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Bilge Ebiri

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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.

  1. behind the scenes
    OPPENHEIMER
    How Christopher Nolan Crafted the World of OppenheimerThe newly minted Best Picture winner plays out across the landscapes of Los Alamos and Cillian Murphy’s face
  2. vulture lists
    All 12 Christopher Nolan Movies, RankedWhich of the Oscar-winning director’s films are masterpieces and which are merely near-masterpieces?
  3. interview
    OPPENHEIMER
    How Cillian Murphy Found His ‘Resting Physicist’s Face’“My job is to convince the audience that Oppenheimer knows what he’s doing. I really spent most of the time working on his psychology.”
  4. interview
    OPPENHEIMER
    It Sure Feels Good to Have Robert Downey Jr. Onscreen AgainDowney wanted a new experience, and he got it in his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role.
  5. movie review
    Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz Drama Borders on the UnwatchableThe shock of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Auschwitz drama is not in the graphic terrors it depicts, but in what it doesn’t show.
  6. movie review
    Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery FunMillie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.
  7. movie review
    Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for SpacemanSandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
  8. take two
    And the Winners of the 2024 Stunt Awards Are …Over 200 action pros voted on the bruisingest, nakedist, and base-jumpiest achievements of the year.
  9. let’s go
    The 100 Fights That Shaped Action CinemaWhether the scenes featured fists, firearms, or blades, the result was always the same: The crowd was pleased.
  10. high jinks ensue
    The Team That Crammed Every Stunt Imaginable Into The Fall Guy“One of the greatest compliments we got was when the visual-effects supervisor said, ‘I don’t know why I’m here!’”
  11. does your head hurt yet?
    A Backward Movie for an Upside-Down WorldRevisiting Tenet in the wake of Oppenheimer shows us how Christopher Nolan has long been fixated on humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.
  12. movie review
    Let the Hypnotic, Caustic Beauty of About Dry Grasses Consume YouDirector Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes award winner is one of the best films of this or any other year.
  13. backstories
    Why Christopher Nolan Fell in Love With Bulky, Expensive, Way-Too-Loud FilmImax used to be considered odd. The Oppenheimer director can’t resist it.
  14. pretty statues
    Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class PhotoRevisiting 39 years of fancy midday Hollywood hangs.
  15. movie review
    There’s a Great Movie to Be Made About Bob Marley. One Love Is Not It.You’ll leave knowing less about Marley than you did going in.
  16. chapters
    ‘The Last Samurai’ Director Ed Zwick on Tom Cruise’s ‘Intimidating’ EnergyThe Last Samurai director Ed Zwick on the “joyous, challenging, and exhausting” experience of working with Tom Cruise.
  17. movie review
    The Taste of Things Is Ravishing, Delectable, and Maybe Even a Little RadicalStarring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, Tran Anh Hung’s film immediately joins the pantheon of great food movies.
  18. movie review
    Mads Mikkelsen’s Cold, Hard Stare Awaits Us in the Epic Promised LandI cannot adequately express to you how perfect Mikkelsen is in this role; that sensuous frown of his has infinite layers.
  19. movie review
    How to Have Sex Is a Journey Through Euphoria and DreadDirected by Molly Manning Walker, the film’s elliptical style has the quality of a dark, fragile memory.
  20. movie review
    Wim Wenders Has Been Trying to Make Perfect Days His Whole LifeThe director’s latest is probably the best film he’s made since Until the End of the World.
  21. movie review
    Argylle Delivers Twisty-Turny Tedium, But Its Action Scenes Are GreatMatthew Vaughn might not be able to tell a story, but he can choreograph some wild mayhem.
  22. movie review
    The Greatest Night in Pop Is a Huge Blast of Gen-X NostalgiaNetflix’s new documentary about the making of “We Are the World” will be hard to resist for a lot of us.
  23. sundance 2024
    The 15 Best Movies We Saw This Year at SundanceThis year’s slate actually felt like Sundance, like the festival it used to be before it became just another stop on Hollywood’s eternal red carpet.
