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).
Experience:
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‘Melania’ Review: A Tedious, Criminally Shallow Propaganda Puff Piece
The “Rush Hour” director returns with a shameful cinematic suck-up masquerading as a real documentary
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‘Shelter’ Review: Jason Statham Is at His Action Star Best in Formulaic but Gripping Thriller
Jason Statham? He Jason Stathams, Jason Stathamly
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‘The AI Doc’ Review: Unproductive Both-Sides Documentary Is Too Little, Too Late
Sundance 2026: The Oscar-winning director of “Navalny” peers into the future of technology and humanity — and makes it about him
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‘Killer Whale’ Review: Aquatic Horror-Thriller Simply Serves Its Porpoise
Survival’s a beach in Jo-Anne Brechin’s familiar, but well orca-strated “when animals attack” B-movie
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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Nia DaCosta’s Freaky Sequel Puts the Brains Back in Eating Brains
The “28 Days Later” franchise has evolved into a trippy, biblical battle between soulful science and heartless religion
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‘Primate’ Review: You’ll Go Apesh-t for This Killer Chimpanzee Movie
Johannes Roberts’ excellent, ultraviolent thriller with Oscar winner Troy Kotsur goes totally bananas
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‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Review: Good Post-Apocalyptic Thriller, Bad Movie About Greenland
Gerard Butler returns in an above-average sequel to the above-average 2020 sleeper about surviving a planet-wide disaster
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‘The Dutchman’ Review: Amiri Baraka’s Controversial Play Gets Lost in Film Nightmare
André Holland and Kate Mara star in an ambitious update of the award-winning classic — but the meta-horror twist is a misfire
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The Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025
Indies that pushed the boundaries of cinema itself, comedies that gave us a much needed giggle, and many more
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The Best Action Movies of 2025
Demon hunters, demon slayers, hired guns and only one superhero make our list of the most badass films of the year
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The Best Thriller Movies of 2025
It was a good year for films about paranoia, kidnapping and murder!
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‘The Plague’ Review: If Kubrick and Cronenberg Made an After School Special
Joel Edgerton co-stars in Charlie Polinger’s hypnotically hellish debut feature about children engaging in psychological torture
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‘Anaconda’ Review: Paul Rudd and Jack Black Put the ‘Meh’ in Meta-Comedy
Filmmakers rebooting the 1997 monster movie “Anaconda” are attacked by real giant snakes, which sounds more fun than it is
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The Best Cast Movies of 2025
The Oscars are now honoring the often misunderstood art of casting, and these films deserve to be on the short list (or were tragically left out)
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‘Song Sung Blue’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson Make Somewhat Beautiful Noise
Neil Diamond cover band Lightning & Thunder gets their own Hollywood biopic, which plays familiar tunes, but plays them well
