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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.

  1. movie review
    Movie Review: The Striking and Strikingly Generic ImmortalsLots to see, little to ponder.
  2. Why the Great Directors Should Leave 3-D to the Shlockmeisters3-D is perfect for gross-outs and gratuitous violence, not the subtle work of Spielberg, Scorsese, and Pixar.
  3. movie review
    Movie Review: The Earnest and Subversive A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’Harold & Kumar’ is a perfectly calibrated Christmas cheer machine designed to prove the awesomeness of friends, family, and drugs.
  4. not close enough encounters
    Four Ways Steven Spielberg TV Shows Feel Like Bad Spielberg Knockoffs’Terra Nova,’ ‘Falling Skies,’ and ‘Seaquest DSV’ share all the themes of a Spielberg movie, but with none of the flair.
  5. chat room
    Werner Herzog on His 3-D Cave Doc and Avoiding U.S. Citizenship“I find it difficult to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.”
  6. exclusive
    Watch a Clip From The Swell Season, the Documentary About the Stars of OnceGlen Hansard and Markéta Irglová fell in love filming ‘Once.’ This documentary shows how their romance unraveled.
  7. chat room
    Sam Shepard on His Butch Cassidy Movie, Blackthorn“This is so different from the original ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’ It’s not a buddy movie.”
  8. chat room
    Adrien Brody on How His New Indie, Wrecked, Is Like The PianistHe plays a guy trapped in a totaled car.
  9. vulture lists
    10 of Elizabeth Taylor’s Most Notable RolesFrom ‘National Velvet’ to ‘The Flintstones.’
  10. chat room
    Shaggy Oscar Winner Luke Matheny Talks About His Stint As the Most Recognizable Man in Hollywood“I guess right now I’m just in a zip code where everyone saw the Oscars last night.”
  11. inception
    Six New Things We Learned From the Inception Blu-rayAll that water imagery might be more important than previously thought.
  12. math
    Vulture’s Math-Based Guide to Clint Eastwood MoviesHow can you tell if a Clint movie will be a masterpiece or a disaster? We’ve come up with a handy formula!
  13. docs
    Vulture Handicaps This Year’s Documentary Oscar Race’Inside Job’! ‘Catfish’! ‘Waiting for “Superman”’! ‘Jackass 3-D’!
  14. chat room
    Hatchet II Villain Kane Hodder Talks of His Killer Training As Friday the 13th’s JasonHe fondly shares the tale of making a 9-year-old pee himself with fear.
  15. chat room
    Gaspar Noé on Why Enter the Void Is Avatar for the Art Crowd: Both Are ‘Like Taking Drugs’“‘Avatar’ is very mind-blowing — or eye-blowing, maybe — especially in 3-D.”
  16. right on
    Can the Ronald Reagan Biopic Save Liberal Movies?Would ‘Platoon’ have had the same urgency if not for ‘Rambo’?
  17. chat room
    Romain Duris Finally Lightens Up“I kept asking, ‘Why do you want me in this movie?’”
  18. questionable docs
    Joaquin and the Rise of the Questionable Doc“For the past seventeen minutes, I’ve been lying my head off.”
  19. steven seagal
    Can Machete Make Us Like Steven Seagal?A funny thing happened while we watched Robert Rodriguez’s latest Mexploitation flick last week: We were actually enjoying a Steven Seagal performance.
  20. the star market
    Star Market: Julia RobertsWe spoke to Hollywood insiders, did the research, and analyzed the results: If Julia Roberts were a stock, should you buy, sell, or hold?
  21. chat room
    Hugh Hefner on Why All of His Critics Are Wrong“If women weren’t sex objects, then we’d never have a second generation.”
  22. the star market
    Star Market: Zac EfronLet’s do the numbers!
  23. movies
    The Most Violent Director in Movies, Valhalla Rising’s Nicolas Winding Refn, Explains His Most Brutal ScenesIt’s art! Just not art for the remotely squeamish.
  24. at the cinema
    When to hit the Bathroom During InceptionTwo golden opportunities.
  25. the industry
    The Kids Are All Right Breaks the Sundance CurseA stunning opening weekend is one sign that festival favorites may be doing better at the box office.