  24. sundance 2024
    The Chilling War Game Shows Us What America’s Next Insurrection Might Look LikeAnyone who witnessed the real January 6 will find their stomach in knots, though admittedly some of us have had our stomachs in knots for years now.
  25. sundance 2024
    Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in A Real PainJesse Eisenberg’s charming Sundance breakout moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath.
  26. sundance 2024
    Two Friends Talk, Gently and Openly, in Will & HarperThe most powerful parts of Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip documentary are also its most basic.
  27. 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.
  28. one perfect scene
    Ferrari’s Slow-Motion Crash in Nine StepsMichael Mann’s re-creation of a horrifying moment in car-racing history is one of the best cinematic sequences of the season.
  29. sundance 2024
    Love Lies Bleeding Needs More Than Violence and GrandeurRose Glass’s new thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, is passionate and bold, but can rely too much on stylized glimpses of gore.
  30. sundance 2024
    The Outrun Shows Us Saoirse Ronan at Her Most TranscendentDirector Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance drama stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic who’s back in her childhood home in the Orkney Islands.
  31. sundance 2024
    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
  32. sundance 2024
    Love Me Asks Too Many QuestionsKristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of Wall-E that is furiously literal-minded.
  33. sundance 2024
    Two Iconic Oddballs Make the Perfect Pair in Between the TemplesNathan Silver’s clever Sundance comedy stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, two iconic weirdos from different eras of American cinema.
  34. sundance 2024
    The Moving Ibelin Captures a Life Only Seemingly Half-LivedBenjamin Ree’s powerful new Sundance documentary gently uncovers a dying young man’s online life, full of love, connection, and humor.
  35. sundance 2024
    21 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Sundance Film FestivalThe horror movies we’re watching at midnight, a Kristen Stewart double feature, and the Lucy Liu and Julia Fox team-up of our dreams.
  36. vulture lists
    The 28 Best Movies Released During the January Dead ZoneJanuary is often thought of as Hollywood’s prime “dump month” — but sometimes it surprises us.
  37. action!
    The Second Annual Stunt Awards Are HereVulture’s yearly celebration of stunt professionals — and the action movies they make great — is back.
  38. jason statham
    The 25 Worst Ways to Be Killed by Jason StathamStatham has a unique ability to maintain his stone-faced demeanor in even the most ridiculous of fatal circumstances.
  39. movie review
    Netflix’s New Heist Movie Lift Wastes a Fun CastKevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Vincent D’Onofrio are trying to steal Jean Reno’s gold. Somehow, we don’t really care.
  40. movie review
    Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest, Slipperiest of ThingsIt’s not Martin Scorsese’s western, and it’s not another gangster epic. It’s his marriage story.
  41. endings
    The ‘Unresolved’ Tensions at the End of Ferrari, Explained by Michael MannMichael Mann breaks down the moments that turn Ferrari from a racing picture into an intimate tale of parental grief.
  42. vulture lists
    The 39 Greatest Car Movies Ever MadeGearhead classics, modern blockbusters, art-house favorites, and even some genuine obscurities.
  43. movie review
    The Boys in the Boat Is Better Than You’ve HeardDirected by George Clooney, this period rowing drama is the kind of unfussy medium-budget prestige pic Hollywood rarely makes anymore.
  44. in conversation
    Michael Mann’s Decadeslong Drive to Make FerrariThe director on his inspiration rooms, clubbing with cocaine importers, and the obsessive research that went into his new movie.
  45. movie review
    In Ferrari, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and DeathMichael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.
  46. movie review
    The Push-Pull of Brutality and Joy at the Heart of The Color PurpleThe movie musical adaptation of the classic novel (and film) carves out its own path.
  47. 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.
  48. movie review
    Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are So Weirdly Right Together in MemoryNot a lot of Michel Franco’s somber drama makes sense, but it’s a movie clearly meant to be carried by its leads.
  49. movie review
    Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Is a Visionary SlogThe first part of his Star Wars–ish Netflix saga looks amazing but has lifeless characters and little excitement.
  50. movie review
    There’s No Heroism or Fantasy in John Woo’s Brutal Silent NightIn his latest action thriller, the director foregrounds grief and pain over the balletic mayhem of his previous work.
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