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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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    Isaiah Washington on Blue Caprice“I’m more interested in telling stories about what’s relevant in our world today than playing a slave or a butler.”
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    Ebiri on Battle of the Year: Great Dancing, Needs More DancingJosh Holloway and Chris Brown star in this movie about an international B-boy competition.
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    Movie Review: RushChris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl star as rival Formula One racers.
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    Harry Dean Stanton Shares His Movie Memories“I’ve done over 200 movies. I can’t remember all of them.”
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    Movie Review: Jayne Mansfield’s CarSet in 1969 Alabama and starring Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, and John Hurt.
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    Movie Review: Insidious: Chapter 2The sequel to the 2010 horror film brings back the original cast and director.
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    Box Office Explained: Instructions Not IncludedThe Spanish-language film held steady this week in third place.
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    Ebiri on Adore: Two Hot Mothers, Two Hot Sons, Sexy TimeNaomi Watts and Robin Wright star.
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    Ebiri: Riddick Is Vin Diesel’s Life’s Work, for Whatever That’s WorthThe sequel to Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick.
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    Ebiri: Getaway Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a ConcussionStarring Ethan Hawke as a former race-car driver.
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    Vulture’s Labor Day Weekend Movie RoundupVulture’s movie critics want to make sure you’re well advised on how to spend your last summer weekend at the cinema.
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    Ebiri: Closed Circuit Is a Grisham in Le Carré ClothingStarring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall as lawyers defending a terrorist suspect.
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    Director Wong Kar-Wai Explains Three Key Scenes From The Grandmaster“It was actually freezing, with all that rain. It was terrible.”
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    Ebiri on The Grandmaster: Welcome Back, Wong Kar-waiA kung-fu movie by the director of Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.
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    Ebiri on You’re Next: A Strangely Inept Horror MovieThe latest entry into the rapidly proliferating home-invaders-with-strange-masks subgenre.
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    Movie Review: The Mortal InstrumentsBased on the first installment of a six-book series about demons and shadowhunters.
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    Ebiri: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Is Beautiful But MeanderingCasey Affleck and Rooney Mara are star-crossed outlaw lovers.
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    Ebiri: Paranoia Is a Quaint, Throwback Corporate ThrillerLiam Hemsworth stars alongside Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford.
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    Movie Review: Jobs Is the Equivalent of a Feature-Length Slow ClapAshton Kutcher stars as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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    Movie Review: Kick-Ass 2The sequel to 2010’s teen superhero movie stars Chloë Grace-Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jim Carrey.
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    Ebiri: Prince Avalanche Is Captivatingly AimlessPaul Rudd and Emile Hirsch go from Hemingway to Beckett.
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    Movie Review: Planes Has a Script Made for a VCRA throwback to straight-to-video Disney quickies like Bambi II.
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    Movie Review: Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersThis sequel to Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief stars Logan Lerman and Stanley Tucci.
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    Movie Review: We’re the MillersJason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston star in this road-trip comedy.
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    David Gordon Green’s Week in Pop-Culture ConsumptionThe director of Prince Avalanche on everything he watched, read, listened to, and clicked on over a week.
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    Ebiri on 2 Guns: The Guy-iest of This Summer’s Guy MoviesSuch a guy movie that if guys didn’t exist, 2 Guns would have to invent them.
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    Ebiri on The Smurfs 2: Darker Than Expected, But Still a Smurf MovieThis is the second in a series of movies about Smurfs.
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    Movie Review: The To Do ListAubrey Plaza stars in this raunchy high-school-set comedy.
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    4 Lost Treasures to Stream on Amazon Prime Instant VideoObscure films by Roberto Rossellini and George Cukor are ripe for the plucking.
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    Tracing the Very Peculiar Career of David LynchA trip through the life of the director, newspaper cartoonist, doughnuts-and-coffee enthusiast—and, with this month’s The Big Dream, pop musician.
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    Movie Review: Red 2Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Anthony Hopkins star in this “old people shoot guns!” action-comedy.
  32. Movie Review: R.I.P.D.Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star in this Men in Black rip-off.
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    Ebiri: The Conjuring Makes Screams the Old-Fashioned Way — It Earns ThemVera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as a pair of paranormal investigators in the new spook story from director James Wan.
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    Movie Review: Turbo Will Make You Believe a Snail Can RaceA snail wants to race the Indy 500 in this new animated movie. Crazy, right?
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    Movie Review: Crystal Fairy Is One Drugged Up, Out There MovieStarring Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann.
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    Movie Review: Grown-Ups 2Amazingly, Taylor Lautner delivers the stand-out performance in this new Adam Sandler “comedy.”
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    Movie Review: Despicable Me 2 Is a Charmer, Though Less DespicableGru goes good in this sequel to the 2010 animated megahit.
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    A Brief History of the President of the United States, Action-Movie HeroFrom Charles Heston’s Andrew Jackson to Cliff Robertson’s JFK and all the way to Aaron Eckhart’s President John Q. Generic.
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    8 Things That (Probably) Wouldn’t Exist Without Fellini’s 8 ½One very famous R.E.M. video, for starters.
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    Movie Review: Can a Jason Statham Vehicle Like Redemption Have a Soul?Once again, Jason Statham plays someone who can kick your ass. But there’ s more to it.
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    Movie Review: The HeatThe new comedy from Paul Feig is kind of a mess, but it’s a funny mess.
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    Director Neil Jordan on Byzantium and Vampire Movies“It’s quite difficult to put a vampire movie out there nowadays.”
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    Movie Review: The Attack — When Your Wife Is the Suicide BomberThis movie about an Arab surgeon working in Tel Aviv is directed by Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri.
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    Movie Review: Monsters UniversityEnough of Monsters Inc.’s original spirit remains in this prequel that it’d be absurd not to recommend it.
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    Movie Review: Berberian Sound StudioThose with a flair for the offbeat might find themselves unnerved and riveted by this film starring Toby Jones.
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    Ebiri on Vehicle 19: Let Us Sing the Praises of Paul WalkerOne of the stars of the Fast and the Furious series leads yet another car-chase thriller.
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    NSA, CIA, FBI, Everyone — A Timeline of Surveillance in the MoviesSorry, NSA. The movies beat you to the punch.
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    Movie Review: The InternshipStarring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Google.
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    Movie Review: The Purge Is Very Ridiculous and Very SuspensefulThe home-invasion thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey.
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    Movie Review: Comedy and Naturalism Clash in The Kings of SummerThis coming-of-age tale features great adult actors and middling kid ones.
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