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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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: This Is What You Get When You Buy the Original From Temu
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are back for a sequel that doesn’t deserve them
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‘The Sheep Detectives’ Review: Listen Up, Sheeple! This Ewe-Dunnit Is Cozy as Flock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and Chris O’Dowd try to solve Hugh Jackman’s murder, but there’s just one problem — they’re all sheep
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‘Animal Farm’ Review: What the Cluck Was Andy Serkis Thinking?
The new, all-star version of George Orwell’s classic, depressing allegory adds a new villain based on Elon Musk and a happy Hollywood ending
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‘I Swear’ Review: Sweet, Sensitive John Davidson Biopic Proves the Genre Still Matters
Robert Aramayo gives a stirring performance in this inspiring drama about the Scottish Tourette syndrome activist
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‘Apex’ Review: Charlize Theron Can’t Reach Great Heights in Middling Netflix Thriller
Taron Egerton hunts the Oscar winner for sport in the Australian wilderness, which sounds more exciting than it is
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‘Michael’ Review: Frustrating Michael Jackson Biopic Makes You Want to Scream
Jaafar Jackson eerily embodies his real-life uncle in a film that remembers the time, but doesn’t look at the man in the mirror
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The 10 Best Mummy Movies of All Time, Ranked
All the greatest movies about mummified remains, whether they’re scary, funny, or deathly serious
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‘Roommates’ Review: Mediocre Netflix Buddy Comedy Is Almost a Good Horror Film
Sadie Sandler and Chloe East are college besties who descend into paranoia and misery in this unusual Happy Madison comedy
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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
