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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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    Love the Coopers Sells Its Tired Premise WellThe film isn’t unique, but the careful details, and stacked cast, make it work.
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    Christopher Abbott Carries the Sublime, Dreamlike James WhiteYou know, Charlie from Girls.
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    The Troubled, Troubling By the Sea’s Power Sneaks Up on YouThe whole movie is sort of a Rorschach test.
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    Review: Trumbo Doesn’t Know What It Wants to BeUnfortunately, Oscar bait no more.
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    The 25 Best Cold-Open Action Scenes in Film HistoryFeaturing Bond, Holmes, and… Monty Python?
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    Of Men and War Depicts the Horror of PTSDThe film is a tapestry of despair, one defined by its persistence.
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    Theeb Comes By Its Beauty HonestlyThe film plays like a corrective to Lawrence of Arabia.
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    Review: The Peanuts Movie Surprises and CharmsA movie that could have really missed the football manages to transcend its tech-y aesthetic.
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    Laura Harring’s Car Crash Was a Sign That She Belonged in Mulholland Dr.Plus other memories of working with David Lynch, a “genius beyond comprehension.”
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    The Story of Sembene!: How Ousmane Sembene Invented African CinemaHe literally created an African film industry out of nothing.
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    The Unflinching, Beautiful Armor of Light Isn’t Afraid to ‘Go There’Guns and God collide in this relentless documentary.
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    The 3-D Love Makes Sex Look Awesome and SadMost movies stopped making sex look so glamorous a long time ago.
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    Scouts Guide to Zombie Apocalypse is UninspiredThere’s also a big zombie penis.
  14. The 25 Best Horror Movies Since The ShiningYes, the number one pick should be considered a horror movie, hear us out.
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    The 50 Best Foreign-Language Movie-Musicals EverGo beyond the Bollywood hits and the Jacques Demy masterpieces with this, the ultimate watch list for foreign-film fans and movie-musical buffs alike.
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    Bone Tomahawk Is Strange and Unflinching If The Searchers crossbred with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it might spawn something like Bone Tomahawk.
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    Words Cannot Describe How Insane the Kung-fu Musical Tokyo Tribe Is“Cop these slammin’ beats from the ass-end of hell!” says a DJ grandma.
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    Suffragette Passes the Time But Fails to Engage Its Timely ThemesThe film has a lot of things to say but is betrayed by a lack of focus and depth.
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    Way to Ruin Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Human CharactersJust like the last two movies in the franchise, this Paranormal Activity doesn’t work, but it does have its moments.
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    The Last Witch Hunter Review: A Fun World WastedThere’s no one here to show some wonder or curiosity as a way of bringing us into this story.
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    How Steven Spielberg Became Willing to Go ThereIn his later works, he has shown a surprising willingness to examine the issues of his day.
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    The Goosebumps Movie Is Fast, Witty, and DelightfulThe movie version of Goosebumps is a cheerful, nasty delight.
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    Movie Review: Crimson PeakIt doesn’t always seem to know what it wants to be. But it’s still full of marvels.
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    Stephen Daldry’s Trash Is a Recyclable Scavenger HuntThere’s a lot of chasing stuff and not much depth here.
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    Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room Is RidiculousThere is a 99 percent chance this will be the weirdest movie you see all year.
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    You Won’t Know Whether to Laugh, Cry, or Scream at (T)error The documentary delves deeply into discomforting truths and lies.
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    Knock Knock Is Eli Roth’s Least-Bad MovieKeanu Reeves is tortured by sexy, half-naked girls who promise him pizza.
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    There’s No Magic in Pan The approach here is less “classic fable” and more “patchwork blockbuster.” 
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    Movie Review: The Oddly Light Labyrinth of LiesThe Holocaust film is strangely light on its feet. 
  30. vulture lists
    Ranking the Actors Who Played Steve Wozniak, From Worst to BestBut who’s the real Woz? Not even Woz himself, it turns out.
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    Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Is a Strange, Wonderful FilmPanahi may be a terrible driver, but he’s become a world-class chronicler.
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    Movie Review: The Listless Freeheld FizzlesA cause does not a movie make.
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    Mississippi Grind Is a Gambling Movie That Comes Out AheadIt’s as much about the gamble of friendship as it is about friends gambling.
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    Finders Keepers Captures Something IneffableThe documentary accomplishes a lot in 82 svelte minutes.
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    Hotel Transylvania 2 Is Minor But PleasantSandler springs back to life in animated form.
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    13 Films to See at the New York Film FestivalMatt Damon on Mars is just the beginning. 
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    Movie Review: The InternThe Intern straddles both Nancy Myers’s weaknesses and her strengths. 
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    Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall Fails on Almost Every LevelWe should be celebrating this movie, but it’s very difficult to do so.
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    Director Bruce Beresford Reflects on His CareerFrom Driving Miss Daisy to Breaker Morant to Mister Johnson.
  40. The Cut Is About Humanity, Not EvilThe film asks, but doesn’t necessarily answer, the question, “How should art tackle great historical evil?”
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    Prophet’s Prey Takes on Fundamentalist ChurchRife with horrifying details, the documentary works almost like a thriller.
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    The Quiet Captive Fades Out Before It Has Us ConvincedIt winds up building to a big nothing.
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    The Ambition of Everest Isn’t in Its Grandeur, But Rather Its MenaceEverything goes to hell.
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    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Is Shaky, But Eventually Finds Its WayThe Scorch Trials gets good when the character-actor cavalry arrives.
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    Welcome to Leith Depicts Very Real MonstersThe terrifying documentary concerns a small town of neo-Nazis in North Dakota.
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    Coming Home Is a Moving Reunion Between Zhang Yimou and Gong LiNobody shoots Gong Li like Zhang Yimou does.
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    Review: The Perfect Guy Never Gets Crazy EnoughThe Perfect Guy is the kind of movie you keep wishing would just cut loose and go off the deep end. 
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    The Golden Dream Is More Poetry Than PoliticsIt presents us with unspeakable horrors, but it refuses to rub our faces in them.
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    Black Panthers Is an Admiring Look at the GroupThe film covers a vast historical arc that remains relevant.
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    The Transporter: Refueled Is Stupid-Fun, But You’ll Miss Jason StathamThe Transporter: Refueled is stupid, stupid, stupid — and it certainly knows it.
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