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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Why Was The Abyss a Flop?Critics and audiences rejected James Cameron’s underwater “nightmare” in 1989. But its imperfections only add to its deranged grandeur.
Picking His FightsThe twists and turns of Jake Gyllenhaal’s unlikely, unsettling action career have brought him to Road House.
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We Don’t Know AnythingThe Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom thriller and a marital drama, but it’s also about how we’ve lost the ability to grasp reality.
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Bustin’ Makes Me Feel BlehIn Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the jokes are witless, the emotions artless, and the film joyless.
