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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How Great Was Amy Poehler in Inside Out?“Joy’s journey and Poehler’s acting allow us to realize something else. We’re watching Riley grow up, to be sure — this is a coming-of-age tale par excellence — but we’re also watching Joy grow up.”
Aloha Is a Dopey, Slightly Charming MessCameron Crowe’s Aloha is a delightful disaster — the kind of catastrophe that might also remind you why you loved a certain filmmaker in the first place.
George Miller’s Post-Nuclear FamiliesOver and over, in his cinema, families are threatened, destroyed, and fortified, and sometimes wildly different ones are rebuilt out of the ashes of the old.
Movie Review: The Water DivinerThe Water Diviner’s real problem is that it doesn’t really know what to do with the profound concepts it’s trying to tackle.
Movie Review: Lambert & StampYou’d probably have to be a pretty big music nerd to get excited for a tell-all movie about the Who’s managers … right? Wrong.
