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Mar 27, 2015 · In the elite realm of Oxford University, no society is more exclusive than The Riot Club, the ultra-selective fraternity for Britain's most privileged sons. When he's recruited to join, down-to-earth first-year student Miles (Max Irons) is at first amused—but he's about to get a taste of upper-crust entitlement at its ugliest when a hedonistic night of drinking and drugs spins out of control.
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Sep 18, 2014 · Max Irons, who stars in the film as Riot Club inductee Miles Richards, admits he had reservations when he first read Wade's script about the pleasure-seeking undergrads. "I thought they were so ...
Mar 27, 2015 · Read Adam's The Riot Club review for Lone Scherfig's vigorous adaptation of the stage play Posh, starring Max Irons, Sam Claflin, and Douglas Booth.
- Adam Chitwood
The film, on the other hand, isn't too bad. It's a cross between Brideshead Revisited and Lord of the Flies, sadly with none of their subtlety, but it romps along. In the opening scene, we see The Riot Club's 18th century founder, the 7th Duke of Carlisle, shagging someone's wife. 'He who lives by the sword,' says the narrator - fnarr fnarr ...
Mar 22, 2015 · The Riot Club invites such crude conceptualizations through its own comparisons, cultivating representational concerns not just through character behaviors, but also the filmmakers’ noxiously overt treatment of these Raskolnikovian types, whose philosophical belief in their autonomy separate from societal mores is left unmoored by the film ...
Apr 10, 2015 · Socioeconomic struggle writ large in every scene, The Riot Club feels as if it is trying too hard to make viewers hate the super rich. As if the pompous attitudes adopted by these young men (almost justifiable given their obscene wealth) is not enough to earn our scorn, Laura Wade’s adapted screenplay is packed with misogyny, violence, ignorance and centuries of prominence-turned-sociopathy.
Sep 18, 2014 · The Riot Club is an elite Oxford University dining society for young male poshos previously educated at Eton, St Paul's or Westminster. Or, if they are desperate to reach a quorum, Harrow.
