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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‘In the Hand of Dante’ Review: Oscar Isaac’s Julian Schnabel Collab Is Too Self-Serious to Be Taken Seriously
Venice Film Festival: The Oscar-nominated filmmaker debuts a bizarre saga of crime and reincarnation
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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Review: A Hit Horror Franchise Gives Up the Ghost
The final “Conjuring” movie starring the Warrens is a generic haunted house story with a half-satisfying finale
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: Sebiye Behtiyar Captivates in Bing Liu’s Quietly Enormous Immigrant Love Story
Her breakout performance anchors Liu’s first narrative feature following his 2018 documentary “Minding the Gap”
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review: Peter Dinklage Crushes It While Crushing Heads
Macon Blair’s stylishly scuzzy reboot of the cult-classic, ultraviolent superhero should never have been shelved
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‘Megadoc’ Review: Warts-and-All Doc Reveals How Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Became a Mega-flop-olis
Venice Film Festival: The behind-the-scenes film about Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million dream project celebrates artistic risk, without pretending it paid off
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‘Caught Stealing’ Review: Darren Aronofsky Does a Tonal About-Face With Austin Butler Comedic Thriller
Is this really the same filmmaker behind “Black Swan,” “Mother!” and “The Whale”?
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‘La grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Presents the President, Italian Style
Venice Film Festival: The director of “The Great Beauty” envisions an even greater beauty — power, for once, driving a man sane
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‘The Roses’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman Get Thorny in Deftly Funny Remake
Cumberbatch and Colman get married, get angry, and get revenge in Jay Roach’s take on ‘The War of the Roses’
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The 15 Best Action Movie Sequels
When they absolutely have to get their butts kicked for the second, third or even sixth time, these sequels get the job done
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‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed vs. Evil Corporations, Just the Way We Like It
“Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie returns with a painstakingly crafted — and truly modern — paranoid thriller
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‘Eenie Meanie’ Review: Samara Weaving Guns It in Hulu’s Above Average Elmore Leonard Riff
Writer-director Shawn Simmons’ debut feature has snappy dialogue, a cool car chase and a great cast — but it ain’t “Out of Sight”
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‘The Map That Leads to You’ Review: Ship This Amazon Romance Back Home
Lasse Hallström’s latest tearjerker is an attractive sightseeing tour of various red flags
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‘East of Wall’ Review: Kate Beecroft’s Sundance Sensation Isn’t Horsing Around
Real-life ranchers Tabatha and Porshia Zimiga play themselves, spectacularly, in Kate Beecroft’s first feature
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‘Red Sonja’ Review: A Solid Pilot Episode (Unfortunately, It’s a Movie)
M.J. Bassett’s reboot of the classic comic book hero improves on the 1985 film, but its low budget holds it back
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‘Nobody 2’ Review: Bob Odenkirk Kills It (and Countless Human Beings) All Over Again
Imagine a National Lampoon vacation if Chevy Chase was a badass mass murderer — the “Nobody” sequel is just as awesome as that sounds
