Who's up for a little blunt-force social commentary about the haves and have-nots, set in the rarefied clime of Oxford University?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 15, 2015

Although the performances are uniformly on point and the dialogue is tartly British, the film ultimately fails to earn its riotous stripes.

| Apr 9, 2015

It's a film that seems to have no further point than to remind us that some powerful jerks were once powerful jerk kids. Point taken, but it's not cinematically satisfying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2015

I was drained and quivering with fury and disgust.

| Mar 26, 2015

The Riot Club is, finally, a monster movie. Which I suppose is what some become who are too rich and powerful to be bothered with inhibitions or morality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2015

The Riot Club comes with the dubious ambition of instructing us as to the evil ways of spoiled British toffs, as if that were needed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2015

It's all quite superficial, but never less than gripping, and is aided by an ending that at least doesn't compromise too much-the movie finishes with a smirk more than a smile.

| Mar 26, 2015

An alleged cautionary tale that revels in bad behavior for nearly two hours before finally offering up a stern "tsk, tsk, tsk."

| Original Score: C- | Mar 26, 2015

[An] engaging but malignant look at male privilege run amok.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2015

For a movie about a bunch of debauched Oxford swells, The Riot Club is remarkably lacking in wit...and debauchery, for that matter.

| Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2015

Scherfig, who showed such subtlety in "An Education," this time proves embarrassingly vulgar, giving the film the unfortunate aura of an angry leaflet being handed out on a street corner by a wild-eyed protester.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 25, 2015

Scherfig's stagings of these suspenseful set pieces are masterful, but the rest of the thriller is a fairly predictable manifesto against Britain's de facto oligarchy.

| Mar 24, 2015

The thinly sketched characters of the film are numerous and inconsequential, with director Lone Scherfig giving sparse attention to humanizing or deepening them.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2015

The ensemble of handsome young British actors donning the requisite tailcoats and arrogant airs are all too seductively believable, and it is the film's few representatives of the lumpen bourgeoisie who can make the film seem just a touch unsubtle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2014

The performances of the young cast are committedly brittle, especially Ben Schnetzer playing the antithesis of his Tory-baiting role in Pride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2014

The Riot Club can't always transcend its theatrical origins, but there's a nasty sting lurking under all those high spirits and all these pretty people

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2014

The Danish director Lone Scherfig does a fair job of conveying the brutishness of her protagonists, their sense of entitlement and their vicious snobbery. Laura Wade's script (based on her own play Posh) is very sharply written.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2014

It's almost as if the film has been designed to make fans of Downton Abbey realise the error of their ways. Are you impressed - aroused, even - by the stinking rich? If so, get ready to hold your nose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2014

Well played across the board, The Riot Club is an entertaining glimpse into the dark side of privilege. Yet it lacks the richness and insight to be anything more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2014

It's a sharp satirical cartoon of English class warfare and class conspiracy - though it fudges a final point of plot-jeopardy and I suspect a director like Thomas Vinterberg or Lars von Trier would have made it a hardcore nightmare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2014