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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.

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    Movie Review: Deepsea Challenge 3DA documentary account of the filmmaker’s dive to the deepest known part of the ocean.
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    Get on Up Is a Rare Thing — a Genuinely Surprising BiopicStarring 42’s Chadwick Boseman as the godfather of soul.
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    Guardians of the Galaxy Is Marvel’s Class ClownThis space opera’s frivolity might be both its greatest asset and chief limitation.
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    Very Good Girls Is a Smart Movie With a Dumb Love TriangleStarring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen.
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    Movie Review: And So It GoesDirected by Rob Reiner.
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    Luc Besson on Lucy and Knowing the Limits of the Human Brain“It’s totally not true … I work on this thing for nine years and they think that I don’t know it’s not true? Of course I know it’s not true!”
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    Hercules Is Fun. It’s Also a Hot Mess.Starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular mythological man.
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    Mood Indigo Is Both Unmissable and Whisper-ThinOn Michel Gondry’s latest.
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    Movie Review: Planes: Fire and RescueIt’s better than Planes, but it’s still not particularly good.
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    The Purge: Anarchy Is a Slasher Movie With Society As the KillerIt plays like it’s already a grindhouse classic.
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    Wish I Was Here Doesn’t Know What to Do With Its Generational AngstWhat Braff seems to lack in cinematic imagination, he partly makes up for in sincerity.
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    The Frantic-Dad Thriller Rage Needs More Help From Nicolas CageCan’t Liam Neeson just be in all of these roles?
  13. anniversaries
    10 Ways A Hard Day’s Night (the Movie) Changed the World(The movie.)
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    Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me and You Feels Like the Work of a Contented ManThe director’s first Italian-language film in three decades.
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    Deliver Us From Evil Is a Thoroughly Generic Exorcism FilmStarring Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, and Joel McHale.
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    Earth to Echo Gets How Hard It Is to Be a Teen(And then adds some aliens.)
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    They Came Together Will Make You Love Rom-Coms Again(If you’d ever stopped.)
  18. obits
    Eli Wallach, Dead at 98, Always Stole the ShowWallach was often a lead — a legend, actually — on Broadway, but a supporting actor on film.
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    Movie Review: Think Like a Man TooThe sequel to 2012’s hit rom-com.
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    Coherence Is a Great Sci-Fi Story Smuggled Inside a Dinner-Party MovieYou’ll walk away from it with your brain on fire.
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    Movie Review: Paul Haggis’s Third PersonThe guy can tell a story, he just can’t tell a realistic one.
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    The Signal Is a Dumb Sci-fi Movie Gussied Up to Look Like a Smart OneStarring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, and Laurence Fishburne.
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    Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2The follow-up to the charming 2010 Vikings-and-dragons adventure from Dreamworks Animation.
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    Ebiri: Ping Pong Summer Is All Surface, But It’s BeautifulSet in a beach town in the summer of 1985.
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    Ebiri on Borgman: A Dynamo of WeirdnessAs if David Lynch remade Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
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    Ebiri on The Sacrament: This Should Be Ti West’s Final Horror MovieFrom the director of House of the Devil and The Innkeepers.
  27. vulture recommends
    12 Films From 1969 to Help You Get Through Your Mad Men WithdrawalSome deal with advertising, sure.
  28. movies
    James Gray: American Cinema’s Secret JewelThe Immigrant director makes a type of movie that barely exists anymore.
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    Ebiri on Filth: An Incoherent Movie Electrified by James McAvoyBased on Irvine Welsh’s hallucinatory, fragmented, bizarre novel.
  30. Lukas Moodysson on Flipping Off Award Shows“There were a few people who started booing. So, then I just felt like, You can all go …
  31. movie review
    Ebiri on Maleficent: Don’t Let Her Be MisunderstoodAngelina Jolie stars as the Disney villainess.
  32. reel talk
    Where Are the Disney Villains of Yesteryear?Maleficent ain’t what she used to be.
  33. no respect week
    Paul W.S. Anderson on Building the Perfect Over-the-Top Action SceneWhat’s the secret to a good beheading, you ask? The director of Resident Evil and Pompeii is your friend.
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    Movie Review: The Angriest Man in BrooklynOr, what happens when the Field of Dreams writer-director teams up with the Patch Adams actor.
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    Movie Review: Dance of RealityJodorowsky’s first feature film in 24 years.
  36. summer movie preview 2014
    Why Adam Sandler Might Be the Most Important Comedian of His GenerationThere’s a profound sense of self-loathing at the core of his performances.
  37. looking back
    Gordon Willis Directed a Strange Film, WindowsOne curious corner of Willis’s filmography rarely gets discussed — his 1980 thriller Windows.
  38. Mad Men: The Story Behind I Am Curious (Yellow)“Of course Megan would want to see a dirty movie.”
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    Movie Review: Chinese PuzzleIngredients: Audrey Tatou, a love triangle, and Brooklyn.
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    Movie Review: Half of a Yellow SunBiyi Bandele’s adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award-winning historical epic.
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    Movie Review: Million Dollar ArmIn his passion project, sporty Jon Hamm is solidly in his comfort zone.
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    Marion Cotillard on The ImmigrantThe Oscar-winning French actress speaks in Polish for much of the movie.
  43. obits
    Ebiri on Alien Artist H.R. Giger, 1940-2014For all the work he did, it’s the main creature from Alien for which he is best known today.
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    Movie Review: Moms’ Night OutA faith-friendly version of a girls-behaving-badly comedy.
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    Movie Review: Devil’s KnotBased on the true story that has been chronicled in four acclaimed documentaries.
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    Ebiri on Chef: A Comfort Movie About Comfort FoodIt’s hard not to read a teensy bit of self-reflection into Jon Favreau’s new movie.
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    Ebiri on Neighbors: Zac Efron’s Blank Face Is This Movie’s Secret WeaponCo-starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as new parents who find themselves living next to a frat house.
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    Ebiri: The Protector 2 Betrays All the Tony Jaa FansA sequel to Jaa’s 2005 film, which saw him as an elephant protector who fought poachers, gangsters, and extreme fighters.
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    Ebiri on Belle: No Ordinary Movie About 18th Century RacismThis small, well-made, touchingly old-fashioned romance stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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    Ebiri: You’ll Hate Yourself for Jumping at The Quiet Ones’ Cheap ScaresThe Quiet Ones is uninspired even by contemporary horror standards.
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