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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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    Chernobyl Diaries Writer on Radioactive Terrors“Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.”
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    Movie Review: Elizabeth Banks Deserves Better Than What to ExpectInsipid gender dynamics and an unfocused plot sink this self-help-book-based comedy.
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    Hysteria: A Demure Movie About Sex ToysThe production values will bring to mind Merchant-Ivory, but the real inspiration might be Walt Disney.
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    Dustin Lance Black Agreed With Virginia Critics “I got beaten up by critics, in some ways deservedly so. So I went to my producer and I said, ‘We have to cut this thing.’”
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    Movie Review: Hick Is Instantly ForgettableFor a movie that deals with rape and criminality, Hick is whisper-thin and instantly forgettable.
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    Movie Review: Where Do We Go Now? Mirrors the Absurdity of WarA poignant and occasionally breathtaking movie about the civil war in Lebanon.
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    Movie Review: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Is Sweet But Clichéd Maggie Smith saves the day, as usual.
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    Jenna Fischer on Her Inner Pam Beesly“I spent my formative years as kind of a wallflower … wondering how am I ever going to make my dreams come true.”
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    Rich Sommer on Harry Crane’s Mad Men Future“I would love for him to remain the lovable douchebag that he is.”
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    Alex Karpovsky on His Two Tribeca Films, the Coen Brothers, and Girls“It’s pretty groovy that something is already getting meta-meta-meta critical responses to it.”
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    Movie Review: The Ruthless Precision of The Moth DiariesThis boarding school vampire movie is icy and exacting and makes your skin crawl.
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    Movie Review: Think Like a Man Is Better Than Your Average Rom-ComThis is the battle of the sexes reimagined as competing reading groups.
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    Movie Review: Zac Efron Is Bad at Brooding in The Lucky OneHis beard looks painted on, and so does his edge.
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    Movie Review: Detention Is a Future Cult ClassicThis frantic, deranged mash-up is being billed as a hip teen slasher movie, but it’s more like The Breakfast Club meets Donnie Darko.
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    Movie Review: Wrath of the Titans Is a Missed Opportunity It’s better than Clash, but it’s still not particularly good.
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    Movie Review: The Ultraviolent Goon Is Also UltrastrangeIt’s a cross between The Waterboy and Raging Bull.
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    Movie Reviews: The Meditative Deep Blue Sea and Murderous The Raid: Redemption Terence Davies directs a raw, emotional tale of adultery; Gareth Huw Evans makes violence equally repulsive and compelling. 
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    Nicolas Cage and January Jones Make Deadly Opposites in Seeking JusticeHe’s not up to his usual apoplexy, but next to the somnambulant Jones, anyone would seem like they were.
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    Alexander Payne on The Descendants, the Contraception Battle, and the Japanese Sideways“Oh, God, it’s unwatchable.”
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    Movie Review: An Overly Cartoonish Eddie Murphy Ruins A Thousand WordsMurphy hams it up to such an unnatural degree that he scrubs every moment clean of wit or charm.
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    Director Andrew Stanton on His Sci-Fi Fantasy Epic John Carter and Why He’s Hoping for a Trilogy“It’s really like we’ve made the pilot to a season we’re hoping to get.”
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    Movie Review: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Is Irreverent, Zany, and Sometime BoringAs is traditional, a surreal smorgasbord of poop, disease, penile mutilation, and carnage ensues.
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    Movie Review: The Hedonistic, Plotless, Deeply Adolescent Project XThink Girls Gone Wild meets Black Hawk Down.
  24. Movie Review: Gone Tries for Absurdist, and Not in a Good WayThis just takes the whole what’s-reality-and-what’s-in-her-head schtick too far.
  25. Movie Review: Tyler Perry’s Dry, Dull Good DeedsIt’s enough to make you miss Madea.
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    Movie Review: Act of Valor, an Excellent Recruitment Video and a Subpar MovieSo, what does a movie starring real-life Navy SEALs doing (sort of) real-life Navy SEAL things look like?
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    Movie Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Doesn’t Go Far Enough Over the TopDespite the coked-out charm of the directors from Crank.
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    Movie Review: Thin Ice, the Not-Quite FargoClose, but no wood chipper.
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    Movie Review: The Imagination-Lacking Journey 2: Mysterious Island It’s tough to hate a movie that tries so hard not to take itself seriously, but Journey 2: The Mysterious Island sure makes us come close.
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    Movie Review: The Vow Lacks ChemistryAs a romantic, Channing Tatum’s a black hole of charisma.
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    Movie Review: Big Miracle Is a Minnow of a TaleThere’s a good movie to be made out of this real-life 1988 whale rescue. This ain’t it.
  32. Movie Review: Madonna’s W.E. Is a Mess, But an Interesting One Madonna knows something about movement, attraction, and seduction.
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    Movie Review: Chronicle Is the Angry Teen’s Superhero Movie … in a Good WayInstead of using masks and big CGI battles, it shows what a sullen adolescent might actually do with superpowers.
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    Movie Review: Don’t Spend Money on One for the MoneyThe only tension generated comes from the awkwardness of watching actors who clearly don’t want to be anywhere near each other.
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    Brady Corbet Talks Sundance’s Simon Killer, Art Cinema, and Steak Tartare“I never read reviews, but I’ve been reading every review I can find of this one.”
  36. Sundance Day 7 Buzz Meter: Bradley Cooper Tries to Find The WordsAnd Emily Blunt gets sisterly.
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    Sundance Day 6 Buzz Meter: David Duchovny’s Disappointing Goat ManAnd phone sex comedy For a Good Time Call …
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    Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on Save the Date and Her Raunchy Comedy BacheloretteIn which she gives a monologue about blow jobs.
  39. Sundance Day 5 Buzz Meter: Chris Rock’s Culture ClashAlso buzzy: Common goes dramatic, and Stanley Kubrick conspiracy theories.
  40. Sundance Day 4 Buzz Meter: John Krasinski’s Infidelities, Alison Brie’s Wedding BluesPlus new movies starring Aubrey Plaza and Aaron Paul.
  41. What’s It Like to Be Heckled at Sundance? One Director Tells AllCraig Zobel’s controversial new film Compliance provoked an extreme audience reaction.
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    Movie Review: More of the Same in Underworld: AwakeningThere’s less heavy-handed mythology, more heads exploding.
  43. Movie Review: The Lifeless Red Tails It’s an uncertain hodgepodge of impulses and desires that never coheres enough to even crash and burn. 
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    Movie Review: The Admirably Dingy, Grimy Action Flick ContrabandIt’s an atmospheric, effectively nasty, quietly tense film that’s a lot more than one can hope for in the dog days of January.
  45. Movie Review: New Year’s Eve, Too Much of a Not Very Good ThingA movie that’s supposed to have something for everybody winds up having nothing for anybody.
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    Movie Review: Jonah Hill’s Inconsistently Funny The SitterThis is one confused movie. That’s  not wholly bad.
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    Movie Review: The Impossibly Arty Sleeping Beauty“Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina will be a temple.”
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    Movie Review: Takeshi Kitano’s Stifling and Beautiful OutrageEven when a guy is getting stabbed in the ear with a chopstick, Outrage is totally controlled.
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    Movie Review: Woody Harrelson Anchors the Feverish RampartDon’t look for easy resolutions or clear narrative lines here.
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    Movie Review: The Touching Pop Nostalgia of The MuppetsWe’ll see what the kids do, but don’t be surprised if the grown-ups find themselves singing along.
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