conventional and tired, but the film moves into something different, better and crazier.” – Splice Today Mar 11, 2026 Full Review 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) 57% 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) 52% 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) 61% 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) 17% 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) 97% 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
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