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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: Save the Date Is a Horror Rom-ComAlison Brie and Lizzy Caplan are sisters in this alternately sweet and brutally real look at dating.
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    Movie Review: Playing for Keeps Can’t Stop Humping Its Own LegGerard Butler and Jessica Biel star.
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    Movie Review: Hyde Park on Hudson — Does This Movie Even Care?If you squint really hard, you could even imagine it as a sequel of sorts to The King’s Speech.
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    Movie Review: The CollectionThe Collection isn’t so much a movie as it is a grab-bag of gruesome ideas, shorn of purpose.
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    Review: Universal Soldier: Day of ReckoningIf more action movies were like Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, the world would probably be a better place.
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    Movie Review: Rise of the GuardiansThis animated film is both hip and gooey enough to make us look forward to the inevitable sequel.
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    James Spader on His Eccentric Lincoln Character“I imagined him as a dandy in decay.”
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    Movie Review: Red Dawn, Red Yawn, Red DumbJohn Milius’s original looks like an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece next to this latest iteration.
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    Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Is a Finale As Lifeless As Its HeroesThis last film in the series reaches over into an extended wallow in camp.
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    Ask an Economist: Which Bond Villain Plan Would Have Worked (and Which Not)?Goldfinger’s, probably. Others, not so much.
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    Movie Review: There’s Method to This Must Be the Place’s MadnessIt’s hard to take Sean Penn’s Kathy Griffin–does–Edward Scissorhands makeup job in seriously, but that’s kind of the point.
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    Movie Review: Wreck-It RalphEnjoyable and likable, though you might find yourself twiddling your thumbs along the way.
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    Chasing Mavericks: This Surfing Movie Is Point BlahHow could two Oscar-nominated filmmakers (Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted) have worked on this stiff surfing movie?
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    Movie Review: Fun Size = Superbad + Halloween + Girls - RaunchThis teen movie, directed by Gossip Girl’s Josh Schwartz, has its moments.
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    Kylie Minogue Takes an Art-House Vacation in Holy Motors“There’s a bit of me that was slowly starving, and I feel like I’d just had my first decent meal in a while.”
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    Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 4Seriously, just cut out the middle part.
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    Here Comes the Boom: A ‘Laugh at the Chubby Guy’ Movie, Sans the LaughsDespite not being particularly funny, this Kevin James film gets a lot of mileage out of its star’s inherent likability.
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    Leighton Meester on The Oranges and Gossip Girl“I think it’s ending at a beautiful, perfect time. But it’s because our contracts are up.”
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    Movie Review: The Paperboy Is the Year’s Most Alienating MovieNicole Kidman does her best impersonation of a diva from outer space.
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    Movie Review: Butter Is One Thinly Spread Political SatireThe onslaught of quirk here is offset only by the onslaught of heavy-handed political allegory.
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    Liv Ullmann on Her Ingmar Bergman DocumentaryIt premieres tonight at the New York Film Festival.
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    Who Cares that Hotel Transylvania Is So One-Note, It’s a Funny NoteAdam Sandler’s animated monster mash-up is pleasantly disposable.
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    Movie Review: Won’t Back Down Is All ClichésThe war between parents and jaded teachers had to be more clever to warrant all the prerelease protests.
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    What Is The Master Really About?: Five InterpretationsOr, it could just be all of them at once.
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    Movie Review: End of WatchThere’s nothing here that you haven’t already seen, but the film has moments so riveting that you might not care too much.
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    Movie Review: Dredd 3D Is One Great Big Beautiful Violent Music VideoAnd there’s nothing wrong with that.
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    A Primer on P.T. Anderson v. Paul W.S. AndersonOther than the obvious ways, of course.
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    Movie Review: 10 YearsLots of stars: Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Rosario Dawson …
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    Movie Review: ArbitrageThis new financial drama places us smack-dab at the center of an amoral universe.
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    Movie Review: Keep the Lights OnIra Sachs’s haunting, melancholy film charts a multi-year love affair between two men.
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    Movie Review: The Possession It’s basically a Jewish version of The Exorcist.
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    Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia Are Now Little Fish“Everyone is laughing at us. Like, ‘Hey, look at your teeny gills!’”
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    Movie Review: Hit and RunKristen Bell and Dax Shepard star in this hybrid car-chase flick–romantic comedy.
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    The Awakening: Every Year Needs a Great Gothic Horror StoryThe Wire’s Dominic West stars alongside Rebecca Hall in this twenties-England-set ghost tale.
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    Movie Review: Sparkle’s Musical Numbers Shine. Everything Else …The good news is, there are great musical numbers in Whitney Houston’s last film. That’s also the bad news.
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    Cosmopolis: Robert Pattinson’s Limo Ride As Epic JourneyRobert Pattinson stars in this adaptation of a Don DeLillo book.
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    Movie Review: ParaNorman Is a Charming, If Ambling, Animated FilmMade by the same studio that did Coraline, this 3-D animated movie is full of nostalgia for shlocky old horror flicks.
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    Movie Review: Why Isn’t The Expendables 2 More Insane?This sequel is aggressively dumb, aggressively macho, and just plain aggressively aggressive.
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    The Odd Life of Timothy Green Is a Ruthless Tear-jerking MachineThis is the movie with the boy who has leaves on his legs.
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    In Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee Tries Something New: PatienceLee’s latest joint is being billed as a return to the personal, low-budget filmmaking that put the director on the map a few decades ago.
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    Movie Review: 2 Days in New YorkJulie Delpy’s follow up to 2 Days in Paris is an assured, sensitive, and occasionally very funny relationship comedy.
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    Movie Review: Meirelles’ 360 Takes the Long Way Round to NowhereThe film arrives just a few years too late to cash in on the “We’re all connected!” genre craze.
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    Movie Review: The WatchScratch the surface of The Watch and you’ll find a lot of anxiety about the neutering of the modern American male.
  44. Movie Review: Red Lights Will Make You Believe in Bad MoviesAt first you might assume the ghostbusting film is a spoof. Sadly, no.
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    Movie Review: Elizabeth Banks Is the Only Real Person in People Like UsThe guys behind Star Trek and Transformers try their hand at a serious human drama set in the real world.
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    Movie Review: Madea’s Witness ProtectionThis time around, Madea just seems spent.
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    Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterDoes any other American president have such an extensive fictional pop-culture mythos?
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    Movie Review: God Help Us, That’s My Boy Is FunnyAdam Sandler. Andy Samberg. Comedy.
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    Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed Is Deceptively HeartfeltOne would expect tons of irony from stars Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass. Thankfully, this is not the case.
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    Movie Review: Peace, Love & Misunderstanding Is Hippie LiteYou can see the plot coming from Yasgur’s farm.
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