William Bibbiani is a professional 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. He 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 medias).
Experience:
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‘Fountain of Youth’ Review: Apple’s Epic Asks, ‘What If Indiana Jones Was Annoying?’
John Krasinski and Natalie Portman hunt for treasure in a tedious ‘Raiders’ knockoff with an insufferable hero
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Review: Longer and Not as Good, Just the Way Disney Likes It
Disney’s latest live-action remake may be inferior and it may even be pointless — but it’s also not bad
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‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Nobody Wes Andersons Like Wes Anderson
Cannes 2025: A tycoon finds God and a nun finds materialism in yet another impeccable, funny, meaningful Anderson diorama
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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Horrifies in A24’s Tale of Death and Abuse
The Oscar-nominated star plays a foster mother with unholy plans for her kids in the second film from the directors of “Talk to Me”
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‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Review: Glorious Gorefest Is 100% Pure Cinema
The sixth “Final Destination” film delivers awe-inspiring, demonically funny shocks — a night at the movies doesn’t get much better
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‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: A Tribute to Tom Cruise by Tom Cruise
Epic stunts balance out the convoluted script and shameless adulation of its producer and star
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‘Summer of 69’ Review: Ecstatically Funny Teen Sex Comedy Deserves Better Than Hulu Streaming
Jillian Bell’s directorial debut is a drop-dead funny “Risky Business” riff that would have killed in theaters
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‘Fight or Flight’ Review: Josh Hartnett Is So Committed It Hurts in Bonkers (and Awesome) ‘John Wick’ Send-Up
Hartnett re-solidifies his kooky star power in this madcap action-comedy, where he fights dozens of killers on an airplane
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‘Absolute Dominion’ Review: You Gotta Fight! For the Right! Theoooo-logy!
Lexi Alexander’s latest is an ambitious sci-fi martial arts tournament movie where the winner picks which religion rules the world
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‘Juliet & Romeo’ Review: Tryhard Attempt to Make Shakespeare ‘Cool’ Achieves the Opposite
The umpteenth adaptation of the bard’s most famous play exchanges the original, classic dialogue for forgettable pop songs
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‘Lavender Men’ Review: This Quasi-Historical, Fabulously Theatrical Film Smashes Expectations
Lovell Holder and Roger Q. Mason’s stage play adaptation wrestles with history, examines modern love and imagines a queer, powerful Abraham Lincoln
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‘Rust’ Review: The Specter of a Real-Life Death Haunts This Tragic Western
Alec Baldwin stars as an aging gunslinger in a melancholy saga, filled with inescapable reminders of the on-set tragedy
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All 28 Live-Action Horror Movies Based on a Video Game, Ranked
How does “Until Dawn” compare to the many – and we do mean many – bizarre, and often disappointing adaptations of the past?
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‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: Marvel’s B-Team Gets an A for Effort
Florence Pugh headlines a super team full of has-beens — and it’s the first MCU movie in years that doesn’t feel like a hack job
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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi Are Sexy, Queer Gamblers in Gentle 1950s Drama
The 1950s were awful, but this movie isn’t
