Synopsis
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
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Cast
- Max IronsMiles Richards
- Sam ClaflinAlistair Ryle
- Douglas BoothHarry Villiers
- Holliday GraingerLauren
- Jessica Brown FindlayRachel
- Natalie DormerCharlie
- Sam ReidHugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt
- Tom HollanderJeremy Villiers
- Freddie FoxJames Leighton-Masters
- Gordon BrownChris
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
The Riot Club hands its audience a ticket, as well as a free pass to pour scorn over proceedings. That's a double-bill which should prove pretty irresistible. - 80
Variety
Scherfig approaches the milieu with shrewd anthropological wit, amplifying Wade’s research with her own keen outsider insights — this on top of an expert grasp of tension and tone as the club’s initial allure turns to anxiety and disgust. - 60
CineVue
It makes for entertaining viewing but its power is undermined by a ultimate lack of insight amongst the debauchery. - 60
The Telegraph
Some of the supporting performances are so hammily spiteful and giggly they let the side down, but the film is perfectly cast in its main roles. - 60
Empire
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. - 60
Time Out London
Wade’s dialogue is totally convincing, all in-jokes and boarding school banter... The trouble with The Riot Club is that dramatically it never quite comes together. - 60
Village Voice
Director Lone 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. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Laura Wade’s adaptation of her hit play, Posh, has sacrificed much of its savage comedy en route to the screen, and while the dark drama is never dull, its portrait of upper-crust entitlement run amok is seldom surprising either.
