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:
-
‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ Review: Legal Drama About Anna Nicole Smith’s Physician Makes an Unconvincing Case
Kal Penn plays Dr. Sandeep Kapoor in this subpar biopic, which has an off-putting and dismissive attitude about the late supermodel’s death
-
‘Sacrifice’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans Throw Themselves Into Tiresome Netflix Original
A neurotic movie star gets kidnapped by a volcano-worshipping cult in Romain Gavras’ film that thinks it’s about something
-
‘Crawlers’ Review: Hey, There’s a Spider On Your Back: The Movie
Arachnophobes beware! Matilda Lutz gets trapped in an apartment complex with thousands of deadly wall crawlers in this fiendishly fun flick
-
‘Street Fighter’ Review: Ridiculous Video Game Movie K.O.’s Your Sanity
Kitao Sakurai’s kaleidoscopic fight flick is so brash, screwy and fetishistic, it’s either incomprehensible or a total blast
-
‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Elizabeth Holmes Exposé Is the Documentary to End All Documentaries
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim dip their film into an existential vortex, challenging the concept of truth — and a whole cinematic medium
-
‘Whalefall’ Review: Austin Abrams’ Claustrophobic Survival Tale Is a Whale of a Time
The “Resident Evil” star endures extreme body horror while working through daddy issues — again — after he’s eaten by a sperm whale in Brian Duffield’s latest
-
‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Fantasy Epic Is One of the Most Astonishing Animated Movies Ever Made
The stop-motion adventure, directed by Travis Knight, is so ambitious and intricate that it’s hard to even fathom
-
‘Other Mommy’ Review: Jessica Chastain’s Terrifying Performance Proves Hell Is Mother People
The Oscar winner plays a mother protecting her daughter from an evil doppelgänger in Rob Savage’s extremely uneven, but mostly scary shocker
-
‘Animals’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Netflix Thriller Has Zero Highs, Many Lows
Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson co-star in a suspenseless kidnapping yarn that’s so derivative, it’s kind of embarrassing
-
‘Tenzing’ Review: Glossy Mountaineering Biopic Gives Them Summit to Talk About
Tom Hiddleston and Genden Phuntsok star in an old-fashioned, inspirational drama about the first successful expedition to the top of Mount Everest
-
‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Review: Apple’s Original Action Comedy Goes Vroom Vroom, Pow, Insert Joke
John Cena, Jessica Biel and a surprisingly invested ensemble cast transform this toy commercial into a genial time-waster
-
‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Network’ Sequel Isn’t Worth Sharing
Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong star in a generic journalistic potboiler that underlines Sorkin’s biggest storytelling flaws
-
‘Beware Boiúna’ Review: A Really, Really Scary Movie About a Really, Really Big Snake
Jessica Rothe and Kiana Madeira try to survive a killer Amazon god
-
‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Gives 110% in This Powerless, Self-Adulating Claptrap
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s smug, self-aware social commentary plays like a bad ‘SNL’ sketch with delusions of grandeur
-
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Review: One of the Great Godzilla Sequels, but Not One of the Great Godzilla Films
NYFF: The ambitious follow-up to Takashi Yamazaki’s Oscar-winner ‘Godzilla Minus One’ has the same problems as every other sequel in the series
