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.
How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
Why Was The Abyss a Flop?Critics and audiences rejected James Cameron’s underwater “nightmare” in 1989. But its imperfections only add to its deranged grandeur.
Picking His FightsThe twists and turns of Jake Gyllenhaal’s unlikely, unsettling action career have brought him to Road House.
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We Don’t Know AnythingThe Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom thriller and a marital drama, but it’s also about how we’ve lost the ability to grasp reality.
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Bustin’ Makes Me Feel BlehIn Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the jokes are witless, the emotions artless, and the film joyless.
A Final Farewell to Ryuichi SakamotoA new concert film, Opus, represents the culmination of a lifelong journey from effusive maximalism to gentle simplicity.
Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for SpacemanSandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
A Backward Movie for an Upside-Down WorldRevisiting Tenet in the wake of Oppenheimer shows us how Christopher Nolan has long been fixated on humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.
The 15 Best Movies We Saw This Year at SundanceThis year’s slate actually felt like Sundance, like the festival it used to be before it became just another stop on Hollywood’s eternal red carpet.
