The plot in "Silo" ultimately proves too thin, with not enough fleshing out of either the shared history of the characters or the particulars of the extraction.
Read full articleSumptuously filmed by Hunter Baker, it's a testament to simple but effective filmmaking.
Read full articleIf Burnette's formal instincts are suboptimal - the pervasive backlighting and underlighting keep much of the action in shadow - his dramatic instincts are worse.
Read full articleAdmirably straightforward in a way that feels absolutely right for these characters. Unfortunately, Silo still feels underdeveloped in its straightforwardness, rendering a simple story sadly stillborn.
Read full articleA farm, a silo filled with grain, a teenage worker, an accident - I'm hooked.
Read full articleThankfully, even with its faults, Burnette succeeds in delivering a film that makes us think about the perils farmers endure every day so that we may eat. A lot of thought went into it, and it deserves credit for this, despite its shortcomings.
Read full articleSilo" is a wonderful example of regional filmmaking, the sort of small, handmade film that seemed everywhere in the early 1990s.
Read full articleSilo struggles more than it ought to to hold viewer attention, but there's a lot of good work here if you care to look, and an additional layer of horror lurks behind it all.
Read full articleSoon enough, this small, unassuming film reveals its true nature as one of the scariest movies I've seen in a long time.
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