Bilge Ebiri is a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and the Criterion Collection, among others.
Could a Documentary Win at Cannes This Year?Nonfiction has been notoriously absent from past competition lineups, but two well-regarded docs may have a chance at the 2023 Palme d’Or.
Takeshi Kitano Kills AgainSome directors’ late films are stripped-down, austere, deliberately paced; Kitano seems to be going in the opposite direction, god bless him.
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Wes Anderson Has Gone MadHis new movie, Asteroid City, brings a necessary madness to the meticulous director’s method, and it amounts to a masterpiece.
Let’s Watch Some Nazis ExplodeIf Sergio Leone had directed Crank: High Voltage, it might have looked a little like Sisu, a crazy new action movie from Finland.
The Best Movies of 2023 (So Far)This year has already brought a bounty of independent, meticulously assembled cinematic stunners along with American studio curiosities.
The Pope’s Exorcist Is a Huge Joke (on Us)The film allows Russell Crowe to have fun with the part of a demon-hunting Italian priest, but it forgets to have fun along with him.
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Cocaine Bear Is, in Fact, a MovieElizabeth Banks’s comedy-action thriller is half kids’ adventure, half slasher flick, all cult movie.
Super Troopers Continues to Slow BurnBroken Lizard reunited to talk lethal soap, liters of cola, too much syrup, and the perks of having made a modern cult classic.
The Cult of DanielsHow the directors of the universe-hopping kung fu family drama Everything Everywhere All at Once became unlikely Oscar front-runners.
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This Is a Cry for HelpNobody in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania looks like they want to be there. They don’t even look like they know where there is.