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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: In Now You See Me, the Closer You Look, the Less There IsThis wannabe magical mystery adventure stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.
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    Movie Review: Epic Is a Derivative Slog Through the ForestLeaf-people and people-people in this animated tale of forest adventure.
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    Movie Review: The Wolfpack Returns, Minus the Laughs, in The Hangover IIIThe laughs are few and far between in this final sequel to the comedy hit.
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    Peter Weller on Star Trek, Getting His Ph.D., and Defending J.J. Abrams“I didn’t realize this debate until I started shooting the movie.”
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    Movie Review: In Erased, Aaron Eckhart Does Liam NeesonEx-black-ops guy must flex muscle to protect/save/find his family.
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    Movie Review: Peeples“Presented” by Tyler Perry, but written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism.
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    Movie Review: Fate Is Cruel and So Is AftershockHorror maven Eli Roth wrote, produced, and stars in this earthquake-horror thriller.
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    Movie Review: The IcemanThere are so many good things in The Iceman that one wonders why the movie as a whole doesn’t quite work.
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    Movie Review: Don’t RSVP to The Big WeddingThe cast does its best, but there’s little to celebrate here.
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    Neil LaBute on Some Velvet Morning, Wicker Man“I’d work with Nic [Cage] again in a heartbeat.”
  11. behind the scenes
    How Terrence Malick Constructed To the WonderMalick and his collaborators have a very unique process.
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    Vulture Asks: What Documentaries Have Changed Your Life?Or at least your perceptions of the world in which you live.
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    The 20 Essential Documentaries of the CenturyIncluding Spellbound, Fahrenheit 9/11, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and more.
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    Movie Review: Jackie Robinson Biopic 42In this Jackie Robinson biopic, the great American gods of capitalism and baseball triumph over racism, provincialism, and ignorance.
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    Movie Review: The Company You KeepA welcome return to form for Redford the director, if not Redford the star.
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    15 Roger Ebert Passages That Epitomize His WritingFrom reviews of films both classic and awful, to memorials to Gene Siskel, to an ode to his rice cooker.
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    Jurassic Park 3-D Review: Aging Effects Just Make It More of a ClassicThe effects may have lost some of their novelty, but the film has gained some surprising profundity in twenty years.
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    Juno Temple Is Becoming the Hardest-Working Newbie in Show BusinessIt all started with an act of parental guidance gone awry.
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    Movie Review: The Host Is a Conflicted FilmAndrew Niccol’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel stars Saoirse Ronan.
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    Movie Review: G.I. Joe: RetaliationWe could easily just be watching outtakes from The Expendables or The A-Team or The Losers.
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    Room 237 Director Rodney Ascher on The Shining“I was going to spend a year and a half analyzing the carpet patterns and looking at every shot a hundred times.”
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    Toy Story 3’s Director on His Shining ObsessionHe loves it so much that he started a site devoted to the film and helped fund the new documentary Room 237.
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    Movie Review: The Croods Is an Animated Tale Smart Enough for a CavemanLike Fox’s Ice Age films, this caveman story has similar fun juxtaposing prehistoric reality with modern gags.
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    Viggo Mortensen on Beekeeping and The Hobbit“I went on opening day to see it.”
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    Four Theories on The Shining From the New Documentary Room 237Is it really about Native American genocide? Or the faked Apollo moon landing?
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    Movie Review: The Incredible Burt WonderstoneThe rest of the movie is another matter entirely.
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    Movie Review: In Another Movie, Dead Man Down Would Be the Movie SatireColin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star in this revenge film directed by Niels Arden Oplev.
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    7 Theories of What The Wizard of Oz Is Really AboutOver the years, both book and movie have fueled a number of elaborate theories as to the story’s deeper meanings.
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    Movie Review: 21 and OverThe film’s young audience of horny boys may actually be perturbed at the endless male nudity on display.
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    Movie Review: The Last Exorcism Part IIFooled you! That last exorcism? Totally wasn’t the last one.
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    Ebiri on Snitch: Face It, Everyone — the Rock Can ActIn this new crime thriller, The Rock stars as a father who joins the drug trade to help his son.
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    Which James Bond Films Would Look Best in 3-D? A Vulture RankingThere’s an awful rumor going around that the James Bond series might be converted into 3-D. So we made a list.
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    Handicapping the 2013 Oscar ShortsWe just saved your Oscar ballot.
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    Movie Review: Safe Haven Is Nicholas Sparks 101For the first few minutes, it seems like something interesting. And then the rest of the movie happens.
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    Film Review: Inside the Mind of Charles Swan IIIRoman Coppola’s latest has more great scenes than most films in theaters today. Unfortunately, it also has Charlie Sheen.
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    Movie Review: Identity Thief Should Have Stolen More LaughsDid you see Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Due Date? You get the point, then.
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    Movie Review: Warm Bodies Is a Zombie Rom-Com, Minus the ComThe film doesn’t have the conviction to follow through on its lame ideas, let alone its good ones.
  38. The 23 Worst Ways to Be Killed by Jason StathamIn which we update one of our favorite features.
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    Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch HuntersThe good news is that the actors here appear to be having fun. The bad news is that we’re not.
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    Movie Review: The Last StandAhnuld is back, as he likes to say, in this action movie from Korean auteur Kim Jee-woon.
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    Movie Review: Broken City Is a Grungy, Surprisingly Effective Neo-NoirThis Russell Crowe–Mark Wahlberg crime film is a welcome surprise in a genre sorely lacking in them of late.
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    5 Other Film Musicals That Featured Live SingingLes Misérables isn’t the only one to have tried the technique.
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    Movie Review: 56 Up Is More Social Anthropology Than PsychologyThe film misses out on intimacy.
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    Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D Leaves Little to the ImaginationThe climax of Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bit more interesting and unpredictable than the usual horror-movie third act.
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    Why Django Unchained’s Slavery Tale Had to Be a Spaghetti WesternA history lesson on film’s most subversive genre.
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    Movie Review: Promised LandMovies like this sometimes make our critic ashamed to be a liberal.
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    A Primer to All Django Unchained’s ReferencesQT likes to quote pop culture in his films. A lot.
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    Movie Review: On the Road Is a Rambling, Beautiful Museum PieceHow to be faithful to a revolutionary work of the fifties without turning it into a musty period piece?
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    Walter Salles on Finally Directing On the RoadIt’s been six years in the making.
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    Ebiri on The Impossible: The Calculated Tale of a Fateful TripNaomi Watts stars as the matriarch of a family torn apart by the 2004 tsunami.
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