Bilge Ebiri

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L.A. Weekly, New York Magazine (Vulture), The New York Times, Village Voice
For 1,178 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bilge Ebiri's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Cyrano
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 711 out of 1178
  2. Mixed: 364 out of 1178
  3. Negative: 103 out of 1178
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    Like being asphyxiated in a ball pit filled with candy, the experience of watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is at once kaleidoscopic and nerve-wracking. It pantomimes the hallmarks of a good time, with a fast, forced cheeriness; the flashing lights, bright colors, sparkly design, and subplot-happy narrative are there to hold our attention and charm us, but they accomplish the opposite, instead making us worry about what we’re missing.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Scream 7
    The first Scream skewered Hollywood cynicism. The latest embodies it.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Rosebush Pruning
    Rosebush Pruning tries to be about something while pretending not to be about anything at all; it’s somehow both too stupid and too cool for the room.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    The pieces are in place — detestable villain, likable cast — but Now You Don’t can’t muster up the energy or the wit to make us care one lick about what’s happening onscreen.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Not scary enough to thrill, funny enough to charm, or clever enough to convince, I Know What You Did Last Summer isn’t just forgettable. It’s actively irritating.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Karate Kid: Legends
    There’s plenty of talent involved here, but the film fails to cohere on a basic level. Yes, it’s a legacyquel, says so right there in the title, but did it have to be so lazy? Especially in a world where Cobra Kai exists?
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    The Electric State
    There’s something truly off-putting about The Electric State’s palette of junk and colorless branded robots. By trying to give this world such weight and grit, the filmmakers have doubled down on its ugliness.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Captain America: Brave New World
    The notion of the self-doubting hero is nothing new. Still, it might have been interesting to pursue, had it been handled here with anything resembling wit, or intelligence, or depth.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Love Hurts
    Love Hurts feels like it might have once been something, but in its current iteration it exists basically as a series of fight scenes stitched together with the thinnest of narratives. That wouldn’t be such a bad thing — indeed, it could have been a great thing — if the action was in any way inventive or engaging.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Reagan
    Reagan is pure hagiography, but it’s not even one of those convincing hagiographies that pummel you into submission with compelling scenes that reinforce their subject’s greatness. Sean McNamara’s film has slick surfaces, but it’s so shallow and one-note that it actually does Ronald Reagan a disservice.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    Jackpot!
    The real problem with Jackpot! (aside from the inept direction, the unfunny script, and the irritating characters) is that the whole film indulges in a kind of misanthropy that would require a lot more thought and ballsiness to pull off.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Borderlands
    This movie feels like it’s been shredded to bits, stripped clean of personality and character and coherence, presumably in an effort to get it short enough to sneak in some additional screening times.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Bob Marley: One Love
    The result is a shallow picture book populated with cutouts where people should be.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    Crumbling under the weight of its own visionary grandiosity, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is a series of amazing-looking sets and costumes and effects looking for a story, characters, emotion — really, anything that might raise the pulse.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Wish
    Unfortunately, Wish manages to be none of the things it wants to be. It is neither evocative enough of the past to work as a tribute, nor irreverent or inventive or just plain funny enough to justify its constant but half-hearted callouts. It’s the ultimate cop-out — a lifeless, uninspiring mess of bland brand management.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Five Nights at Freddy's
    Five Nights at Freddy’s, the movie, is the kind of hollowed-out exercise in atrociousness that pretty much forces you to mull other things, be they what you’re having for dinner, the decline of American community, or the heat death of the universe.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    AGGRO DR1FT
    Eventually, the oppressive sameness of everything becomes stultifying — which to me feels like a death blow for something so self-consciously experimental and wannabe visionary.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    The look of Ruby Gillman has a TV-cartoon cheapness, but its frames are cluttered with all manner of objects and elements of odd design, almost as if the filmmakers hope we won’t notice how basic and uninspired everything looks.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    It’s not spectacular enough to impress us, nor intimate enough to move us. It’s just kind of there — ready to be consumed and forgotten.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an atrocious movie, but it’s atrocious in a way that Marvel movies rarely are.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Where the Crawdads Sing
    As the grown-up Kya, Edgar-Jones is perhaps best at conveying this young woman’s wounded inner life; that speaks to the actress’s talents. However, she never really feels like someone who emerged from this world, but rather one who was dropped into it; that speaks to the clunky filmmaking.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Cha Cha Real Smooth
    What’s ultimately so disappointing about Cha Cha Real Smooth is its shallow vision of growing up, which might explain why the protagonist does so little of it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Jurassic World Dominion
    It’s frantic yet lifeless, chaotic yet pro forma. A thorough lack of care emanates from the screen.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    Firestarter
    Perhaps what’s most dispiriting about this Firestarter is how visually impoverished it is.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    The Adam Project
    It’s an assemblage of ideas from other popular films that just hangs there with little cohesion. It’s like watching a movie that hasn’t been made yet.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Jungle Cruise
    The clarity of its aspirations just makes the film’s downfall that much more pathetic, like a baseball player pointing to the home run he’s about to hit and then completely whiffing and landing on his ass.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Bilge Ebiri
    Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
    If we absolutely must have G.I. Joe movies, surely they shouldn’t be this joyless.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Wrath of Man
    Wrath of Man could have been salvaged had it delivered on some decent action sequences, but once such sequences come, they tend to be either lifeless or unintelligible or both.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Bilge Ebiri
    Tom & Jerry
    Tom and Jerry is so busy, so desperately unfunny, so clunkily cacophonous that it makes you long for the simple, brain-numbing charms of the one thing it pretty much refuses to give you: a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 10 Bilge Ebiri
    Me You Madness
    All Me You Madness has to offer are poorly written rants, indifferently staged action, and ill-conceived comedy. In the end, it doesn’t even deliver on the madness.
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