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  2. Sep 18, 2014 · New film The Riot Club offers a fictional glimpse at the dark side of wealth and privilege. But how factual is its portrayal of a debauched Oxford dining club?

    • Posh

      Critics have drawn parallels between Posh's Riot Club and...

  3. Mar 11, 2015 · According to Max Irons, it might just be. In preparation for his role as one of the privileged boys, he spoke to real life members of the Bullingdon Club, who told him the events depicted in the...

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  4. Mar 27, 2015 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Lone Scherfig. Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 47m. By Stephen Holden. March 26, 2015. “ The Riot Club ,” a poisonous satire of Britain’s upper class, adapted from Laura...

    • Stephen Holden
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    • Lone Scherfig
  5. It is set among the Riot Club, a fictional all-male, exclusive dining club at the University of Oxford. When the play Posh premiered, the Riot Club was often described as a thinly veiled version of the real-life Bullingdon Club , although according to Wade it is entirely fictitious.

  6. Sep 26, 2014 · It begins as a satire of classism at a top university, before adding a nebulous love story, then morphing into an ensemble drama-comedy and culminating as a tragedy. Yet none of these strands are done effectively. The satire is simplistic and juvenile, reducing the depiction of classism to a battle between accents north and south of the M25.

  7. May 9, 2024 · What’s most remarkable about Michael Showalter’s heartbreaking 2017 romantic comedy is that it is based on a true story.

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  8. Mar 27, 2015 · The characters, the class issues, the narrative purpose is more distinct. Still, the message of the film remains muddled even as vile words give way to despicable actions. We are meant to like Milo basically because he has a girlfriend and hesitates, only slightly, in the face of committing heinous activity.

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