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The SS Ben Hecht

The SS Ben Hecht is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Stephen Silver.

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Marc by Sofia (2025) Stephen Silver The film loses any critical distance, but makes up for it in warmth.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost Elephants (2025) Stephen Silver Herzog’s distinctive voice and narration can liven up even the most boring of nature documentaries.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
1000 Women in Horror (2025) Stephen Silver It’s an expansive history of women in the horror film genre, both in front of and behind the camera, as well as examinations of tropes and tendencies.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare (2026) Stephen Silver The doc includes lots of amazing on-the-ground footage from the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident, while juxtaposing that with old cartoons of government propaganda
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plastic Detox (2026) Stephen Silver a completely unscientific study that confuses correlation and causation. It also doesn’t help that the subjects are kind of unbearable.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
It's Dorothy! (2025) Stephen Silver I found this rather unfocused, without any real overarching statement.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Bella! (2023) Stephen Silver It’s all pretty straightforward in telling the story of Abzug’s rise, her career, and her many political defeats and comebacks, leading up to her death in 1998.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Keep Quiet and Forgive (2025) Stephen Silver A Harrowing look at sexual abuse in the Amish and Mennonite cultures, in which abuse is swept under the rug and men in the community, seemingly every time, tell the victims that it’s their fault for not being submissive enough
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Voice That Rocked America: The Dick Biondi Story (2026) Stephen Silver It’s a bit of a low-budget affair, and I admit that I had never heard of Bidondi before I sat down to watch it. But by the end, I was invested.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) Stephen Silver I could clearly see the appeal and passion that went into this.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Stephen Silver I admired its audacity, as it’s a movie about relationships and marriage that’s dramatically different from every other one I’ve ever seen
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty Lethal (2026) Stephen Silver There’s impressive action from time to time, but I would have preferred a movie just about the dysfunctional ballet company.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Micro Budget (2024) Stephen Silver The people who made this are much better at convincing well-known people to make cameos than at any other aspect of filmmaking.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Stephen Silver Occasionally funny, although the novelty of criminals acting this silly wore off about 30 years ago.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Stephen Silver A lot less experimental and more conventional than his recent films, and quite a bit talkier, but like most of Jude’s work, it certainly has something to say.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
You're Dating a Narcissist! (2025) Stephen Silver I found it charming, and particularly on the button when it comes to noting a certain modern tendency.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Stephen Silver The ideal antidote for the rise of redpill content, it turns out, is a mild-mannered, middle-aged British documentarian
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Stephen Silver Goes much bigger than the original, but not necessarily better.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Stephen Silver Features a true movie-star performance from Ryan Gosling, a strong script, amazing visuals, and an ending that especially delivers
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
André Is an Idiot (2025) Stephen Silver 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
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Stephen Silver A fascinating doc which, in the Wiseman style, lets scenes play out, and tells people’s stories while granting them dignity and not editorializing
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Librarians (2025) Stephen Silver Uneven doc on book-banning battles, and the position of librarians on the front lines of them.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Threshold (2026) Stephen Silver 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.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) Stephen Silver The film feels the need to use bizarre AI tech to recreate witness interviews, which just looks silly.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen of Chess (2026) Stephen Silver 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.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Matter of Time (2025) Stephen Silver This film is part earnest, human-interest issue documentary, part Eddie Vedder concert film
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Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2024) Stephen Silver 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.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Artfully United (2025) Stephen Silver Very good stuff, and I liked his character, "Powerful Paul," that’s featured on the murals.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Stephen Silver Ultimately, most of its swings fail to connect, and neither lead actor does anything close to their best work.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Dreams (2025) Stephen Silver I liked it while I was watching it, but I’m not so sure what point it was making,
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Stephen Silver In every sense, a movie for grown-ups
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Stephen Silver 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.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Stephen Silver It certainly has the Baz touch, in that it moves very fast, while also always having a ton going on sonically.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Stephen Silver if you’re a Beatles fan or Paul fan, you’re almost guaranteed to enjoy this.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A Letter to David (2025) Stephen Silver One of the more intriguing of the many post-October 7 documentaries.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Stephen Silver Despite a dynamite premise and strong leads, this film could have used a sharper, nastier script.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Stephen Silver A naughty and audacious literary adaptation, although not quite on the level of her first two films.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Chain Reactions (2024) Stephen Silver Each provides keen insight, and I was intrigued, even as someone who’s never been all that into that particular film.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (2024) Stephen Silver A well-put-together telling of a rather obscure story from the civil rights era,
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Miracle: The Boys of '80 (2026) Stephen Silver It tells the story the same way most of the other Miracle on Ice docs have, complete with most of the same people saying most of the same things.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
33 Photos From the Ghetto (2026) Stephen Silver The film uses modern technology to examine the photographs of the past, for a greater understanding of what happened.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Viva Verdi! (2024) Stephen Silver The "characters" are wonderful, and the music, even more so.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Elway (2025) Stephen Silver The film mostly represents a fun throwback to an era of the NFL that I fondly remember.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Melania (2026) Stephen Silver It’s just really, really boring. And it’s full of some very odd choices, and I’m not sure whether to blame Ratner or his subject, who reportedly 'planned every element' of the picture.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Stephen Silver The Moment shows that Charli can definitely hold the screen in a feature film. It’s not quite a pure comedy, although there are plenty of laughs.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Rebel with a Clause (2025) Stephen Silver It's not a lecture, or even a top-down declaration about the proper use of gerunds, split infinitives and the Oxford Comma. Instead it's a series of friendly, respectful conversations.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Stephen Silver Features well-executed over-the-top action set pieces, first-rate banter between the two stars, consistent humor, and a fine use of Hawaii locations.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Stephen Silver Starts as a certain kind of bad movie- boring, convoluted, and inert, while not making much use of its unconventional style. At the end, though, it becomes something much worse.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Stephen Silver Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is valuable in that it gives the now 38-year-old Elizabeth her say, on camera, and shares the story that her voice has too often been left out of.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Stephen Silver It quickly transcends its gimmick, mostly because it’s about something much more crucial than coffee or cigarettes: Namely, family, and how parents and children fracture over time.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
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