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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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.
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.
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.
American Cinema’s Looking-Glass PrinceNo one played an emotionally stunted protagonist out of step with the world around him as well as the late Ryan O’Neal.