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Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection.

  1. movie review
    In Eephus, Baseball Is a Metaphor for Life, But It’s Also Just LifeCarson Lund’s charming indie film about a bunch of guys playing their last ball game has a power that sneaks up on you.
  2. a long talk
    Paul W.S. Anderson on Getting Lost in George R.R. Martin’s WorldThe director talks his new film In the Lost Lands, skipping the Resident Evil reboot, and his harshest critics.
  3. movie review
    Years Later, Play It As It Lays Is Back on the ScreenFrank Perry’s film of Joan Didion’s novel is a bleak and beautifully stylized look at Hollywood despair.
  4. movie review
    There’s Horror Lurking Under Becoming a Guinea Fowl’s Absurdist HumorThe Cannes prizewinner is now in theaters in the U.S.
  5. movie review
    In the Lost Lands Is So Metal It HurtsPaul W.S. Anderson returns, this time with a postapocalyptic medieval fantasy sci-fi western fable adapted from a George R.R. Martin short story.
  6. best of 2025
    The Best Movies of 2025 (So Far)Featuring at least one you could feasibly call a meathead remake of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice.
  7. movie review
    It’s No Wonder That Everyone Falls for AnoraSean Baker’s Anora latest is a movie about the way people look at each other, though it may not seem that way on the surface.
  8. movie review
    No Other Land Is the Year’s Most Powerful DocumentaryNo Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
  9. movie review
    Last Breath Is, Well, BreathtakingThis underwater-survival thriller, based on a real-life 2012 deep-sea diving incident, is worth seeing on a big screen while you can.
  10. action!
    And the Winners of the 2025 Stunt Awards Are …Hundreds of action pros voted, and George Miller’s postapocalyptic action team reigned supreme.
  11. the stunt awards
    George Miller Has Lots of Stories Left to Tell, and One of Them Is a New Mad Max“We’ve got another script.”
  12. pretty statues
    Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class PhotoRevisiting 40 years of fancy midday Hollywood hangs.
  13. movie review
    Daisy Ridley’s Die Hard Knockoff, Cleaner, Has Some Fun Action But Little ElseNot even veteran action-master Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) can’t fix this dopey script.
  14. performance review
    He Overacted. He Did Too Much. He Deserves the Oscar.Jeremy Strong is doing something that very few supporting actors are willing, or even empowered, to do nowadays. Reward him for it.
  15. movie review
    Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of GeniusYou walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated.
  16. movie review
    The Best Movie at Cannes Last Year Is Finally in TheatersMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
  17. movie review
    Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop MachineThe messy and tiresome Captain America: Brave New World has a few ideas, but it handles them in the most shallow, simplistic ways.
  18. movie review
    Horizon Will Be a Monumental Achievement — If Kevin Costner Can Finish ItThe latest installment of Kevin Costner’s four-part western epic is darker and more intimate than the first.
  19. movie review
    Does Love Hurts Even Count As a Movie?If you can’t make the fight scenes interesting in a film that’s nothing but fight scenes, what have you got?
  20. movie review
    A Woman Is a Woman and the Legend of Anna KarinaJean-Luc Godard’s second released feature — a magnificent and bizarre “neorealist musical” — is back in theaters in a 4K restoration.
  21. sundance 2025
    The Best and Meh-st of a Dud Year at SundanceThis year’s festival felt like the last days of a going-out-of-business sale. Still, a few gems emerged in the slush.
  22. sundance 2025
    Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of ArtNetflix just bought one of the best films of the year out of Sundance, but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
  23. sundance 2025
    The Wedding Banquet Is Rom-Com Whiplash in the Best SenseThe characters in Andrew Ahn’s remake of an Ang Lee classic can get gay-married, but they’re going to get fake straight-married instead.
  24. sundance 2025
    An Absorbing Sundance Thriller With a Dark HeartAlireza Khatami’s The Things You Kill is a case study for how to make an effective psychological thriller.
