William Bibbiani is an award-winning film critic and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Critics Choice Association (CCA) and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. He has written film criticism for over 20 years and written for The Wrap since 2019. He is a frequent guest on KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand. Bibbiani also co-hosts The Critically Acclaimed Network, a series of podcasts dedicated to new, classic and cult film and TV reviews and retrospectives. His commentary tracks and essays can be found on Blu-ray special editions for films released by Arrow Video, Shout! Factory and Umbrella Entertainment. You can follow him on BlueSky (and various other social media).
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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: This Lazy Junk Will Probably Make a Billion Dollars
The latest animated “Super Mario Bros.” movie has no imagination, barely tells a story and wastes everyone’s time
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‘The Drama’ Review: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson Are Amazing, but the Film’s Dark Secret Is Almost Too Unsettling
A last-minute revelation threatens to ruin a wedding, and lives, in Kristoffer Borgli’s dark, uncomfortably Woody Allen-esque comedy
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‘The Serpent’s Skin’ Review: Lo-Fi Trans Fantasy Proves Counterculture Reigns Supreme
Alice Maio Mackay’s eccentric indie pastiche rips the heart out of popular culture and bequeaths it to true outsiders
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The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century That Predicted Our Troubling Times
Make way for bitter cautionary tales about AI ruining Hollywood and action-packed warnings about everything we’re already doing right now
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‘The Fox’ Review: This Grim Australian Fairy Tale Lets Jai Courtney Be Wonderfully Weird
SXSW 2026: The “Dangerous Animals” star is in top form again in a dark, eccentric comedy about marriage and talking animals
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‘Slanted’ Review: Amy Wang’s Teen Sci-Fi Transformation Thriller Struggles With Its Allegory
Shirley Chen and Mckenna Grace play the same character — a Chinese immigrant who becomes white — in a film that unevenly explores the real-world analogues behind its premise
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‘The Gates’ Review: Mason Gooding and James Van Der Beek Star in a Thriller Without Thrills
In his final feature film performance, the late Van Der Beek plays a racist religious leader trying to silence a trio of Black friends who witness a murder
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Every Oscar-Nominated Diane Warren Song, Ranked From Flamin’ Hot to Totally Fire
The songwriter behind “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” and “How Do I Live” has been nominated 17 times, but she’s never won (so far)
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Every Film That Held the Record for Most Oscar Nominations, Up to ‘Sinners’
Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster shattered a 75-year-old Academy Awards record, joining a small and (mostly) illustrious group
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‘Reminders of Him’ Review: The New Colleen Hoover Adaptation Makes Predictability Sexy
Don’t think of the contrived melodrama getting in Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers’ way as padding — think of it as a tease
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: An Awe-Inspiring Sci-Fi Spectacle, Fueled by Ryan Gosling’s Star Power
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, directing their first film in 12 years, have returned with a crowd-pleasing wonder
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‘War Machine’ Review: Giant Alan Ritchson Fights Giant Robot in Fun-Size Sci-Fi Film
The latest Netflix original dares to ask the question: What if they remade “Predator” with a giant mecha, and no smarts?
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‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley Is a Scream in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gothic Gangster Romance
Gyllenhaal’s glorious, invigorating “Zombie and Clyde” co-stars Christian Bale as one of the best Frankenstein Monsters
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‘Hoppers’ Review: Pixar’s Beaver-Centric Sci-Fi Comedy Is Dam Good
It took 17 years, but someone finally made a great “Avatar” movie — and it’s Daniel Chong’s “Hoppers”
