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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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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Seven Years After Conquering the World, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Is Now Just a Movie | Commentary
It will always be epic and it will probably always be fun, but to get the full experience of Marvel’s second most popular film you had to be there
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‘Unabomber’ Review: Netflix’s Unfocused Ted Kaczynski Thriller Is a Dud
Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley and Russell Crowe star in a true crime drama that tries to be everything but doesn’t amount to much
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‘Heart of the Beast’ Review: Brad Pitt and His Dog Pull at Your Heartstrings in Rough Terrain
A pet and his vet tough it out through the Alaskan wilderness in David Ayer’s emotional, mostly effective survival drama
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‘The Love Hypothesis’ Review: Charming Amazon Romance Sticks to the Formula
Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman fake a relationship — for the sake of science! — in Claire Scanlon’s endearingly familiar love story
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‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: A Sensational New Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles captivate the screen in Georgia Oakley’s earthy interpretation of the classic romance
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‘The Debut’ Review: Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti Hog the Spotlight
TIFF 2026: Writer/director Jesse Eisenberg returns with an unbelievable ode to community theater — but not the good kind of unbelievable
