Bilge Ebiri

Connecticut, New York

Editor and Film Critic at New York Magazine

Editor and Film Critic at Vulture

"A while longer still in this business."

Featured in: Favicon

nymag.com

vulture.com Favicon

uol.com.br Favicon

msn.com

nytimes.com Favicon

bloomberg.com Favicon

businessinsider.com Favicon

washingtonpost.com Favicon

hollywoodreporter.com Favicon

yahoo.com + 43 more

Articles

Fatma Hassona’s Director ‘Refused to Accept Her Death’

6 days ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Director Sepideh Farsi on the shock of losing Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian subject of her film, in an Israeli missile strike just weeks before its Cannes premiere. The film world was shocked yesterday to learn of the death of Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and the subject of Sepideh Farsi’s documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Why We Still Yearn for Pride and Prejudice

6 days ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation is filled with lovely images, but it’s all still so experiential, like we’re witnessing everything through the characters’ eyes. Joe Wright’s 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice has aged, but it’s done so beautifully. The movie, back in theaters for its 20th anniversary, is well worth a revisit, both for the ways in which it’s changed and for the ways in which it hasn’t.
‘I Refused to Accept Her Death’

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Bilge Ebiri

NowUS revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets? Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo. Hundreds of students and recent graduates have seen their visas revoked by immigration officials since United States President Donald Trump took office for a second time on January 20, 2025, with several also …5 hours agoIs Israel's partition of Gaza a prelude to total control of the enclave?
In Warfare, the Fog of War Is Both a Literal and Spiritual Fact

1 week ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Warfare. Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is an admirable attempt to counter the truism that there’s no such thing as an anti-war movie — that all war movies, however gruesome or wrenching, effectively (and often unwittingly) wind up glamorizing combat to some degree.
In Warfare, the Fog of War Is Both a Literal and Spiritual Fact

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Bilge Ebiri

1 day agoWhether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about. Critic’s Pick It’s not entertaining, and that’s a compliment. Written and directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, this atypical war movie follows a platoon of Navy SEALs during a calamitous …
One to One: John & Yoko Cuts Through the Beatles-Industrial Complex

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

One to One: John & Yoko. One to One, the collective name given to the two Madison Square Garden shows performed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono over the course of one day in August 1972, constituted the only full concert Lennon gave in his post-Beatles career as a solo artist.
Jack Black and Jason Momoa Make A Minecraft Movie a Comic Delight

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Sebastian Hansen in A Minecraft Movie. About halfway through A Minecraft Movie, I started thinking about how nice it was to have Jack Black making films again. Then, I caught myself. Black hasn’t exactly been absent from our screens: Last year he had the megahit Kung Fu Panda 4 and the megaflop Borderlands, and the year before that, he had The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which made more than a billion dollars.
David Ayer Still Wants You to See His Cut of ‘Suicide Squad’

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

David Ayer faced a “dark night of the soul” after the controversy of Suicide Squad. It changed his career. David Ayer on the set of A Working Man. David Ayer on the set of A Working Man. David Ayer on the set of A Working Man. David Ayer, director of A Working Man, has had one of the most deceptively fascinating careers in today’s Hollywood.
The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri |Savannah Salazar

Clockwise from top: Death of a Unicorn, The Studio, The Woman in the Yard, Holland. The hottest trend this week is giving away the plot right in the title of the movie. Films with a unicorn death, a woman in someone’s yard, and a bunch of queer men hanging out are just a handful to watch this weekend. Here’s the rest. It’s in the name! Paul Rudd plays Elliot Kintner, the man who accidentally mows down a unicorn with his daughter, Ridley (Jenna Ortega).
Jason Statham Can Fix Us

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Jason Statham in A Working Man. There’s something to be said for a movie whose emotional high point might be Jason Statham saying good-bye to his gun. The gun in question is an M-14, a rifle that Statham’s character, Levon Cade, is almost queasily familiar with from his 22 years in the military, and it’s the weapon he chooses before going off to mow down the nest of Russian gangsters and drug dealers and human traffickers he’s found himself at war with.