  25. sundance 2025
    The Best Film at Sundance Is Just Two People TalkingIra Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
  26. sundance 2025
    A Slithery, Singing John Malkovich Is All Opus Has Going for ItIt’s frankly shocking that nobody has asked him to play a pop star until now.
  27. a long talk
    ‘You Have to Keep Proving That You Exist’At 97 years old, filmmaker Michael Roemer is seeing his work discovered and embraced.
  28. movie review
    Zodiac Killer Project Brilliantly Deconstructs Our Obsession With True CrimeA work of criticism as well as a work of art, Charlie Shackleton’s sly film is nebulously sinister and dryly hilarious all at once.
  29. sundance 2025
    One Star-Making Performance Can’t Save Kiss of the Spider WomanEnergetic and riveting, Tonatiuh brings layers of tenderness and complexity. If only the rest of the picture could match his vitality.
  30. stunt awards 2025
    The Third Annual Stunt Awards Are HereIt’s 2025 and there’s still no Best Stunt Oscar. We’re honoring the action pros who deserve recognition anyway.
  31. sundance 2025
    The Thing With Feathers Almost Wastes a Great Benedict Cumberbatch PerformanceThe actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.
  32. sundance 2025
    We Have Good News and Bad News About The Legend of OchiThe good news is the controversy over the new A24 film’s supposedly AI-looking critter is baseless. The bad news? Well…
  33. sundance 2025
    All That’s Left of You Isn’t Looking for Just EmpathyA Palestinian acting dynasty stars in this uneven but artful film about the alienation that survival sometimes requires.
  34. sundance 2025
    A Languorous, 87-Minute Movie Worth WatchingSierra Falconer’s Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is an anthology film that actually works.
  35. sundance 2025
    Rabbit Trap Needs More Than Technical Razzle DazzleThe Sundance horror movie has a lot to say about repression, but you can’t really call it subtext when it’s literally screeched from minute one.
  36. sundance 2025
    A Dark Truth Runs Beneath the Surface of The Dating GameThe colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s Sundance documentary mask a grim, dystopian reality.
  37. movie review
    Cinderella Was Always a Body-Horror StoryNorwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale.
  38. sundance 2025
    15 Movies We’re Excited to See at Sundance ’25Last year’s lineup brought us I Saw The TV Glow and Between the Temples, and this year’s festival promises a number of oddities and originals.
  39. vulture lists
    The 47 Best Movies Over 3 Hours LongGot some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.
  40. fall preview 2024
    Adam Pearson Is No WallflowerIn A Different Man, the actor has his biggest role to date in a dark comedy inspired by his upbeat personality.
  41. movie review
    Fernanda Torres Is a Subtle Marvel in I’m Still HereWalter Salles’s political drama looks at one family’s suffering during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
  42. movie review
    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
  43. movie review
    Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in A Real PainJesse Eisenberg’s charming Oscar winner moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath.
  44. movie review
    Wolf Man Is Half a MovieLeigh Whannell’s new horror film has some good scares, but it strands its characters in the murk.
  45. movie review
    Gerard Butler Letting Loose Is a Beautiful Thing to BeholdIf the first Den of Thieves was a meathead remake of Heat, the sequel feels like a meathead remake of Miami Vice.
  46. movie review
    Saving the Hummingbirds of Los Angeles, Despite the OddsSally Aitken’s sublime new documentary, Every Little Thing, shows us that healing society begins with healing the most vulnerable.
  47. movie review
    Thank the Cinema Gods, Mike Leigh Is BackHard Truths might be his funniest film in a long time, but as always, it’s the kind of laughter that comes with unnerving inevitabilities.
  48. vulture lists
    The 54 Best Movies Under 90 MinutesSometimes you just want a good story, capably told with no time to waste.
  49. movie review
    BETTER MAN
    The Craziest Musical of the Year Is Finally HereTrying to describe the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, one sounds like a lunatic.
  50. a long talk
    James Mangold Explains What A Complete Unknown Is Really AboutThe A Complete Unknown director got into filmmaking because he was lonely. It’s a quality he also saw in Bob Dylan.
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