Bilge Ebiri

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For 1,180 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 point 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 1180
  2. Mixed: 366 out of 1180
  3. Negative: 103 out of 1180
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)
    The true revelation lies in the whole, in the gathering sense that life is full of change and that nothing ever really resolves itself. That might also be why this particular anthology works so well, and also why it lingers afterwards.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Mia Madre
    Mia Madre may be a delicate film, but don't be surprised if, in the end, the cumulative power of its humanity obliterates you.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Prisoners of the Ghostland
    Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland throws so much extreme weirdness and violence at us that we might overlook the fact that there’s method to its madness: Beneath the craziness and cacophony lies a tender, tragic tale of emotional paralysis and a civilization eating away at itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Dope
    Dope isn’t perfect — it’s got a couple too many endings, and it loses the romantic subplot for a distressingly long time. But it moves with amazing energy, the dialogue and soundtrack and imagery a constant stream of pop-culture references, in-jokes, and digressions.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
    The film Segan has made is very much its own thing. It’s a twilight fable of a city that’s changing, whose spirit remains distinct and grand and full of mystery, much like the remarkable actor at its center.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Purge: Anarchy
    It's also breathtaking to watch a throwaway studio sequel break its corporate chains before your very eyes and become something thrilling and dangerous and alive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Bugonia
    By the time Bugonia is over, with a series of beautiful and haunting images that seem to come out of nowhere, we understand that beneath its bemused dispassion lies a deep longing for connection.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    Come to think of it, these are all great roles — for Statham, Plaza, and Hartnett. Everybody in Operation Fortune — yes, even Ritchie — seems to be having fun. Sometimes, that’s all you need.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Air
    Air might seem at first like a ridiculous idea for a movie, but it is in fact an ingenious one.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Cop Car
    Cop Car does enough things so well for so long that to quibble with its finale feels churlish. This is a film very much worth seeing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Red Army
    Gabe Polsky's ingenious, touching documentary Red Army looks at the other side of this myth, the seemingly faceless, allegedly robotic players who made up the Soviet team. There, Polsky finds a story even more epic and powerful than the Miracle on Ice.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Gospel of Eureka
    The easygoing tone of The Gospel of Eureka — sometimes contemplative, sometimes cheerful — distinguishes it from many other documentaries about timely social issues.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    Eurovision gives us an inspired and hilarious match between subject and stars, all driven by melodrama: The glorious, over-the-top theatricality of the song contest makes an ideal stage for Ferrell’s brand of high-highs and low-lows.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Golden Dream
    Don’t expect incendiary topicality from The Golden Dream; this is more poetry than politics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Gleason
    So while Gleason is the slick, moving, sincere documentary you might expect from this material, there’s something else going on beneath the Oscar-friendly polish: This is a remarkably physical film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Second Mother
    It’s a drama, and it smartly uses its little moments of humiliation to open our eyes to a world of delicate, but deep, injustice.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    BlackBerry
    It’s the comic energy generated by the triumvirate of Howerton, Baruchel, and Johnson that really drives BlackBerry, but Johnson and his co-writer Matthew Miller also find lively ways to dramatize the technological concepts at play.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Queen of Earth
    Queen of Earth is a psychodrama shot like a horror movie — "Persona" meets "The Shining." Right down to the haunting, minimalist score (by Keegan DeWitt) that’s perched dangerously, wonderfully between spooky and lyrical.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    TÁR
    We know where Tár is headed from pretty much its opening scenes, but that doesn’t mean that the film shouldn’t still surprise and shock us. Luckily, this is where Blanchett comes in, turning the movie from a moderately interesting and topical one into something quite beautiful. She brings the energy and the sensation that much of the rest of the film lacks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Huda's Salon
    Abu-Assad has made his share of films about the cruel absurdity of life under Israeli occupation, but here he lets all sides have it
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Heretic
    Grant’s turn in Heretic is not just a great role that commands attention, it’s also a part that requires a dash of that Hugh Grant charm to pull off.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
    You walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Greenland
    It’s just escapist enough to fill our disaster-flick needs, but don’t be surprised if Ric Roman Waugh’s film sometimes feels like too much, especially in the middle of an ongoing real-life calamity. To put it a simpler way: Greenland is not just effective; sometimes it’s too effective.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Mandy
    The film’s two sides — the soft, textured reverie of its first half, and the surreal, angular savagery of its second — exist in perpetual balance; one would die without the other.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Me and You
    For all the limitations of its setting and palette, this is a gorgeous, visually exciting movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Louder Than Bombs
    The tale isn't new, nor are the characters, but director Joachim Trier's stylistic and narrative dexterity demands attention: He possesses that rare ability to deconstruct his material without denying us the simple beauties of a well-told story.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Resurrection
    About halfway through Resurrection, Rebecca Hall delivers a nearly eight-minute monologue about her character’s past that is so riveting, so mystifying and terrifying that you shouldn’t be surprised if it shows up in every acting class sometime in the near future.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    Goodnight Mommy
    Goodnight Mommy is a very disquieting, very suspenseful film, but proceed with caution.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Bilge Ebiri
    The Ugly Stepsister
    We know, of course, that none of this will end well, and Blichfeldt gives us every gnarly, disgusting consequence in agonizing detail, be it vomit, blood, severed body parts, or some combination thereof. Nevertheless, the film is beautiful in its own way, like a Scandinavian fairy-tale riff on Italian giallo, narratively disquieting but cinematically exhilarating.
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