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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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Shape of Water
    It speaks both to del Toro’s confidence and generosity that, having designed this world so thoroughly, he essentially hands the whole thing over to Hawkins — not just so she can breathe life into her own character, but so she can conjure all the emotional connections required for any of this to work on any level. And my god, how she runs with it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Theeb
    The film remains grounded in the elemental, the practical, and the real. That’s not to say it isn't beautiful.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Sorry We Missed You
    Well-researched and highly detailed in how it lays bare the empty promises of the gig economy and the ruthless techno-feudalism of e-commerce, Sorry We Missed You is a movie that will infuriate you. But what makes it one of Loach’s best isn’t just its rage (which is plentiful) but its compassion (which is overwhelming).
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Baby Driver
    Baby Driver is an almost perfect pastiche, a thoroughly enjoyable object. But sue me, I kind of miss the losers of the Cornetto Trilogy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The King and the Mockingbird
    A truly strange, wondrous beast. It has the playful humor and charm of a children’s movie, but its design is dark and unsettling.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Traveling Light
    The movie gathers force as it proceeds and delivers one final shock toward the end. It’s not a twist, exactly, but rather a development that makes you reconsider what you’ve just seen — suggesting that those who sometimes seem to care the least about the world are, secretly, the ones most overwhelmed by it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Somewhere amid the film’s ornate imagery and deliriously irreverent humor, we might begin to realize that we’re watching a terrifying, incisive satire about the ways that a life lived online makes monsters of us all.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Democrats
    It truly is a movie about politics, and it’s among the more mesmerizing ones you’ll see — even if you know very little about Zimbabwe itself.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Walking Out
    It’s a beautiful movie about unthinkable things.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Anselm
    The way he films Kiefer, Wenders finds more drama in gestures such as these than he might in biographical detail. This is art that dares to live in the world, and Anselm is itself a wonderfully alive work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Beyond the Lights
    Beyond the Lights is a deft, gorgeous movie. For all its honesty, it’s never slow, and for all its criticism of the music industry, it’s never finger-wagging.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Killers of the Flower Moon
    For all its extravagant running time (three hours and 26 minutes!), its big-swing history lessons, and its tale of an Old West giving way to the regimentation of a modern police force, Killers of the Flower Moon turns out to be that simplest and slipperiest of things: the story of a marriage. And a twisted, tragic one at that.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Fits
    For all the film's aestheticism, there's a clarity to this child's dilemma — conveyed ably by Hightower, who is a unique kind of actress.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Civil War
    What makes Alex Garland’s Civil War so diabolically clever is the way that it both revels in and abhors our fascination with the idea of America as a battlefield.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog by infusing it with humor, verve, and visual charm.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Synonyms
    That’s part of the beauty of this film: It games out very real, very human impulses to their surreal breaking points, only to uncover even greater truths.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Pig
    As it proceeds, it expands its vision and compassion, even as it de-escalates the tension. It’s not about the thing it’s about, except that it ultimately is totally about the thing it’s about.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Beguiled
    Coppola’s a master at taking something that could be portentous and rendering it delicate, thereby reclaiming its depth.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Lost Bus
    The picture thus combines the excitement of an old-school disaster spectacle with a fly-on-the-wall portrait of institutions struggling to function in the face of a calamity. The effect is singular: We enjoy the thrill ride immensely, but it’s the realism that sticks with us. Movies end, but the fires are here to stay.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Half of It
    In most good rom-coms you fall in love with the characters; in The Half of It you fall in love with their sheer longing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    The Meyerowitz Stories doesn’t quite have the drive and stylistic panache of other recent Baumbach efforts, but it makes up for that with sincerity, as well as moments of subtle satirical genius.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Taste of Things
    Perhaps most importantly, The Taste of Things offers a perfect match between Hung’s artistic impulses and his subject matter.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Force
    The Force is hypnotic and eye-opening. Nicks has a style that is both experiential and ethereal: From its ground-level immersion in the minutiae of police work to its sweeping helicopter shots of the city at night, The Force has the texture of a Michael Mann film combined with the clarity of a Frederick Wiseman documentary.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    The off-kilter, absurdist vibe of the picture is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror: The whole movie is about the ways that cruelty and injustice become codified. Sometimes, the only way to preserve your sanity is to go a little insane yourself.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    The Rider
    Zhao takes a different approach, privileging the narrative, the poetry, and the realism in equal measure, blending them together to create something astonishingly powerful.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Grand Tour
    The film returns us to a childlike gaze, marveling at a world alive with possibility, where every sight lives on a continuum of meaning.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Once Within a Time
    Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Vortex
    There’s an unflinching, near-clinical relentlessness to the picture, but therein lies its compassion and empathy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Bilge Ebiri
    Every Little Thing
    Before our eyes, Every Little Thing comes to embody the fragile yet uncontainable mystery of all life.
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