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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‘A Dog’s Perfect Christmas’ Review: The Dog Lives This Time! We Repeat, the Dog Lives!
The third “A Dog’s [Blank]” movie ditches the reincarnation angle and replaces it with familiar “Netflix Original Christmas” vibes
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‘The Cat in the Hat’ Review: Warner Bros. Waters Down Dr. Seuss’ Ode to Anarchy
Bill Hader stars in an animated film that transforms the classic, anarchic picture book into a forgettable and safe endorsement of the status quo
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‘The Last Temptation of Becky’ Review: This Badass Antifa Franchise Deserves a Bigger Budget
Lulu Wilson has Regina George’s snark and Jason Voorhees’ homicidal mania in the latest wildly entertaining, absurdly violent “Becky” sequel
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Patrick Stewart’s 25 Greatest ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Episodes
The late, great Patrick Stewart gave many powerful performances across 176 episodes and four movies, but these episodes made him legendary
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The 50 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century So Far, Ranked
The scariest movies that defined and redefined the modern horror genre – and the ones that simply scared the pants off of us
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‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: World War II Football Movie Does Manly Things in a Manly Way
“Friday Night Lights” and “Lone Survivor” director Peter Berg makes a movie your dad and/or granddad will love
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‘Love Language’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Dazzles in This Top-Shelf Rom-Com
Anthony Ramos and Manny Jacinto fill out the love triangle in Joey Power’s smart, sweet film about a lovelorn author who ghostwrites wedding vows
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‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: Jenna Ortega’s Defective Robot Movie Struggles With Human Emotions
Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s sci-fi novel, about a naive robot who worships the sun, is a three-hanky movie that can’t count to three
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‘Clayface’ Review: DC’s Gross-Out Monster Movie Is Mostly Effective
Tom Rhys Harries plays a disfigured actor who becomes an evil shapeshifting flesh pile in James Watkins’ homage to classic horror heavies
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
