MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:

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
    Fly Me to the Moon Is Just Good Enough to Make You Wish It Were BetterScarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum are terrific, and the cast is clearly having fun, but the movie is mostly just a pleasant trifle.
  2. movie review
    Longlegs Is Mostly TerrifyingThis tense, odd thriller mines the horror of ordinary people compelled to do terrible things — an unnerving reflection of modern anxieties.
  3. deep dives
    The Discomforting Legacy of Wendy TorranceShelley Duvall’s performance in The Shining is just one of the many bold, perplexing aspects of Stanley Kubrick’s beloved adaptation.
  4. best of 2024
    The Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)A sprawling western, a thrilling prequel, and a nonagenarian who finally gets a starring role worthy of her talents.
  5. cannes 2024
    Horizon: An American Saga Is Dune: Part One for DadsHi, I’m dads.
  6. movie review
    I Never Want to See This Movie AgainThe Devil’s Bath, a twisted horror drama from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, is both deeply captivating and deeply upsetting.
  7. movie review
    Dakota Johnson Is Actually Great in DaddioSean Penn is better than he’s been in years in Christy Hall’s old-fashioned strangers-in-a-cab drama. But Johnson nearly acts him off the screen.
  8. movie review
    Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look CoolGeorge Miller’s Fury Road sequel is a thrill, but also bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
  9. endings
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s Fantastically Demented Ending, ExplainedGeorge Miller’s Fury Road prequel has one of the bleakest, most twisted endings of any studio franchise movie in recent history.
  10. cannes 2024
    Sicko Yorgos Is BackYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness delights and luxuriates in absurdity and abasement. He’s fully back in his sandbox.
  11. movie review
    You’ll Never Forget the Things You See in Green BorderAgnieszka Holland’s award-winning epic refugee drama is a riveting, devastating piece of work.
  12. movie review
    Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a LifetimeJosh Margolin’s Sundance comedy, about an elderly woman on a quest to find the crooks who scammed her, never feels lazy, cheap, or cruel.
  13. movie review
    A Regal, Repugnant Jude Law Almost Saves FirebrandHe seems to be the only one on the right wavelength for this heated, fictionalized take on Katherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII.
  14. movie review
    Monkey Man Is a Solid Action Thriller, But It Clearly Wants to Be MoreDev Patel’s directorial debut has amazing fight scenes, but it also overdoses on religious imagery and mythical overtones.
  15. movie review
    Read Only the First Paragraph of This Ghostlight ReviewSometimes, a movie is too delicate and beautiful to know too much about it going in.
  16. movie review
    Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its AudienceThe new Ava DuVernay film is both essay and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice.
  17. movie review
    These Bad Boys Sequels Need More Gonzo Action SpectacleIn Ride or Die, Martin Lawrence does a nice job vigorously slapping Will Smith a few times. But where are the over-the-top set pieces?
  18. movie review
    If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him OneRichard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
  19. movie review
    Robot Dreams Is a Good Robot Movie and a Great New York MoviePablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated animated fable is an enchanting tale of friendship against a changing city.
  20. cameos
    What Exactly Was Mad Max Doing in Furiosa?Tom Hardy’s Fury Road stunt double appears as Mad Max in one brief cameo. But George Miller might have plans to explain this little passage.
  21. the fall guys
    Here’s the Real Reason Why There’s Still No Oscar for Best StuntsIt’s a lousy argument, not to mention an offensive one.
  22. movie review
    Behold, an Actually Good Omen MovieThe First Omen is surprisingly topical, reflecting back societal fears in the form of genre thrills.
  23. at the box office
    Movies Like Furiosa Were Never Meant to Save HollywoodWe’re still expecting tentpole results from non-tentpole movies.
  24. cannes 2024
    The 12 Best Movies We Saw at Cannes This YearA Brighton Beach stripper saga, an absurdist Canadian satire, a body-horror fable, and all the movies we’ll be yelling about in the months to come.
  25. cannes 2024
    It’s No Wonder That Cannes Fell for AnoraThere are wild moments in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner that feel like real life letting itself in through the door and upending the narrative décor.
  26. cannes 2024
    We’ll All Soon Be Talking About the Absurdist On Becoming a Guinea FowlThe Cannes prizewinner will soon be released in the U.S. by A24. Its off-kilter, absurdist vibe is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror.
  27. cannes 2024
    George Lucas Is Being Cranky at CannesAnd, no, he will not re-releasing his original versions of the first Star Wars trilogy anytime soon, thank you.
  28. chapters
    ‘That’s Our Bond!’What it took to turn a relatively little-known, working-class actor named Sean Connery into the high-living, suave James Bond.
  29. movie review
    Civil War Isn’t the Movie You Think It IsAlex Garland’s war epic is more about how we respond to images of conflict than it is about the conflict itself.
  30. cannes 2024
    The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian ComedyMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
  31. cannes 2024
    Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Is As Beguiling As It Is AlienatingOnly Sorrentino could pull off something like this.
  32. sxsw 2024
    The Fall Guy Is a Funny, Romantic, Stunt-Filled DelightRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt have terrific chemistry in this action-packed movie adaptation of the hit 1980s TV series.
  33. cannes 2024
    The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes OnDirector Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
  34. cannes 2024
    If Only David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Weren’t So LifelessThere’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.
  35. cannes 2024
    We’ll Be Yelling About Emilia Pérez Long After Cannes EndsMost people at the 2024 film festival seem to love the movie, and the ones that hate it, really hate it.
  36. cannes 2024
    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainThe legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin’s latest, which just premiered at Cannes, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
  37. cannes 2024
    Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced DeathRichard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
  38. cannes 2024
    Megalopolis Is a Work of Absolute MadnessThere is nothing in Francis Ford Coppola’s perhaps-final testament that feels like something out of a “normal” movie.
  39. cannes 2024
    What’s at Cannes? Furiosa, Francis Ford Coppola, Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump.This year’s Cannes Film Festival is filled with big-name auteurs, big-name stars, and visions of doom.
  40. movie review
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Lacks the Power of Its PredecessorsThe apes look amazing, and this franchise still has a lot on its mind.
  41. movie review
    Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few MinutesThe night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium.
  42. movie review
    How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
  43. behind the scenes
    The Fall Guy Wasn’t Always a Love StoryMaking one of the year’s most romantic movies was a death-defying stunt in itself.
  44. redemption arc
    One of the Biggest Movie Flops of the Year Is a Streaming Hit. Now What?Argylle was chainsawed by critics, rejected by initial audiences, and is proving theatrical releases are worth it anyway.
  45. movie review
    The Bone-Chilling Infested Is Spiders All the Way DownThe first time an army of tiny spider-babies appeared, my body bent into a shape it has never taken before or since.
  46. movie review
    Anyone But You Has More Sex on Its Mind Than Your Average Rom-ComMovies keep trying to bring back the romantic comedy. This Glen Powell–Sydney Sweeney vehicle might actually bring back the sex comedy instead.
  47. vulture lists
    The Stoner Canon: Over 100 Trippy Movies, Albums, Books, TV Shows, and MoreThe ultimate guide to experiencing the high.
  48. movie review
    What If We Didn’t Know Abigail Was a Vampire Movie?Oh, sorry, did I just ruin it?
  49. movie review
    David Dastmalchian Deserves to Be a StarAs a beleaguered talk-show host, he carries the new horror film Late Night With the Devil.
  50. saint francis vs the philistines
    Hollywood Is Doomed If There’s No Room for MegalopolisesFrancis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want. It’s not surprising, but it is depressing.
More Articles