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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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Review: Scary as Hell, Except for the Mummy Parts
Lee Cronin’s follow-up to “Evil Dead Rise” is basically just “Evil Dead Rise” with mummy stuff — but hey, that’s not so bad
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‘Lorne’ Review: Everything You Already Knew About ‘SNL’ and Didn’t Need to Ask
To quote the Church Lady, Morgan Neville’s new doc about “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels ‘isn’t that special’
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‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel Are Tortured and Poetic in a Taylor Swift-Inspired Ghost Story
David Lowery’s ambitious and bizarre two-hander is about a pop star, her costume designer and their supernatural bad blood
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‘ChaO’ Review: Human-Mermaid Love Story Is a Lush Wonder
Yasuhiro Aoki’s sci-fi animated film is almost as sweet as it is gorgeous
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‘Thrash’ Review: Not a Great Killer Shark Movie, but You Could Netflix and Gill
Tommy Wirkola’s cheesy “sharks in a hurricane” Netflix exclusive is just entertaining enough to make you put down your phone
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‘Exit 8’ Review: A Freakily Liminal Horror Movie That Gives Video Game Adaptations a Good Name
Genki Kawamura’s excellent adaptation of The Exit 8 mines a simple concept for shock and substance
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‘Faces of Death’ Review: A Bloodcurdling, Damning New Take on the Ultimate Cult Horror Curio
Daniel Goldhaber’s terrifying reboot knows only a monster would actually reboot ‘Faces of Death’ — and that’s the whole point
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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