  26. darkest hour of the night
    Don’t Give Up on M. Night ShyamalanAll vitriol aside, the man’s got talents. He just needs to remember what they are.
  27. chat room
    Jennifer Lawrence on Winter’s BoneThe 20-year-old actress talks about breaking into Hollywood, getting into the head of her character, and working on ‘The Beaver.’
  28. new battle
    The New Face of War DocumentariesTwo movies now showing bypass editorializing about the war to instead give us a ground-level view of the conflict.
  29. chat room
    Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on His New Film, MicmacsThe French director talks about creating fantasy with his films and why the Hollywood system is flawed.
  30. cannes 2010
    Rating Mike Leigh’s New Film on the Miserable IndexWe rank his body of work, from “Downright chipper!” to “Just kill us now.”
  31. protests
    Attack of the Cult Flicks!Enough with the good-bad movies.
  32. roll clip!
    Montage Man Chuck Workman on the Politics of the Oscar Death Clip ReelThe ‘Visionaries’ director got told who’s in and who’s out of this year’s dead-guy roll call.
  33. chat room
    Barry Levinson on You Don’t Know JackThe director talks about America’s changing tastes, why it’s hard to get a film in theaters, and working with a young David Simon.
  34. chat room
    Juan José Campanella on The Secret in Their EyesThe director talks about ‘The Secret in Their Eyes,’ learning the lessons on Argentina’s past, and how his movie is like ‘Law & Order: SVU’ “on steroids.”
  35. chat room
    James Ivory on The City of Your Final DestinationThe director speaks about losing his longtime partner, working with Paul Newman, and his place in the industry.
  36. tribeca film festival
    Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal on the Tribeca Film FestivalThe festival finds a new outlet for its big, and often risky, ambitions.
  37. chat room
    The Eclipse’s Ciaran Hinds on Playing a Regular Guy, for Once“I’m wondering how the heck I ended up playing those roles.”
  38. chat room
    Director Marco Bellocchio on VincereThe Italian director discusses his depictions of madness, his political tendencies, and his relationship with his country’s critics.
  39. chat room
    Michael Shannon on The RunawaysThe Oscar-nominated actor discusses why he’s thought of as a brooder, how the rock legend he’s playing feels about it, and his part in ‘Boardwalk Empire. ’
  40. chat room
    Bong Joon-ho on the American Host Remake“Kim Hye-ja said to me, ‘I want you to push me to the edge of the cliff.’”
  41. chat room
    Crispin Glover on Alice in Wonderland“People don’t really come up to you and say, ‘Oh, I thought you were gonna be really crazy.’”
  42. kudos
    Somebody From The Hurt Locker Probably Should Have Thanked Critics at the OscarsBigelow and Co. thanked everybody in their Oscar speeches except for, amazingly, the one group that proved most key in their awards-season success.
  43. chat room
    Secret of Kells Director on His Oscar Nod“We didn’t want that ‘Shrek’ kind of mentality.”
  44. Guide to the Oscar ShortsYour complete guide to these surprisingly popular — and tough to call — nominees.
  45. chat room
    Man on Wire’s James Marsh on Red Riding Trilogy “When he came to the production, he had spiky hair and all that. And I said to him, ‘I’m going to give you a Hitler haircut.’”
  46. j.d. salinger
    See The Iranian Salinger Adaptation He Had BannedSadly, our hopes for an Iranian ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ remain, as yet, unrealized.
  47. sundance
    Sundance: Gaspar Noe On Enter the Void, Avatar, and Magic Mushrooms“I’m sure he must have done some ‘mental research’ before he made that movie.”
  48. best of the fest
    Sundance 2010: The Revenge of the DocumentariesWhen the lineup for this year’s Sundance Film Festival was announced, doc-watchers everywhere oohed and aahed at the murderer’s row of documentarians on the schedule.
  49. sundance
    Sundance Goes Populist, and Downsizing Drama The Company Men Is the Festival’s First HitRebels and downsizing dramas are in this year.
  50. chat room
    A Serious Man’s Fred Melamed: ‘I’m Trying to Bring the Pompous, Jewish, Overweight, Rabbinic Figure Back to the Center of American Sexuality’“My mother, back when ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ came out, said to me, ‘You know, I met Philip Roth’s mother … and she doesn’t have an accent!’”
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